
    
      Williams v. Green.
    
   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, is an act of the court. 
      
       Act for the amendment of the law, 1 Rev. Laws, 346. sec. 2.
     