Chap. 9.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act passed February 21,
1867, entitled an Act Authorizing a Practicing Lawyer of the State of
Virginia to decide causes, or preside at the trial thereof, under certain
circumstances.

Approved December 22, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
passed February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven, entitled an act authorizing a practicing lawyer of the
state of Virginia to decide causes, or preside at the trial thereof,
under certain circumstances, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That when a judge holding a circuit, corporation, or county
court, is so situated as to render it improper, in his judgment,
for him to decide or preside at the trial of any civil cause
pending therein, the parties to such cause, plaintiff and de-
tendant, may, with the consent of such judge, entered of re-
cord in his said court, select a member of the bar practicing
in said court, who shall proceed to try such cause as the judge
would were he sitting; and the judgment or decree rendered
in said cause shall be entered on the record of said court by
the judge of said court as the judgment thereof; and the per-
son so selected to try or preside at the trial of said cause, shall
have power to enforce, order and compel obedience 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.