Chap. 951.—An ACT for the relief of Dabney Abbot, an ex-Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas Dabney Abbot, a disabled Confederate soldier, was a true
and gallant soldier during the late war, was loval to Virginia, and was
a member of company I’, twenty-eighth Virginia regiment; and
Whereas he was wounded in the Confederate service at the battle of
1d Harbor on the fourth day of June, eihteen hundred and sixty-
ur, by having his hand partially shot away, by reason of which wound
-eived in the hand he is disabled from manual labor; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
unty court of Bedford county shall examine into the condition of the
ove-named Dabney Abbot, a Confederate soldier, and should it be
at he was true and loyal to Virginia during the late war, and that he
now incapacitated from manual labor as a result of the wound re-
ived in battle, and that he is needy and dependent, and should need
1 from Virginia, the county court of Bedford county shall sign a
rtificate of the facts to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia,
en the auditor of public accounts is directed to place the name of
abney Abbot on the pension list, and pay him annually the sum of
teen dollars.

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