Chap. 448.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 15, 1894, entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-
class portmasters to act as notaries, as amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved February 13, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 14 of
the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 164 of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-
class postmasters to act as notaries, approved February 15, 1894, so as to -allow
fourth-class postmasters to act as school trustees.

Approved February 23, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
hundred and sixty-four of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section one hundred
and sixty-four of the code of Virginia, so as to allow fourth-class post-
masters to act as notaries, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section one hundred and sixty-four of code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section one hundred and sixty-four of the code of Virginia, so
as to allow fourth-class postmasters to act as notaries, approved February
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, so as to allow fourth-class
postmasters to act as school trustees, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 164. Qualification of the preceding section.—The preceding section
shall not be construed to prevent members of congress from acting as
justices, visitors of the university and Virginia military institute, or from
holding offices in the militia, or to exclude from office under this state
on account of a pension from the United States a person to whom such
pension has been granted in consequence of a wound received in war, or
to exclude from such office or post militia officers or soldiers on account
of the recompense they may receive from the United States when called
out into actual duty, or be construed to prevent fourth-class postmasters
from acting as notaries or school trustee, or to prevent any person hold-
ing an 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 of holding office therein.

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