Chap. 1417.-—An ACT for the relief of R. D. Hicks, a disabled Confederat
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts shall place R. D. Hicks on the pension lis
as entitled to receive a pension of fifteen dollars a year on account o:
being rendered helpless and unable to support himself from disease:
and disability contracted in the military service of the Confederate
states during the civil war. But before said R. D. Hicks shall be en.
titled to be so listed, he shall establish the above facts by adequate
proof before the county court of James City county and city of Wil.
liamsburg, and file the same with the said auditor of public accounts.

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