Chap. 1216.—An ACT for the relief of George W. Davis, an aged Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas George W. Davis, an aged Confederate soldier, of Nelson
county, Virginia, was wounded in the late war so as to unfit him for
manual labor and render him totally incapable for self-support; there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Nelson shall examine into the condition of the above-
named George W. Davis. a Confederate soldier; and should it appear
that he was true and loval to Virginia through the war, and that he is
now afflicted and disabled and ineapacitated for manual Jabor, bv
reason of said injury; that he is needy and poor and should receive
aid from Virginia; and if the county court of Nelson should send a
certificate of the facts to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia,
then the auditor of pubhe accounts is directed to place the name of
George W. Davis on the pension list and pav him annually the sum
of fifteen dollars on and after the first dav of April, nineteen hundred.

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