Chap. 157.—An ACT to amend and re-enact-section 291 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office and exceptions
thereto. fo [H B 377]

Approved March 15, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 291. The preceding section shall not be construed to pre-
vent members of Congress from acting as justices of the peace, visi-
tors 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 United 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
offcers or soldiers on account of the recompense they may receive
from the United States when called out in actual duty; or be con-
strued to prevent United States commissioners or United States cen-
sus enumerators, supervisor, or the clerks under the supervisor of
the United States census, or fourth-class or third-class postmasters,
or United States caretakers of the National Guard of Virginia, from
acting as notaries, school trustees, justices of the peace, or super-
visors, 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 star route mail
carrier from being appointed and acting as notary public or holding
any county or district office or to prevent any civilian employee of
the United States government from being appointed and acting as
notary public; or to prevent any United States commissioners or
referees in bankruptcy from holding office of commissioner in chan-
cery, bail commissioner, jury commissioner, commissioner of accounts,
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 city, town or county in this Common-
wealth, or to prevent any United States government clerk from hold-
ing any office under the government of any town or city, or to pre-
vent any United States government employee, otherwise eligible from
holding any office under the government of any county in this State
having a population in excess of three hundred inhabitants per square
mile according to the last United States census, or to prevent any per-
son holding an office under the United States government from hold-
ing a position under the management and control of the State Board
of Health; or to prevent any State Federal director for this State in
the employment service of the United States Department of Labor
from holding the office of Commissioner of Labor of this State, or
to prevent clerks and employees of the Federal government engaged
in the departmental service in Washington from acting as school
trustees.