Chap. 838.—An ACT for the relief of R. W. Read, a Confederate veteran, of
Augusta county.

Approved March 5, 1896.

Whereas R. W. Read, of Augusta county, who was a member of
company A, twenty-first regiment of Virginia infantry of the Con-
federate army, was badly wounded through the left foot on the
twenty-fifth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in front of
Petersburg, Virginia, which wound has entirely incapacitated him
for manual labor, for which he is now a beneficiary of the pension
act to the amount of thirty dollars; and

Whereas said R. W. Read was a gallant soldier from the very com-
mencement of the late war up to the day he received the wound
aforesaid, experiencing during that time constant and laborious ser-
vice and great exposure, from the effect of which he has for years been
suffering, until now he is entirely broken down and almost totally
blind: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if the
said R. W. Read produces satisfactory evidence to the county court
of Augusta county as to his condition as above stated, he is hereby
authorized to apply for an increase of his said pension to fifty dol-
lars per annum, which, if granted by said court, shall be certified tc
the auditor of public accounts.

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