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LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF NEW-YORK,

PASSED AT THE FIFTYSEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGIS-
LATURE, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF ALBA-
NY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1834.

CHAPTER 1.

AN ACT relative to vacancies and disabilities in the office

of Vice-Chancellor.

Passed January 18, 1834.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

ders.

$1. Whenever the office of vice-chancellor of any Common or

circuit is vacant, common orders, orders by consent of

parties, and orders for the issuing of injunctions or writs

ne exeat upon the certificate of a vice-chancellor or

injunction master, may be entered by the register, assist-

ant register, or clerk residing in such circuit, in the same

manner as if the office of vice-chancellor was not vacant;

and the name of the chancellor shall be inserted in the

caption of such orders.

$ 2. When the office of vice-chancellor of a circuit is Hearing.

vacant, or the vice-chancellor, by reason of continued

sickness, or a legal disability, is unable to hear the ap-

plication, a motion or petition in any suit or proceeding

pending before the vice-chancellor of such circuit, may

be heard by the chancellor, upon the usual notice of the

application to the adverse party. And the decree or or-

der made upon such motion or petition, shall be entered

with the register, assistant register, or clerk residing in

such circuit, with the name of the chancellor in the cap-

tion thereof.

$3. This act shall take effect immediately after the to take

passage thereof.

offect.