Chap. 780.—An ACT for relief of Walter Bo Tughes.,
Approved March 3, 1808,

Whereas Walter B. Hughes, a disabled Confederate soldier of Com-
pany E, thirty-eighth regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and
callant soldier during the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disabilities—to-wit:

From a wound received in battle in the leg, which caused that limb to
perish away until it is not half aslarve as the other, thereby disabling
him to the same extent as if he had lost a leg or an arm: therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Vi irginia, That the county
court of Pittsylvania shall examine into the condition of the above-
named Walter B. Hughes, a Confederate soldier; and should it be’ that
he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
afflicted, as stated above from the effects of his wound, and in needy
circumstances, and incapacitated for manual labor; that he is needy and
poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court. of
Pittsylvania should send a certificate of the facts tothe auditor of public
accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to
place the name of Walter B. Hughes on the pension list, and pay him
annually the sum of fifteen dollars, on and after the first day of April,
el¢hteen hundred and ninety-eizht.

"2. This act shall be in force from its passage.