Chap. 1156.—An ACT for the relief of Jacob H. Rinker.

Approved March 7, 1990.

Whereas Jacol H. Rinker, a disabled Confederate soldier, who is a
resident of Shenandoah county, and has always resided in said county,
and served in the late war; first, as a member of a militia company
commanded by Captain EK. IF. Rinker, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, later was transferred to a volunteer company commanded by
Captain S. Kk. ———_——, of the twenty-third Virginia regiment, cavalry,

and received a gun- -shot wound by ball passing through the top of his

skull, causing a total loss of hearing in one ear and impairing his mental
faculties, so ‘that he is unable to recollect the date he was wounded or
the details connected with the same, but was wounded at the battle of
New Hope, Virginia; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the ceneral assembly of Virginia, That it is gen-
erally known that he was a good and true soldicr, and that he was
wounded as described, but cannot be proven in court in det tail, as all of
his comrades who were with him at the time are dead. The applicant is
now seventy-two years old and needy, and upon proof before the county
court of a general nature establishing the foregoing statements, the said
court shall ‘certify his claim, and the same shall be pk aced on the pension

roll by the auditor of public accounts. and the sum of fifteen dollars shall
be paid the said J. H. Rinker annually.
This act shall be in force from its passage.