Chap. 1096.—An ACT for the relief of Charles P. Ross, a\Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Charles P. Ross, a private Confederate soldier, of company
D, fifty-first regiment of Virginia volunteers, was a true, faithful, and
eallant soldier during the war, was, and is now, loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disabilities—to-wit:
Infirmity of old age, disability from rheumatism contracted by exposure
during the war, and partial paralysis of the right side, from all of which
causes he is totally disabled from manual labor—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
hustings court for the city of Radford shall examine into the eondition
of the above-named Charles P. Ross, a Confederate soldier, and should
it be that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that
he is now afflicted and is totally unfit and incapacitated for manual
labor, from disabilities incurred during said military service, needy and
poor, and should receive aid from Virginia; and if the hustings court for
the citv of Radford 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 the said Charles P. Ross on the pension
list and pay him annually the sum of thirty dollars on and after the
first day of April, nineteen hundred.

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