Chap. 765.—An ACT for the relief of Charles H. MeAlexiunder, a disabled Con fed-
erate soldier, of Franklin county.

Approved March 3, 1898,

Whereas Charles McAlexander, a disabled Confederate soldier of Com-
pany D, fifty-first regiment of Virginia infantry, was a true and gallant
soldier during the late war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disability—to-wit:

Suffering from a wound received in battle near New Market, Virginia:
therefore,

1. Ie it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Franklin shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Charles H. McAlexander, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that
he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
alllicted and disabled from wounds received in hattle, and incapacitated
for manual labor: that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from
Virginia, and if the county court of Franklin should send a certificate of
the facts to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor
of public aecounts is directed to place the name of Charles H. McAlex-
ander on the pension list, and pay him annually the sum of fifteen dol-
lars, on and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-
elyht.

This aet shall he in foree from its passage.