Chap. 1331.—An ACT for the relief of John E. Hester, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John E. Hester, a disabled Confederate soldier of company
M, fifty-fifth Virginia regiment, infantry, was a true and gallant soldier
during the civil war; was loyal to Virginia; and |

Whereas he is now suffering from rheumatism occasioned by exposure
during the war, and is unable to work to get about; is sixty-one vears
old and is poor and without means of support; therefore,

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Spotsylvania county, Virginia, shall examine into the
condition of the above-named Jolin Js, Ilester, a Confederate soldier,
and should it be that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war
and that he is now afflicted and helpless from theumatism as state:
above, and incapacitated for manual labor, that he is needy and poo
and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court o:
Spotsylvania county should send a certificate of facts to the auditor
of public accounts in Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts }:
directed to place the name of John E. Hester on the pension list, anc
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.