Chap. 1371.—An ACT for the relief of John B. Eskridge, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John B. Eskridge, a disabled Confederate soldier, who was
a member of company A, forty-ninth Virginia infantry, Confederate
states army, during the civil war, and was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from a wound received at Five Forks
during the said war, and at the present time suffers from such wound
to the extent that he is incapacitated for manual labor as much as
though he had actually lost his leg, but under the general law can only
receive the sum of ‘fifteen dollars per annum; and

Whereas the said John B. Eskridge is now poor and needy, and so
badly afflicted as to be utterly unable to do manual labor; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Accomac county shall examine into the condition of the
above-named John B. Eskridge, a Confederate soldier, and should it
be that he was true and loval to Virginia through the war, and that he
is now afflicted and incapacitated for manual labor from wound received
while in the service of the state, that he is needy and poor, and should
receive aid from Virginia; and if the county court of Accomace county
should send a certificate of the facts to the auditor of public accounts
of Virginia, then the auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby,
directed to place the name of John B. Eskridge, of Accomac county, on
the pension roll, at fifteen dollars per annum, said pension to date from
April first, nineteen hundred.

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