Chap. 1278.—An ACT for the relief of W. A. Rader, a Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas W. A. Rader, a Confederate veteran of Bristol, Virginia,
was wounded in the right hand on the eighth day of May, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, at the battle of MacDowell, while serving as a
Confederate volunteer soldier in company A, thirty-seventh Virginia
infantry, in the late war between the states; and

Whereas the wound has incapacitated him from performing manual
labor—

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and is hereby, directed to list the said
W. A. Rader for a pension of fifteen dollars per annum, upon the proof
of the foregoing facts before the corporation court for the city of
Bristol, Virginia, and a certificate of the same by said court to the
auditor.

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