Chap. 274.—JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section 22 of
the Constitution of Virginta. [fH J R 4]

Signed March 23, 1926.

Whereas, the proposed amendment to section twenty-two of the
Constitution of Virginia, hereinafter fully set forth, was agreed to by
a majority of the members elected to the two houses of the general
assembly at its session of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and re-
ferred to this, the next general assembly, and published for three
months, as required by the Constitution of Virginia, and as shown by
report of such publication by the clerk of the-house of delegates; now,
therefore,

Resolved, by the house of delegates, the senate concurring (a
majority of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto),
That the following amendment to section twenty-two of the Constitu-
tion of Virginia be, and the same is hereby, proposed in conformity
with the provisions of section one hundred and ninety-six of article
fifteen 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 Con-
federate States, shall at any time be required to pay a poll tax asa
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.
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.

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