Chap. 794.—An ACT for reef of Thomas Jennings, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas Thomas Jennings, a disabled Confederate soldier of Company
C, forty-fifth regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and gallant sol-
dier during the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

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

Disease of lungs and disease of hip joint, contracted in prison at Camp
Morton, Indiana, producing a running sore, and is at this time entirely
disabled from manual labor, being scarcely able to walk: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Grayson shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Thomas Jennings, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he was
true and loval to Virginia through the war, and that he is now afflicted,
anil is incapacitated for manual labor from the causes above recited; that
he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the
county court of Grayson should send a certificate of the facts to the audi-
tor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is
directed to place the naine of Thomas Jennings 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.