Chap. 789.—An ACT for relief of J.D. Harvey, a one-legged Confederate soldier.
Approved March 3, 1898.

Whereas J. D. Harvey, a gallant Confederate soldier of Company G,
sixth regiment of Virginia cavalry, was a trueand gallant soldier during
the entire war; was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disabili

One leg off, rheumatism, bronchitis.

He enlisted at sixteen years of ave in the Halifax blues (Captain
Grammer): therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virgima, That the county

court of Appomattox shall examine into the condition of the above-

named J. D. Harvey, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he

was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and lost his leg during
the war, and that he is now alllicted 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 Appomattox 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 J. D.
Harvey onthe 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.