Chap. 950.—An ACT for the rellef of H. R. Roop, a private Confederate soldier.

Approved March 4, 1808.

Whereas H. R. Roop, a private Confederate soldier of Company F,
eleventh regiment of Virginia volunteers, was a true and gallant soldier
during the war; was loyal to Virginia; and

W hereas he is now suffering from the following disabilitv—to-wit:

Infirmity of old age, disability from two wounds, partial paralysis;
from all of which causes he is totally disabled from manual labor:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Montgomery shall examine into the condition of the above-

named H. R. Roop, 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 totally unfitted and incapacitated for manual labor; that he is
needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county
court of Montgomery should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor
of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is di-
rected to place the name of said H. R. Roop on the pension list, and pav
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.