Chap. 1250.—An ACT to put on the pension list the name of Peter W. Wheeler,
a wounded Confederate soldier, of Rockingham county.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Peter W. Wheeler, a disabled Confederate soldier of com-
pany D, tenth Virginia infantry, was wounded in the leg at the battle
of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the third dav of July, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-three, and which wound incapacitates him from manual
labor, and who is in needv circumstances; therefore,

1. Be it enacted bv the general assemblv of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized to place on
the pension list the name of Peter W. Wheeler and draw his warrant
annually in favor of the said Peter W. Wheeler for the sum of fifteen
dollars, when the judge of the county court of Rockingham county cer-
tifies that the preamble to this act is true.

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

Cnapr. 1251.—An ACT for the relief of James W. Woodward, an old Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas James W. Woodward, an old Confederate soldier of Lee
county, Virginia, who entered the Confederate service at the beginning
of the late war hetween the states and served as a true and faithful
soldier and followed Lee and Jackson through Virginia in the interest
of his country, and has ever been faithful and true to the interest of
the state of Virginia: and

Whereas James W. Woodward is now old and afflicted with rheuma-
tism. that he is totally unable to perform manual labor so as to sustain
himself, and without property of any kind; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when said
James W. Woodward shall appear before the county court of Lee
county, state of Virginia, and make satisfactory proof before said court
of the foregoing facts set forth, that the clerk of said county court
shall furnish the auditor of public accounts of Virginia a certificate to
that effect: and his name shall be placed on the Confederate pension
roll at a rate of fifteen dollars per annum, to take effect April first, nine-
teen hundred.

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