Chap. 1173.—An ACT for the relief of J. R. Garland, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7%, 1900.

Whereas J. R. Garland, a-disabled Confederate soldier, is suffering
from old age and pbverty, and was a true and gallant soldier during the
war, and was loyal to Virginia; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the gener ral assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Albemarle shall examine into the condition of the
above-named J. R. Garland, a Confederate soldier, and should it be
found that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war, and that
he is now afflicted and disabled, and incapacitated for manual labor
by reason of injury, disease, or old age; that he is poor and needy and
should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Albemarle
shall send a certificate of the fact to the auditor of public accounts in
Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to place the
name of J. R. Garland 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.