Chap. 995.—An ACT to place Thomas J. Fielder, an ex-Confederate soldier, of
Bedford county, on the pension list.

Approved March 4, 1898.

Whereas Thomas J. Fielder, an ex-Confederate soldier, of Bedford
county, while a member of Company A, fifth Virginia regiment, was
wounded in the left thigh in the battle near Harrisonburg, in June, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-two, and in the knee and thigh at the battle of
Fredericksburg, on the thirteenth December, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, and in the foot at the battle of Gettysburg, and in the hand at Ap-
pomattox; and

Whereas, from the effects of these several wounds, the said Thomas J.
Fielder has become partially paralyzed, and is unable to make a support
in consequence of said wounds: 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 made in the preamble to this act are
true, then the said auditor is hereby directed to place the name of the
said Thomas J. Fielder on the pension list with those receiving fifty
dollars a year, and pay him annually that amount.

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