Chap. 73.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia
of 1904, as amended by acts approved March 14, 1898, March 17, 1910,
and January 30, 1914. (S. B. 57)

Approved February 18, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
hundred and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, March seven-
teenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and January thirtieth, nineteen hun-
dred and fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 164. The preceding section shall not be construed to pre-
vent members of Congress from acting as justices of the peace, visitors
of the University of Virginia and Virginia Military Institute, or from
holding offices in the militia, or to exclude from offices under the State
on account of any 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 in actual duty; or to be construed to prevent United
States commissioners or United States census enumerators or fourth
class or third class postmasters from acting as notaries, or school trustees
or justices of the peace, or supervisors, or from holding any district office
under the government of any county, or as councilman of any town or
city in this State; or to prevent any United States commissioner from
holding the office of commissioner in chancery bail commissioner, jury
commissioner, commissioner of accounts or assistant commissioner of ac-
counts; or to prevent any person holding an office or post of profit, trust
or. emolument, civil, legislative, executive or judicial under the govern-
ment of the United States, from being a member of the militia, or hold-
ing office therein; or to be construed to prevent foremen, quartermen,
leading men, artisans, clerks or laborers employed in any navy yard or
naval reservation in Virginia from holding any office under the govern-
ment of any town, county or city in this State, or to prevent any United
States government clerk from holding any office under the government
of any town or city in this State; or to prevent any United States post-
master from being a member of the State board of health, and the office
of no member of the state board of health, who has been or may be ap-
pointed a postmaster, shall be vacated because of such appointment and
qualification as postmaster; provided, that said foreman, quarterman,
leading man, artisan, clerk or laborer or United States government clerk
is in all respects qualified to hold office as a citizen of this State under
existing law; and provided further, that such United States government
clerk has been a legal resident of such city or town for a period of at
least two years prior to such election to office.

2. An emergency existing by reason of the fact that a commissioner
in chancery has been appointed a United States commissioner, this is
declared an emergency act, and shall be in force from its passage.