Chap. 566.—An ACT to amend section 14, chapter 154 of the Code of
1873, in relation to the compensation to county and corporation
judges for holding court for other county or corporation judges who
are unable to hold their own court.

Approved March 19, 1884.

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

§14. If any judge of the county court be unable or fuil to
attend a regular term of his court, or be prevented from sit-
ting during the whole term, or any part thereof; or if any
judge of a county court be so situated as to render it improper
in his judgment for him to decide or preside at the trial of
any cause, and it be so entered of record, or if from death or
any other cause there be no judge of such county court, the
judge of any other county court may hold said court either
for the whole term or any part thereof. And if any judge
of any corporation court be unable or fail to attend a regular
term of his court, or be prevented from sitting during the
whole term, or any part thereof; or if any judge of a corpo-
ration court be so situated as to render it improper in his
judgment for him to decide or preside at a trial of any cause,
and it be so entered of record, or if from death or any other
cause there be no judge of such corporation court, any judge
of any other corporation court may hold said court either for
the whole term or any part thereof. The clerk of a county
or corporation court where a vacancy exists, shall certify
such fact to the governor of the state, who is hereby autho-
rized to designate any judge of any county court to hold the
regular terms in the county where the county court judge
has died, or to designate the judge of any corporation court
to hold the regular terms in any corporation where the cor-
poration judge has died, until the vacancy be filled; and for
any service provided for in this section, said judge shall re-
ceive the mileaye prescribed by law, and five dollars per day
for the time he is actually engaged in holding court, to be
paid out of the treasury of the county or corporation in
which said court is held: provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to the hustings courtor to the chancery court
of the city of Richmond.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be
and the same are hereby repealed.

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