Chap. 360.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164, of the Code of Virginia,

as previously amended, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January
16, 1902.

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia as previously
amended as amended by an act approved January sixteenth, nineteen
hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§164. The preceding section shall not be construed to prevent mem-
bers 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 pen-
sion 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 recom-
pense they may receive from the United States when called out in actual
duty, or be construed to prevent United States commissioners or fourth-
class or third-class postmasters from acting as notaries, or school trustees,
or justices; or to prevent any person holding 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 holding office therein; or construed to prevent foremen, quartermen,
leading men, artisans, clerks, or laborers employed in any navy yard or
naval reservation in Virginia from holding anv office under the govern-
ment of any town, county, or city in this State: provided, that said
foreman, quarterman, leading men, artisans, clerks, or laborers are in
all other respects qualified to hold office as citizens of this State under
existing laws.