Chap. 1257.—An ACT for the relief of Samuel Mills, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Samuel Mills, a disabled Confederate soldier of Woolfolk’s
battery, of Hanover county, Virginia, was a true and gallant soldier
during the late war; was lov al to Vi irginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from ‘the followi ing disability—to-wit:

From a wound received from a fragment of shell in the left leg at the
battle of Gettysburg: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Hanover shall examine into the condition of the above-
named Samuel Mills, a Confederate soldier; and should it be that he
was true and loval to Virginia through the war, and that he is now
afflicted and incapacitated for manual labor; that he is needy and poor,
and should receive aid from Virginia; and if the county court of Han-
over should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public
accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to
place the name of Samuel Mills 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.