Chap. 1060.—An ACT for the relief of R. J. Overton, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas R. J. Overton, sixty vears old, a partially disabled Confed-
erate soldier, of company G, ninth Virginia cavalry, W. IL. F. Lee's
brigade, was a true and brave soldier during the war between the
states, was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from a severe wound in the hip, which
entirely disables one leg, makes it necessary to walk with a crutch all
the time, and causes him more pain and disability than if his leg had
been amputated; and

Whereas he is almost utterly incapacitated from physical labor and
a poor man—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Lunenburg county shall examine into the condition
of said R. J. Overton, a Confederate soldier, and if it shall appear that
he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, that he is now
suffering from a severe wound in the hip, which he received at the
battle of Reams station, on the twenty-first of August, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, and that said wound causes more suffering and as
much disability as the total loss of a leg, that he is therebv incapacitated
from almost all kinds of phvsical labor, that he is needy and _ poor,
and should receive aid from Virginia; and if the county court. of Lunen-
burg shall send a certificate of such facts to the auditor of public
accounts, then the said auditor is directed to place the name of R. J.
Overton on the pension list, and pay him annually on and after the
first dav of April, nineteen hundred, the same amount that he would
be entitled to if he had lost a leg or arm.

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