Chap. 825.—An ACT for relief of M. A. Woodson.

Approved Mareh 3, 1898.

Whereas M. A. Woodson, a disabled Confederate soldier of Company
f, was a true and gallant soldier during the war; was loyal to Virginia;
and

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

Was shot and wounded in hand whilst in the service: therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Lunenburg county shall examine into the condition of the
above-named M. A. Woodson, 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 shot and wounded in hand, and incapacitated for
manual labor; that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from
Vireinia, and if the county court of Lunenburg 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 M. A.
Woodson 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.