Chap. 226.—An ACT authorizing a Practising Lawyer of the State of Vir-
ginia to decide causes, or preside at the trial thereof, under certain cir-
cumstances.

Passed February 21, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
when a judge holding a circuit court in any county is so situ-
ated as to render improper in his judgment for him to de-
cide, or preside at the trial of any civil cause pending
therein, the parties to such cause, plaintiff and defendant,
may, with the consent of such judge entered of record in his
said court, select a member of the bar practising in said
court, who shall proceed to try such cause as the judge
would, were he sitting; and the judgment or decree ren-
dered in said cause shall be entered on the record of said
court by the judge of said court as the judgment thereof;
and ‘the person'so selected to try or preside at the trial of
said cause shall have power to enforce order and compel obe-
dience during the trial of such cause by him, as the judge of
said court would have were he sitting.

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