Chap. 277.--An ACT to provide for issuing of marriage licenses to persons
on Federal reservations within Virginia and to legalize marriages performed
on said reservations. [S B 253]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
clerks of the circuit courts of any county or their deputies and the
clerks of the corporation courts of any cities or their deputies, be and
they are hereby authorized to issue marriage licenses in conformity
with the law now governing the same, to any persons desiring to be
inarried on any of the government reservations of this State, lying
within their respective counties and which said reservations was be-
fore the acquisition thereof part of the political territory of this State,
and any marriage ceremony performed on such reservation shall be
legal to all intents and purposes as if performed in any county or city
of the State, if the person performing the ceremony was qualified to
so act. |

All marriages heretofore solemnized within the limits of any such
reservation are hereby ratified and legalized to all intents and purposes
as if performed in any county or city of the State.

2. An emergency existing this act shall become effective from its
passage.