Chap. 744.—An ACT for the relief of James P. Davis, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 3, 18s.

Whereas James P. Davis, a disabled Confederate soldier of Company
D, seventeenth regiment of Virginia inf, intry, was a true and gallant sol-
dier during the late war; was Joval to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now sulte ring from the following disabilities—to-wit:

From paralysis of the right hand and forearm, and is also a great suf-
ferer from chronic rheumatism, contracted while in the military service
of the Confederacy: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Fairfax shall examine into the condition of the above-named
James P. Davis, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he was true
and loyal to Virginia throuch the war, and that he is now afflicted and
in needy circumstances and incapacitated for manual labor by reason of
rheumatism contracted during the war; that he is needy and poor and
should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Fairfax
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 P. Davis 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,

—— Ce CO