Chap. 936.—An ACT for the relief of J. W. Sutphin, a Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas J. W. Sutphin, a member of company A, twenty-fourth
Virginia infantry, and a citizen of the county of Rockingham, was
severely wounded in the left leg at the battle of Chaffin’s farm during
the late war, and at the present time suffers from such wounds to the
extent that he is incapacitated from manual labor as much as though
he had actually lost lis leg, but under the general law can only receive
the sum of fifteen dollars per annum, which he now receives; and

Whereas the said J. W. Sutphin, who was a gallant Confederate sol-
dier, is now poor and needy and so badly afflicted as to be incapacitated
from performing manual labor much of his time on account of said
wound: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and the same is hereby, directed to pla
the name of J. W. Suthpin, Rockingham county, upon the pension r¢
in the same class and to receive the same colupensation as those wl
actually lost a leg or arm; said increase to date froin April seventeent
nineteen hundred.

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