Chap. 338.—An ACT to provide that any person born in this State prior to June 14,
1912, may, under certain circumstances, have the date and place of his birth
established by a court order, and certified to the Registrar of Vital Statistics,
upon which record, the Registrar may issue a birth certificate to such person.

[H B 355]
Approved March 31, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That any
person born in this State prior to the fourteenth day of June, nineteen
hundred and twelve, as to the date and place of whose birth, there is nc
record in the office of Registrar of Vital Statistics, and who cannot pro-
duce evidence to the satisfaction of the Registrar of Vital Statistics as to
the date and place of his birth and such other information as the said
Registrar may require to record such birth, may have the date and place
of his birth established by any court of record of the county or city in
which he resides, upon satisfactory proof thereof before such court or
judge, upon which being done, such court or judge shall, by an order
entered of record in the common law order book of such court, set forth
the date and place of such person’s birth as so proven, together with the
sex, height, weight, color of hair and eyes, and any distinguishing physi-
cal mark or characteristic of such person. |

Upon the entering of such order, the clerk of such court. shall
promptly transmit a certified copy thereof to the Registrar of Vital
Statistics, who shall record the same in his office, from which record so
made, the Registrar shall issue a birth certificate to the person the
date and place of whose birth is established by such order, setting
forth in such certificate the source of the information upon which the
certificate was issued.

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