Chap. 1483.—An ACT for the relief of Cornelius Bendall, a disabled Confed-
erate soldier of Mathews county.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Cornelius Bendall, a disabled Confederate soldier of Mathews
county, was a member of company K, forty-seventh Virginia regiment,
General Heth’s division, and was wounded in the right leg below the
knee in the battle of Fredericksburg, December thirteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two; and

Whereas the said Cornelius Bendall was a true and gallant soldier,
and was loval to Virginia in the war between the states; is now poor
and needy; is disabled to do manual labor in consequence of said wound,
and is deserving of aid from Virginia; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county court of Mathews county shall examine into the condition of
the above named Cornelius Bendall, and it appear that he was true
and loyal to Virginia throughout the war, that he is disabled as afore-
said, that he is needy and poor, and should receive aid from Virginia,
and if said county court send a certificate of said facts to the auditor
of public accounts of Virginia, then the said auditor is directed to
place the name of the said Cornelius Bendall on the pension list and
pay him annually the sum of fifteen dollars, on and after the first day
of April, nineteen hundred.

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