Chap. 1474.—An ACT for the relief of John W. Griffith, a disabled Confederate
soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John W. Griffith, a disabled Confederate soldier was a
member of company H, sixth Virginia cavalry, Confederate states
army, during the civil war and was loyal to Virginia; and

hereas he is now suffering from the following disability: From an
anchylosed right elbow joint, from gunshot wound, received in battle;
an only partly useful left arm, the result of a fall from a horse; be-
sides an increasing aneurism of the left iliac artery and a condition
of chronic rheumatism, and at the present time suffers from the fore-
going troubles as much as though he had actually lost his arm, but
under the general law can only receive the sum of fifteen dollars per
annum; and

Whereas the said John W. Griffith is now poor and needy and so
badly afflicted as to be unable to do manual labor except to a very
limited extent; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Prince William county shall examine into the condi-
tion of the above-named John W. Griffith, a Confederate soldier, and
should it be he was true and loyal to Virginia, through the war, and
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 Prince
William 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 W. Griffith, of
Prince William county, on the pension roll at fifteen dollars per annum,
said pension to date from the first day of April, nineteen hundred.

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