CHAPTER 702

An Act to amend and reenact § 1-14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the
definition of colored persons and Indians, so as to change the definition
of tribal Indians.

. [(S 369]

Approved April 8, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

La That § 1-14 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 1-14.—Every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro
blood shall be deemed and taken to be a colored person, and every person
not a colored person having one-fourth or more of American Indian blood
shall be deemed an American Indian; except that members of Indian
tribes * existing in this Commonwealth having one-fourth or more of
Indian blood and less than one-sixteenth of Negro blood shall be deemed
tribal Indians. *