Chap. 1166.—An ACT for the relief of Samuel Coffman, a Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Samuel Coffman, a poor and needy Confederate soldier of
company A, twenty-eighth Virginia volunteers, was a true and gallant
soldier during the war, was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from the following disabilities—to wit:
Was wounded at Gettysburg July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, by a gun-shot wound in the left arm, and from the effects of said
wound he is permanently disabled to a considerable extent in performing
manual labor; that he was also wounded on the sixteenth of June,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by a minie ball in his hip; that he has
not received a pension from the state of Virginia, or any other state;
is not an inmate of the soldiers’ home; and that he has no estate, and
is entirely dependent upon manual labor for a support; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Botetourt shall examine into the condition of the above-named
Samuel Coffman, a Confederate soldier; and should it be he was true and
loyal to Virginia during the war, and that he is now afflicted, and the
affliction is the result of his wounds; and if the county court of Bote-
tourt 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 Samuel Coffman on the pension list, and pay him
annually the sum of fifteen dollars on and after the first day of April,
nineteen hundred.

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