In “An Act to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887,” passed in 1910, the General Assembly provides a legal definition for a “colored person” and for an Indian.
Chap. 357.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 49 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.
Approved March 17, 1910.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section forty-nine of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§49 Every person having one-sixteenth or more of negro blood shall be deemed a colored person, and every person not a colored person having one-fourth or more of Indian blood shall be deemed an Indian.
An act declaring who shall not bear office in this country (October 1705) An act declaring what persons shall be deemed mulattoes (October 1785) General Provisions as to Slaves (1860) An Act to amend and re-enact the 9th section of chapter 103 of the Code of Virginia for 1860 (1866) Colored Persons and Indians Defined (1924) Preservation of Racial Integrity (1924) Atha Sorrells v. A. T. Shields, Clerk, Petition for Mandamus (November 14, 1924) Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Turner McDowell (September 27, 1937) Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca. 1943) Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al. (December 1943)
