Chap. 312.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of 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 post-
masters to act as school trustees.

Approved February 13, 1896.

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, 80 as to allow fourth-
class postmasters to act as notaries, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 164. Qualification of the preceding section.—The preceding sec-
tion 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 consge-
quence 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 trustees.

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