Chap. 22.—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. [H B 29]

Approved February 18, 1930

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 pre-
vent members of congress from acting as justices of the peace, visi-
tors 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 an injury
or disability received in war, or to exclude from such office or post
officers or soldiers on account of the recompense they may receive
from the United States when called out in actual duty; or be con-
strued to prevent United States commissioners or United States census
enumerators, supervisor, or the clerks under the supervisor of the
United States census, or fourth-class or third-class postmasters from
acting as notaries, school trustees, justices of the peace, or super-
visors, 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 rural mail carrier or civilian employee
of the United States government from being appointed and acting as
notary public; or to prevent any United States commissioners from
holding office of commissioner in chancery, bail commissioner, jury
commissioner, commissioner of accounts, or assistant commissioner
of accounts; or to prevent any person holding office or post of profit,
trust or emolument, 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 insti-
tution; or be construed to prevent foremen, quartermen, leading men,
artisans, clerks or laborers, employed in any navy yard or naval reser-
vation 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 population in
excess of three hundred inhabitants per square mile according to the
last United States census, or to prevent any person holding an office
under the United States government from holding 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 engaged in the depart-
mental service in Washington from acting as school trustees.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.