Chap. 1195.—An ACT for the relief of John Hitt, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John Hitt, a disabled Confederate soldier detailed for duty
under Captain G. G. Thompson, field) quartermaster, army northern
Virginia, and transferred later to pontoon train under Captain Douglass,
was a true and gallant soldier during the whole of the late war, was from
Manassas to Appomattox loval to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now in a suffering condition and totally disabled for
manual labor, caused by exposure during the war; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Culpeper county shall examine into the condition of the above-
vamed John Hitt. a Confederate soldier, and should it be true that he
vas true and Jeval to Virginia threugh the war, and that he is now
Wicted and incapacitated for manual labor; that he is needy and poor,
nd should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court of Culpeper
ould send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public accounts,
hen the auditor of pubhe accounts is directed to place the name of John
itt on the pension dist and pay him annually the sum of fifteen dollars,
mand after the first day of April, nineteen hundred.

This act shall be in force from its passage.