Chap. 102.—An ACT to Amend the 4th and 6th Sections of Chapter 175 of
the Code concerning Commissioners in Chancery.

Approved March 6, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fourth
and sixth sections of chapter one hundred and seventy-five of
the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
Ҥ 4. Accounts to be taken in any case, shall be referred to
& commissioner so appointed, unless the parties interested
agree, or the court shall deem it proper, that they be referred
to some other person. Every commissioner shall examine and
report upon such accounts and matters as may be referred to
him by any court.”

Ҥ 6. Any circuit judge may, in vacation, direct any proper
account to be taken in a cause in a court in his circuit, and on
the application of any party interested, may substitute another
commissioner for one named in a decree already entered in
such cause, or refer any such cause to some person other than
a commissioner, and such person, in respect to such cause,
shall have all the powers of a commissioner.”

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