Chap. 1347.—An ACT for the relief of Thomas Gilliam, an old Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Thomas Gilliam, an old Confederate soldier of Scott county,
Virginia, who entered the service as a Confederate soldier at the
beginning of the late war between the states, and while in the service
of his country was captured by the Federal army, and was held in
prison the remainder of the said war, in which time he suffered the
scourge of small-pox and bone scurvy, together with age, have become
totally unable to obtain a livelihood; and the said Gilliam has neither
land or property by which to create a support for himself; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when
the said Thomas Gilliam appears before the county court of Scott
county, Virginia, and makes affidavit, and produce other satisfactory
evidence of the foregoing facts, that the clerk of said county furnish
the auditor of public accounts of Virginia a certificate to that effect,
and his name be placed on the rolls of Confederate soldiers for pension
at a rate of fifteen dollars per annum.

2. This act shall take effect the first day of April, in the year of our
Lord, nineteen hundred.