Chap. 211.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2968 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, providing what property shall not be included in the annexed territory;
what territory shall be annexed and what persons shall not be included
in the enumeration of population. fH B 204]

Approved March 22, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-nine hundred and sixty-eight, of the Code of Vriginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2968. In any county having an area of less than thirty
square miles no portion thereof shall be annexed to any city or town
unless the county be annexed as a whole. No city or town in extend-
ing its corporate limits under the provisions of this chapter shall in-
clude the territory of any national soldiers’ home for disabled volun-
teer soldiers whose inmates, by reason of their residence in such home,
do not acquire the rights of citizenship, and the property of which insti-
tution is not taxable for State or municipal purposes, nor shall such
city or town enumerate in its census the inmates of such homes as a
part of its population. If any city or town, when extending its cor-
porate limits under the provisions of this chapter, shall include in such
1ew corporate limits the grounds of any normal and agricultural insti-
ute of this State, the property of which is not taxable for State or
municipal purposes, then only such persons as have acquired a perma-
nent right in such institution shall be included in the enumeration of
population or census of such city or town.