Chap. 922.—An ACT for relief of Robert R. Wood, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 4, 1898.

Whereas Robert R. Wood, a disabled Confederate soldier of Virginia,
was a true and gallant soldier during the war; was loyal to Virginia;
and

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

From gunshot wound through the hip and partial blindness and de-
bility, resulting from said wound received in battle, and is in poor and
needy circumstances: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Albemarle shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Robert R. Wood, 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 is in needy circumstance and incapacitated for manual labor; that
he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the
county court of Albemarle county should send a certificate of the facts
to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public
accounts 1s directed to place the name of Robert R. Wood on the pen-
sion jist, and pay him annually the sum of fifteen dollars, on and after
the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

This act shall be in force from its passage.