Chap. 61.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of
Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act) approved) February 1>,
1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1898, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1900, so as to allow foremen, quar-
termen, ete.

Approved January 16, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
hundred and sixty-four of the Code of Vi irginia, as amended and te-
enacted by an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, as amended and re-enacted by an act ‘approved February thir-
teenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended and re- macted by
an act approved February twenty- third, eighteen hundred and_ninety-
eight. as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February four-
teenth, nineteen hundred, be ame nded and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

$164. Qualifications of preceding section.—The preceding section
shall not be construed to prevent members of Congress from acting as
justices, visitors of the University of Virginia and Virginia Military
Institute, or from holding offices in the militia, or to exclude from offices
under this State on account of a pension from the United States a_per-
son to whom such pension has heen 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 in actual duty, or be construed to prevent fourth-
class posimasters from acting as notarics or school trustees or justices.
or to prevent any person holding an office or post of profit, trust, or emolt-
ment, civil, legislativ ce, executive, or judicial, under the government of the
United States, from being a member of the militia or holding office
therein, or construed to prevent foremen, quartermen, leading men, arti
sans, clerks, or laborers emploved in any navy yard or naval reservation in
Virginia from holding any office under the government. of any town.
county, or city in this State: provided, that said foremen, quartermen,
leading men, artisans, clerks. or laborers are in all other respects quall-
fied to hold office as citizens of this State under existing laws.

This act shall be in force from its passage. |