Chap. 147.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1459 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved December 28, 1903, entitled: An act to
amend and re-enact chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public free
schools for counties and to the literary fund as further amended by an act
approved March 11, 1904, entitled: An act to amend and re-enact sections
1433, 1437, 1445, 1449, 1450, 1454, 1459, 1466, 1484 and 1515 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact
chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia relating to public free schools for counties
and to the literary fund approved December 28, 1903.

Approved March 5, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and fifty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act approved December twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter sixty-six of the Code of
Virginia, relating to public free schools for counties and to the literary
fund, as further amended by an act approved March eleventh, nineteen
hundred and four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections four-
teen hundred and thirty-three, fourteen hundred and thirty-seven, four-
teen hundred and forty-five, fourteen hundred and forty-nine, fourteen
hundred and fifty, fourteen hundred and fifty-four, fourteen hundred
and fifty-nine, fourteen hundred and sixty-six, fourteen hundred and
eighty-four, and fifteen hundred and fifteen of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter
sixty-six of the Code of Virginia relating to public free schools for coun-
ties and to the library fund, approved December twenty-eighth, nineteen
hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1459. Who cannot be trustee—No federal, State or county officer,
or any deputy of such officer, and no supervisor shall be chosen or
allowed to act as district school trustee; provided, that the provisions
herein contained shall not apply to fourth-class postmasters, county
superintendents of the poor, commissioners in chancery, commissioners
of accounts, and notaries public.

2. Inasmuch as the restrictions heretofore existing affect the tenure
of office of many school trustees, an emergency exists, and this act shall
be in force from its passage.