Chap. 1026.—An ACT forthe relief of John Q. Adams, a Confederate soldier of
Pittsylvania county, Virginia.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John Q. Adams, a gallant Confederate soldier of Shumakcr’s
battery of Danville, Virginia, was a true and gallant soldier during
the Confederate war, was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now paralyzed and not able to make a support for him-
self and wife, who is also afflicted and helpless; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Pittsvlvania shall examine into the condition of the
above-named John Q. Adams, a Confederate soldier, and should it
be that he was true and loval to Virginia, through the war, and that
he is now afflicted and disabled and incapacitated for manual labor,
that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia, and
if the county court of Pittsylvania county 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 John Q. Adams on
the pension list, and pay him annually the sum of fifteen dollars, com-
mencing on and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred.

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