Chap. 1298.—An ACT for the relief of Jobe Cox, an old Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Jobe Cox, of the county of Lee and state of Virginia, an old
Confederate soldier, who served in the Confederate service during the
late war between the states, and was true and faithful to his country.
and has ever lived in the state of Virginia: and

Whereas he has become so very old and frail—seventv-six years—and
without means of anv kind by which to support himself: therefore,

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia, That when said
Jobe Cox shall appear before the county court of Lee county, state of
Virginia, and shall make affidavit, and together with other evidence, of
the foregoing facts sativfactory to the county court, that the clerk of the
said court shall furnish the auditor of publie accounts of the state of
Virginia a certificate to that effect, and the said Johe Cox’s name shall
he placed on the pension roll of Confederate soldiers at the rate of
fifteen dollars per annum.

2. This act shall take effect the first day of April, nineteen hundred.