Chap. 1406.—An ACT for the relief of E. B. Draper, of Henry county, a
Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas E. B. Draper, a citizen of Henry county, Virginia, was a
true and loyal soldier of Virginia in the military service of the Con-
federate states; was wounded in eighteen hundred and sixty-four on
James river in the attack made on B. F. Butler by a ball which shat-
tered the bones of his ankle; and

Whereas the said soldier, since receiving said wound, has never
been strong, but came home after the war to Henry county and worked
in the field by the aid of his crutch and made crops with his hoe; and

Whereas the soldier never asked for a pension while he was able
to work, and is now helpless and poor, is seventy years ef age, and
partly paralyzed; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
said KE. B. Draper, upon his proof before the county court of Henry
county of the foregoing facts, and upon the certificate by the said court
of the same to the auditor of public accounts, shall be entitled
to a pension of fifteen dollars per annum, and the said auditor shall
place the name of the said E. B. Draper upon the pension roll, and
there shall be paid annually to said Draper out of the treasury upon
the warrant of said auditor the sum of fifteen dollars.

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