Chap. 483.—JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 22 of the
Constitution of Virginia. [H J R 3}

March 18, 1924.

Resolved by the house of delegates, the senate concurring (a majority
of the members elected to each house agreeing), That the following
amendment to section twenty-two of the Constitution of Virginia be,
and the same is hereby, proposed and referred to the general assembly
to be chosen at the next general election of members of the house of
delegates for its concurrence, in conformity with the provisions of section
one hundred and ninety-six of the said Constitution, namely:

Strike out from the Constitution of Virginia section twenty-two,
which is in the following words:

Section 22. No person who, during the late war between the States,
served in the army or navy of the United States, or of the Confederate
States, or any State of the United States, or of the Confederate States,
shall at any time be-required to pay a poll tax as a prerequisite to the
right to register or vote. The collection of the State poll tax assessed
against any one shall not be enforced by legal process until the same has
become three years past due.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Section 22. No person, nor the wife or widow of such person, who,
during the late war between the States, served in the army or navy of
the United States, or of the Confederate States, or any State of the
United States, or of the Confederate States, shall at any time be re-
quired to pay a poll tax as a prerequisite to the right to register or vote.

he collection of the State poll tax assessed against any one shall not
- enforced by legal process until the same has become three years past
ue.