Chap. 215.—An AOT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 160 of
the Code of 1878, in relation to granting licenses to practice law.

Approved April 20, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section one
of chapter one hundred and sixty of the Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. Any two judges of the supreme court of appeals, or
of the circuit courts of this state, may grant a license, in
writing, to practice law in the courts of this state to an
person who shall on examination be found duly qualified,
and who shall produce to them a certificate of the court of
the county or corporation where he has resided for one year
next preceding, that he is a person of honest demeanor, and
is over twenty-one years of age. All licenses granted or
signed by any judge of the supreme court of appeals of this
state since the fourteenth day of January, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, shall be as valid as if granted or signed by a
judge of a circuit court of this state.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.