Everything was granted; the _decemviri_ were forced by the Senate to an unwilling abdication; the tribunate was re-established, and, as no plebeian magistrate existed, the unusual step was taken of having the election conducted by the _pontifex maximus_.[415] A resolution was then elicited from the Plebs by the tribune Duilius that consuls should be created subject to the right of appeal. It was accepted by the Senate,[416] who appointed an _interrex_. The _comitia_ of the centuries returned Valerius and Horatius. Under the guidance of the consuls the assembly proceeded to pass a series of laws (the _leges Valeriae Horatiae_) which more than satisfied the demands of the Plebs. One guaranteed the perpetuity of the _provocatio_ by the enactment that “no one should in future create a magistrate from whom there was no appeal; any one who created such a magistrate should be protected by no law sacred or profane and might be slain with impunity.”[417] The law was evidently called out by the unlimited power of the decemvirate which had just been abolished; it did more than merely affirm the first _lex Valeria_,[418] for it rendered the creation of an absolute judicial power by the _rogatio_ of a magistrate a capital offence, even when this proposal had been accepted by the people. But the scope of the appeal was not extended; the “creation” of a magistrate referred to election sanctioned by the people, and did not, therefore, affect the right of the consul to nominate a dictator from whom there was no appeal; nor did it extend the limits of the appeal beyond the original boundaries—the _pomerium_ or, at the utmost, the first milestone from the city.[419]