Chap. 98.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virgini:
and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 164 0:
the Code of Virginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908
as amended and re-enacted March 17, 1910, as amended and _ re-enactec
February 18, 1915, in relation to qualifications of disability of persons hold-
ing ofice under United States so as to allow rural carriers of United States

government to be appointed and act as notary public, approved March 16
1918. (CH B 154]

Approved February 25, 1920.:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
two hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia be amended anc
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 291. Qualification of the preceding section.—The preceding
section shall not be construed to prevent members of congress from
acting as justices of the peace, visitors of the University of Virginia
and Virginia Military Institute, or from holding offices in the militia ;
or to exclude from offices under the State on account of any pension
from the Unuited States a person to whom such pension has been
granted in consequence of an injury or disability received in war, or
to exclude from such office or post officers or soldiers on account of
the recompense they, may receive from the United States when called
out in actual duty ; or be construed to prevent United States: commis-
sioners or United States census enumerators or fourth-class or third-
class postmasters from acting as notaries, school trustees, justices of
the peace, or supervisors, or from holding any district office under
the government of any county, or as councilman of any town or city
in this State; or to prevent any United States rural mail carrier or
civilian employee of the United States government from being ap-
pointed and acting as notary public; or to prevent any United States
commissioners from holding the office of commissioner in chancery,
bail commissioner, jury commissioner, commissioner of accounts, or
assistant commissioner of accounts; or to prevent any person holding
office or post of profit, trust or emolument, civil, legislative, executive
or judicial under the government of the United States, from being a
member of the militia, or holding office therein; or from being a
director in a State institution; or be construed to prevent foremen,
quartermen, leading men, artisans, clerks or laborers employed in
any navy yard or naval reservation in Virginia from holding any office
under the government of any town, county, or city in this State, or
to prevent any United States government clerk from holding any office
under the government of any town or city in this State, or to prevent
any person holding an office under the United States government from
holding a position under the management and control of the State
board of health.

An act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section one hun-
dred and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia of nineteen hundred and
four, as amended and re-enacted March fourteenth, nineteen hundred
and eight, as amended and re-enacted March seventeenth, nineteen
hundred and ten, as amended and re-enacted February eighteenth,
nineteen hundred and fifteen, in relation to qualifications of disability
of persons holding office under United States so as to allow rural
carriers of United States government to be appointed and act as notary
public, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is
hereby repealed.