Chap. 1479.—An ACT for the relief of Daniel F. Dorton, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier, of Scott county, Virginia,

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Daniel F. Dorton, a disabled Confederate soldier of the
forty-eighth Virginia regiment, company C, was a gallant soldier and
served four years for Virginia; and

Whereas he is now almost totally blind, so much so as to wholly in-

capacitate him for labor of any kind; said blindness being the result
of exposure in the late war; and

Whereas the said Daniel F. Dorton has no property nor income of
any kind; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That thie
county court of Scott county shall examine into the condition of the
said Daniel F. Dorton, and should it prove that he was loyal and true
to Virginia during the late war, and is now suffering from blindness
so as to incapacitate him for labor, and that he is needy and poor and
should receive aid from Virginia, and should the county court of Scott
county present a certificate of these facts to the auditor of public
accounts, then the auditor of public accounts is directed to place the
name of Daniel F. Dorton on the pension list and pay him annually
the sum of fifteen dollars, after April first, nineteen hundred.

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