Chap. 1264.—An ACT for the relief of William J. Pace, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Wilham J. Pace, a disabled Confederate soldier of company
HI, twenty-second Virginia battalion of infantry, was a good and faith-
ful soldier during the late sectional war, and has ever been true and
loval to Virginia; and

Whereas from distressing hernia, rhenmatism, and decrepitude. ag-
cravated. if not produced, by exposure in the service during the war
and by the weight of vears, he being now ahout seventy-five vears old.
he is unable to make and earn his support by manual labor, and is in
distressful and needy circumstances and deserving aid from the state:
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Vireinia, That the
county court of Fluvanna, in which county the said William J. Pace
resides, do examine into the condition of the said Pace, and if it shall
find that the statements above in recital made are true, it shall make
an order to that effect, and cause a copy thereof to be certified by its
clerk to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, whereupon the said
auditor shall place the name of the said William J. Pace on the pension
rolls, and cause to be issued to him annually a warrant on the trea-
surer of Virginia for the sum of fifteen dollars, commencing on the
first dav of April, nineteen hundred.

This act shall be in force from its passage.