Chap. 1452.—An ACT for the relief of Robert 8. Duerson, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Robert S. Duerson, a disabled Confederate soldier, who was
a member of company ————— Virginia, ————— Confederate states
army, during the civil war, and was loyal to Virginia; and

Whereas he is now suffering from a wound in the groin, received
during the fight at Drewrv’s Bluff (the ball entering the groin and
making its exit was the backbone), and at the present time suffers from
such wound and from paresis, and other disabilities resulting directly
from such wound to such an extent that he is totally incapacitated fo
manual labor; and

Whereas the said Robert 8. Duerson is now poor and needy, and s¢
badly afflicted as to be utterly unable to do manual labor; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That th
county court of Spotsylvania county shall examine into the conditior
of the above-named Robert S. Duerson, a Confederate soldier, anc
should it be that he was true and loyal to Virginia through the war
and that he is now afflicted and totally incapacitated for manual labo
from wound received while in the service of the state, that he is need}
and poor and should receive aid from Virginia, and if the county court
of Spotsylvania county should send a certificate of the facts to the
auditor of public accounts of Virginia, then the auditor of public ac-
counts be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Robert S.
Duerson, of Spotsylvania 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.