
    Williams against Green.
    Rule for reference at a circuit is void, award of course set aside, but as act of court, without costs.
   IT was ruled that a circuit court cannot order a cause to be referred under the statute. That any award, therefore, under a rule for a reference granted at a circuit, must be .set aside, but without costs, as the rule, though a nullity, ⅛ an act of the court. 
      
       Act for the amendment of the law. 1 Rev. Laws 346. Sec. 2.
     