Chap. 988.—An ACT to place the name of Samuel R. Mead, of Bedford county,
an ex-Cuonfederate soldier, on the pension list.

Approved March 4, 1898.

Whereas Samuel R. Mead, an ex-Confederate soldier of Bedford
county, while in discharge of his duties as such soldier as a member of
Blunt’s battery, Dearing’s battalion of artillery, was wounded in both
legs at the battle of Gettysburg by a minie ball passing through the
bone of the left leg and the right leg, from which wounds he has recently
suffered partial paralysis in one of his legs: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when the
judge of the county court of Bedford county certifies to the auditor of
public accounts that the statements set forth in the preamble of this act
are substantially true, and that the said Samuel R. Mead is entitled to
receive a pension under the provisions of the general pension law of this
state, then the said auditor is hereby directed to place the name of the
said Samuel R. Mead on the pension list, and pay him annually the sum
of fifteen dollars.

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