Chap. 315.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1904 as amended and re-enacted March 14, 1908, as amended and
re-enacted Murch 17, 1910, as amended and re-enacted February 18, 1915,
in relation to qualifications of disability of persons holding office under
Tnited States so as to allow rural carriers of United States government
to be appointed and act as notary public. [H B 30)

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one hundred and sixty-four of the Code of Virginia of nine-
teen hundred and four, as amended and re-enacted March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and eight, as amended and re-enacted March seven-
teenth, nineteen hundred and ten, as amended and re-enacted Febru-
ary eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, in relation to quali-
fications of disability of person holding office under United States
so as to allow rural carriers of United States government to be ap-
pointed and act as notary public, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 164. The preceding section shall not be construed te
prevent members of congress from acting as Justices of the peace
visitors of the University of Virginia and Virginia Military In.
stitute, or from holding offices in the militia; or to exclude from
offices under the State on account of any pension from the Unitec
States a person to whom such pension has been granted in con
sequence of an injury or disability received in war, or to exclud
from such office or post officers or soldiers on account of the recom
pense they may receive from the United States when called out 11
actual duty; or be construed to prevent United States commissioners
or United States census enumerators or fourth-class or third-class
postmasters from acting as notaries, school trustees, justices of the
peace, or supervisors, or from holding any district office under the

overnment of any county, or as councilman of any town or city
in this State; or to prevent any United States rural mail carrier
from being appointed and acting as notary public; or to prevent
any United States commissioner from holding the office of com-
miss‘oner in chancery, bail commissioner, jury commissioner, com-
missioner of accounts, or assistant commissioner of accounts; 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
holding office therein; or, from being a director in a State in-
stitution; or 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 tates postmaster from being a member of the State board
of health.