Chap. 162.—JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to a suit brought by
the United States against Judge E. H. Fitzhugh.

Approved March 20, 1877.

Whereas the United States has sued Judge H. H. Fitzbugh
for one thousand dollars, which was advanced to him on the
second of April, eighteen, hundred and sixty-five, under the
order of the then governor of the commonwealth; whereas
the said E. H. Fitzhugh did, on or about the thirty-first of
October, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, return said
amount to the commonwealth, and it has been paid into the
treasury; and whereas the state is bound, in good morals
and in plain justice, to hold the said Fitzhugh harmless in
the premises, and the state must be regarded as the real,
though not the nominal defendant; therefore, be it

Resolved (the House of Delegates concurring), That the
attorney-general be, and he is hereby instructed to defend
the aforesaid action brought by the United States against
the said Fitzhugh, and that the governor be, and he is hereby
empowered to indemnify and reimburse to said Fitzhugh any
sum which he may be compeiled to pay, if any, to the United
States, under any judgment rendered against him in said
action.