Chap. 971.—An ACT for the relief of Wm. Ayres, a disabled Confederate soldier
of Patrick county.

Approved March 4, 1898.

Whereas William Ayres, a disabled Confederate soldier of Patrick
county, Virginia, was a member of Company H, of the fifty-first Vir-
ginia regiment, and was a true and gallant soldier in the late war; was
true to Virginia; and

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

In consequence of a wound received in his leg in the engagement at
Leetown, Virginia, he is now helpless:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Patrick shall examine into the condition of the above-named
William Ayres, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he was
true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
afilicted and incapacitated for manual labor; that he is needy and poor,
and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Patrick
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 William Ayres 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.