Chap. 978.—An ACT to place the name of C. L. King, of Washington county, Vir-
ginia, on the pension roll.

Approved March 4, 1898.

Whereas C. L. King, of Washington county, Virginia, who was a mem-
ber of the twenty-seventh North Carolina regiment, Company D, of the
Confederate army, and was severely wounded on May fifteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, in the battle of Spotsylvania courthouse, he be-
ing struck in the knee, the ball ranging down and attacking the marrow
in the bone and lodeing therein, and ‘continuing to work dow n, giving
him great pain, thereby disabling him from the use of said limb and ren-
dering him incapable of supporting himself by labor: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place
the name of the said C. L. King upon the pension roll of Confederate
Virginia soldiers, he to receive an annual pension of fifteen dollars per
year from the public treasury: provided that the facts herein alleged shall
be proved before the county court of Washington county.

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