Chap. 3.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section forty of chapter one
hundred and fifty-four of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteer
hundred and seventy-three, in relation to corporation judges not able
to hold courts—who to hold them.

Approved January 3, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty of chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the
Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Ҥ 40. If any judge of a corporation court be unable or fail
to attend 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 improper for him to try it, any other judge of a corporation
court may hold said court, either for the whole term or any
part thereof.”

_ 2. This act shall be in foree from its passage.