Chap. 784.—An ACT forthe relief of Sparrell Mills, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Sparrell Mills, a disabled Confederate soldier of Virginia,
was a true and gallant soldier during the late war; was loyal to Vir-
ginia; and

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

An accident and disease contracted during the war: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly ‘of Vi Irginia, That the county
court of Montgomery county shall examine into the condition of the
above-named Sparrell Mills, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that
he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he 1s now
afflicted and diseased and incapacitated for manual labor, the result of
disease contracted in the war; that he is needy and poor, and should
receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Montgomery county
should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public accounts
of Virginia, as herein set forth, then the auditor of public accounts is
directed to place the name of Sparrell Mills on the pension list, and
pay him annually the sum of fifteen dollars, on and after the first day
of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

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