In this excerpt from Acts and Joint Resolutions (Amending the Constitution) of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, published in 1910, the General Assembly defines how Virginians are legally classified as “negro” and 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.
Chapter CIX of the Code of Virginia (1849) Chapter CIII of the Code of Virginia (1860) Chapter 17 of Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia (1866) Chapter CXCII of the Code of Virginia (1873) Kinney v. The Commonwealth (October 3, 1878) Naim v. Naim (June 13, 1955) Judgment Against Richard and Mildred Loving (January 6, 1959) Opinion of Judge Leon M. Bazile (January 22, 1965) Loving v. The Commonwealth (March 7, 1966) Excerpts from a Transcript of Oral Arguments in Loving v. Virginia (April 10, 1967) Loving v. Virginia (June 12, 1967)
