Chap. 733.—An ACT for relief of James M. Riles, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Approved March 3, 1893.

Whereas James M. Riles, a disabled Confederate soldier of Company
B, twenty-sixth regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and gallant
soldier during the whole war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disability occasioned
by service in the war and now confined to his home entirely helpless
from rheumatism and unable to perform manual labor: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Gloucester shall examine into the condition of the above-named
James M. Riles, 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
entirely helpless from rheumatism as stated above and incapacitated for
manual labor; that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from
Virginia, and if the county court of Gloucester should send a certificate
of the facts to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor
of public accounts is directed to place the name of James M. Riles 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.