Chap. 934.—An ACT for relicf of L. P. Vaught.

Approved March 4, 1898.

Whereas L. P. Vaught, a disabled Confederate soldier of ‘‘ Stonewall
brigade,”’ 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 disabilities—to-wit:

General debility from wounds received in battle at Second Manassas
and Antietam; also from total blindness in one eye and the other eye
rapidly failing: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Grayson shall examine into the condition of the above-named
L. P. Vaught, 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
blind in one eye, as stated, and incapacitated for manual labor; that he
is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the
county court of Grayson should send a certificate of the facts to the
auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public ac-
counts is directed to place the name of L. P. Vaught 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.