Chap. 125.—An ACT to amend the 29th section of chapter 158 of the
~ Code of 1860, in regard to terms of Circuit Courts. )

Passed January 28, 1867.

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

Ҥ29. If any term: of. a circuit court is to end, or has
ended, without dispatching all its business; or if there be a
failure to hold any term, the judge of sueh circuit, or if he
fail to do so, or have ‘died, any other judge of such district
shall, by an order entered in such court, or by a warrant di-
rected to the clerk, appoint a special term therefor, and pre-
scribe in such order or warrant whether a grand jury or any
venire is to be summoned to attend the said term. The clerk
shall inform the attorney for the commonwealth, and the
sheriff or sergeant of such appointment, post a copy of the
order or warrant at the door at the courthouse, and issue all
proper process returnable to such special term; and the
sheriff or sergeant shall execute such process, and summon
agrand jury, if by such order or warrant the same be pre-
scribed. And if any term of a circuit court, when proceed-
Ing in the trial of any case, civil or criminal, is to end before
the termination of such case, it may be lawful for the court
to continue the said trial until the conclusion thereof.” _

2. The act passed January thirteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, entitled an act to amend the twenty-ninth
section of the one hundred and fifty-eighth chapter of the
Code is hereby repealed. * ,

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