Chap. 1128.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act for the relief of H. T.
Bennet, approved March 5, 1890.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas H. T. Bennet, during the late civil war, when a man of
twenty years of age, entered the army of the Confederate states; and

Whereas during said war in the performance of his duty as a private
in company A, fifty-first regiment’ of Virginia infantry, Wharton’s
brigade, by reason of exposure he contracted the disease of inflammatory
rheumatism, by reason of which he was drawn out of all shape of a
human and was discharged and sent home in the latter part of the war,
and has remained in this deformed condition up to this time, and has
been prevented from performing manual labor during the whole of this
time; and

Whereas since his discharge from the army he has been a citizen
and resident of Virginia all the time; and

Whereas it is right and just that he should receive aid from the
state; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and is hereby, instructed and directed
to enter the name of H. T. Bennet upon the list of disabled soldiers,
and upon proof that he was disabled in said war for the reason stated
herein, and that he still labors under such disability, the auditor shall
issue his warrant on the state treasury in favor of the said H. 'T’.
Bennet for the sum of sixty dollars per annum from the fourth dav of
April, nineteen hundred, until the death of the said H. 'T. Bennet, when
said pension shall cease as to him, pavable out of any moneys in the
treasury appropriated for aid of disabled soldiers.

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