Chap. 58.—An ACT to extend the time within which a person to whom license
had been issued prior to March 14, 1918, to practice law in Virgniia, but
who had been prevented from qualifying and commencing said practice
within two years after the granting of said license by his entry into the
military or naval service of the United States may qualify and commence
said practice without further examination. [H B 53]

Approved February 17, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any
person to whom a license to practice law in this State was granted
prior to March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and who
was prevented from commencing said practice within two years from
the date of granting said license by reason of his entry into the
military or naval service of the United States, shall be permitted to
qualify and commence the practice of the law in this state without
obtaining the further license now reguired by Acts nineteen hundred
and eighteen, chapter two hundred and twenty-one, clause (1), upon
producing to the court in which he offers to qualify satisfactory
evidence of his honorable discharge from said service, and that he
comes within the provisions of this act; provided such offer to qualify
be made within six months from the approval of this act.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.