Chap. 962.—An ACT for the relief of James L. Adams, a disabled Contederate
soldier, of the county of Dickenson.

Approved March 4, 1298.

Whereas James L. Adams, formerly of Franklin, now of Dickenson
county, Virginia, a Confederate soldier of Company ‘‘B,’’ twenty-
fourth Virginia volunteers, was wounded in line of battle at Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania, July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in
his left leg, and captured on the retreat of the Confederates from Gettys-
burg, Pennsylvania, and confined in prison at Fort Delaware, Delaware,
upwards of twenty months, and from said wound and exposures in
Federal prison during the winter of eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
and, whilst the retaliation was going on with the two armies, was s0
disabled by reason of said wound and disease contracted from exposure
in prison, that together has rendered him unable of supporting himself
by labor, and he being fifty-six years old :

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to
place the name of James L. Adams upon the pension roll of Confederate
Virginia soldiers, he to receive an annual pension of fifteen dollars per
year from the public treasurer: provided, that the facts herein alleged
shall be proved before the county court of Dickenson county.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.