Chap. 126.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3129 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1903.

* Approved March 12, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and twenty-nine of the Code of Virginia be amended
and: re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3129. Judges not permitted to practice law; exceptions.—No one
holding the office of judge in this State shall practice law therein during
his continuance in office, except that it shall be lawful for a judge of a
corporation or hustings court, whose salary does not exceed sixteen hun-
dred dollars during the period for which his term is continued by section
seven of the schedule of the Constitution, to appear as attorney at law
in any case not pending in his court, or which cannot be carried into the
same, or has not been taken therefrom by appeal or otherwise; and ex-
cept, also, that it shall be lawful for a judge of a corporation or hustings
court, whose salary does not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars per
annum, until the first day of February, nineteen hundred and seven, to
appear as attorney at law in any case which is pending in any court in
this Commonwealth in which he was counsel at the time of the passage of
the amendment heretofore referred to, approved December tenth, nine-
teen hundred and three: provided, however, that it shall not be lawful
for such judge to appear as counsel in any case pending in his own court,
or which can be carried into the same, or has by appeal or otherwise been
taken. therefrom.