Chap. 1466.—An ACT for the relief of David H. Bowens, an old Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas David H. Bowens, an old Confederate soldier, who entered
the service of his country early in the spring of eighteen hundred and
sixty-two in the late civil war between the states, and so continued a
true and faithful soldier to the close of said war in company B, twenty-
seventh Virginia cavalry, and has ever since proved himself a. true
and loyal citizen of the state of Virginia, and has now become totally
unable to perform manual labor and has no property of any kind, and
is now on the charities of the people; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when said
soldier, David H. Bowens, appear before the county court of said
county of Lee and make affidavit that the above statement is true, or
f he cannot appear himself, that upon the affidavit of two comrade
soldiers before said court to said facts, then the county court clerk
hall furnish the auditor of public accounts a certificate to that effect
ind his name be placed on the pension rolls of Confederate soldiers
t a rate of fifteen dollars per annum, to take effect April the first,
ineteen hundred.

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