Chap. 440.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employ-
ment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.

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Approved March 26, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 291. The preceding section shall not be construed to
prevent members of Congress from acting as justices of the peace,
visitors of the University of Virginia and Virginia Military Jn-
stitute, 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 con-
sequence of an injury or disability received in war, or to exclude
from such office or post officers or soldiers on account of the re-
compense they may receive from the United States when called out
in actual duty; or be construed to prevent United States commis-
sioners or United States census enumerators or fourth-class or
third-class postmasters from acting as notaries, school trustees, jus-
tices of the peace, or supervisors, or from holding any district of-
fice under the government of any county, or as councilman of any
town or city in this State; or to prevent any United States rural
mail carrier or civilian emplovee of the United States government
from being appointed and acting as notary publie: or to prevent
any United States commissioners from holding the office of com-
missioner in chancery, bail commissioner, jury commissioner, com-
missioner of accounts, or assistant commissioner of accounts; or to
prevent any person holding office or post of profit, trust or emolu-
ment, civil, legislative, executive or judicial under the government
of the United States, from being a member of the militia, or holding
office therein; or from being a director in a State institution; 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 government of any
city, town or county in this Commonwealth, or to prevent any
United States government clerk from holding any office under the
government of any town or city, or to prevent any United States
government employee, otherwise eligible from holding any office
under the government of any county in this State having a popula-
tion in excess of three hundred inhabitants per square mile ac-
cording to the last United States census, or to prevent any person
holding an office under the United States government from hold-
ing a position under the management and control of the State
board of health; or to prevent any State Federal director for this
State in the employment service of the United States department of
labor from holding the office of commissioner of labor of this State;
or to prevent clerks and employees of the Federal government en-
gaged in the departmental service in Washington from acting as
school trustees.