Chap. 177.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Fifth Section of an act
entitled an act to Prescribe and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and
Corporation Courts of the Commonwealth, and the Times and Places of
Holding the Same, approved April 2d, 1870.

Approved June 29, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fifth sec-
tion of an act entitled an act to prescribe and define the juris-
diction of the county and corporation courts of the common-
wealth, an@ the times and places of holding the same, approved
April second, eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 5. If any judge of a county court be unable or fail to at-
tend a regular term of his court, or be prevented from sitting
during the whole term, or be so situated in respect to any
cause pending in said court, as, in his opinion, to make it im-
proper for him to try it, or if, from death or other cause, there
be no judge of such county, any other county judge may hold
said court, either for the whole term or any part thereof.”

2. The clerk of the court of the county where a vacancy
exists, shall certify such fact to the governor of the state, who
is hereby authorized to designate any county court judge to
hold the regular terms in said county until the vacancy is filled,
and for such service said judge shall receive the mileage pre-
scribed by law, and five dollars per day for the time in which
he is actually engaged in holding court, to be paid out of the
state treasury by a warrant of the auditor of public accounts
upon the certificate of said judge.

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