Chap. 75.—An ACT to construe the Eleventh Section of act approved March
" 5, 1870, known as the Enabling Act.

Approved May 9, 1870.

Whereas, 2 doubt has arisen as to whether the common-
wealth’s attorneys of cities and towns are officers of the cor-
poration courts or of the circuit courts of said cities or
towns, and therefore whether the corporation judges or the
Circuit judges have the power of appointing said officers under
the eleventh section of the act approved March fifth, eighteen
hundred and seventy, known as the enabling act; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the eleventh
section of the act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and
seventy, entitled an act to enable officers now holding offices
in. Virginia, by military appointment or otherwise, to hold
over, &c., shall be construed to confer the power of appoint-
ing the commonwealth’s attorney for a city or town upon the
jndge of the corporation court of said city or town, and in the
city of Richmond upon the jadge of the hustings court thereof.

2. This act shall be in foree from its passage.