Chap. 267.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Fifty-Eight o: the
Act entitled on Act to Provide for a General Eiection, approved Mav
11, 1870.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section fifty-
eight of the act entitled an act to provide for a general election.
approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ԥ 5&8. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any county, cor-
poration or township office, the same shall be filled by the
judge of the county or corporation court of the county or
corporation in which such vacancy shall occur: provided,
however, that when a vacancy shall occur in the office of circuit
court clerk, when the clerk of the county court is not clerk of
the circuit court, such vacancy shall be filled by the judge of
the court in which the vacancy occurs; and provided further,
that when a vacancy occurs in the oftice of hustings court clerk,
attorney for the commonwealth of a city or town, such vacancy
shall be filled by the judge of the hustings court of the city or
town in which such vacancy occurs: and provided further, that
when a vacancy occurs in the office of clerk of the chancery
court of the city otf Richmond, such vacancy shall be filled by
the judge thereof. And all officers, so appointed to fill vacan-
cies, shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective
offices until their successors shall be elected at the next election
after their appointment, and shall have qualified. Writs of
election to fill such vacancies shall be issued by the judges of
the county or corporation courts of the counties or corpora-
tions in which such vacancies occur; so that the same may be
filled at the next election after any such vacancy may occur.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.