Chap. 785.—An ACT for the rehef of Elijah D. Via, a disabled Confederate soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Elijah D. Via, a Confederate soldier of Company H, fifty-
first regiment of Virginia, was a true and gallant soldier during the late
war; was loyal to Virginia; and

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

Loss of a leg since the war, and effects of disease contracted during
the war: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Montgomery county shall examine into the condition of the
above-named Elijah D. Via, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that
he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
afflicted and incapacitated for manual labor, from disease contracted
during the war; that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from
Virginia, and if county court of Pulaski county should send a certificate
of the facts to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the
auditor of public accounts is directed to place the name of Flijah D.
Via on the pension list, and pay him annually the sum of fifteen dol-
lars, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-
e] ight,
"2. This act shall be in force from its passage.