Chap. 408.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3192 of the code
amended by an act approved February 17, 1898, entitled an act to am
and re-enact section 3192 of the code of Virginia, in reference to who |
practice law in this state.

Approved February 20, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec
thirty-one hundred and ninety-two of the code, as amended by an
Approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-ei;
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-one hundred
ninety-two of the code in reference to who may practice law in this st
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3192. Who may practice law in this state——Any person duly aut!
ized and practicing as counsel or attorney at law in any state or terri
of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, may, for the
pose of attending to any case he may occasionally have in associa
with a practicing lawyer of this state, practice in the courts of this st
But no person shall be permitted to practice as attorney at law, whet
1e resides in this state or not, until he shall have passed an examina’
yefore three or more judges of the supreme court of appeals, as requ
»y section thirty-one hundred and ninety-one, as amended by an
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-one hundred and
ninety-one of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved February second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled
an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-one hundred and ninety-one
of code of Virginia, relating to the licensing of persons to practice law
in this state, approved January eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, and paid the license tax prescribed by law; but the supreme court of
appeals shall have discretion to grant a certificate, without examination,
to any lawyer who has practiced before the supreme court of any state
or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia for three
years, which certificate shall entitle the holder, after paying his license,
to practice in the courts of this state. But this act shall not apply to
any lawyer now practicing or entitled to practice law in the courts of
this state.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.