Chap. 1151.—An ACT for the relief of Charles W. Shumaker, a Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Charles W. Shumaker, who was born in the county of
Alleghany, in the state of Virginia, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty- five, and resided in said county continually from that time till the
first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; and

Whereas the said Charles W. Shumaker, during the war between the
states, served from the spring of eighteen hundred and sixty-two to the
close of the war in cichteen hundred and sixty-five as a private in com-
pany D, sixtieth regiment Virginia infantry, Confederate states army;
that while so serving in said army the said Charles W. Shumaker was,
on the ninth day of Mav, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, wounded in
the battle of Clovd’s farm, the wound being a gun-shot wound imme-
diately above the left hip, the ball passing around, partially severing the
spinal cord and coming out above the right hip: that from the effects
of said gun-shot wound he is so disabled from the performance of manual
labor as to render him unable to earn a competent living for himself and
his dependent family; and

Whereas he was on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, granted by the honorable judge of the county court of said
county of Alleghany a certificate entitling him to an annual pension of
fifteen dollars, to be paid out of the treasury of the state of Virginia
under the general pension law; that he received such annual pension
up to and including the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; that
his business of teamster is now carried on principally between the Sweet
Springs, in the county of Monroe, West Virginia, and Alleghany station,
Virginia, and chiefly in the state of Virginia; that in order to provide
a home for his family on his meagre earnings he has been compelled to
locate his family since May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in
said county of Monroe, about one mile from the line of said Alleghany
county, Virginia, and is only temporarily located there; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon the
certification of these facts to the auditor by said judge of said court, the
said Charles W. Shumaker shall be placed on the general Confederate
pension list by the auditor of public accounts, and shall draw annually
the sum of fifteen dollars as if he were a resident of the state of Virginia.

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