Chap. 1240.—An ACT for the relief of R. P. Gold.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas R. P. Gold, a gallant Confederate soldicr of Virginia, served
throughout the civil war as a private in company B, forty-fifth regiment
volunteers, Confederate states of America, pxcept for a period of about
ten months, when he was a prisoner at “Camp Morton,” at Indianapolis,
Indiana.

That from an accidental gun-shot wound, about four years ago, his
lee had to be amputated between the hip and knee; and ,

Whereas said Gold is a poor man, without any property and no means
of earning his living except by his manual labor; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if upon
the proof of the said facts before the corporation court for the city of
Bristol they are found to be correct, and that said Gold is worthy of
aid from said state of Virginia, then, upon a certificate of such facts
from said court to the auditor of public accounts he is hereby directed
to place the name of R. P. Gold on the pension list, and pay to him
annually the sum of fifteen dollars, beginning April first, nineteen
hundred.

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