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CHAPTER III.

THE COUNTY.

Section 1. The County in its Beginnings.

Why do we have counties?

Clans and tribes

The English nation, like the American, grew out of the union of small states

Ealdorman and sheriff; shire-mote and county court

The coroner, or “crown officer”

Justices of the peace; the Quarter Sessions; the lord lieutenant

Decline of the English county; beginnings of counties in Massachusetts

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Section 2. The Modern County in Massachusetts.

County commissioners, etc.; shire-towns and court-houses

Justices of the peace, and trial justices

The sheriff

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Section 3. The Old Virginia County.

Virginia sparsely settled; extensive land grants to individuals

Navigable rivers; absence of towns; slavery

Social position of the settlers

Virginia parishes; the vestry was a close corporation

Powers of the vestry

The county was the unit of representation

The county court was virtually a close corporation

The county-seat, or Court House

Powers of the court; the sheriff

The county-lieutenant

Contrast between old Virginia and old New England, in respect of local government

Jefferson’s opinion of township government

“Court-day” in old Virginia

Virginia has been prolific in great leaders

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CHAPTER IV.

TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY.

Section 1. Various Local Systems.

Parishes in South Carolina

The back country; the “regulators”

The district system

The modern South Carolina county

The counties are too large

Tendency of the school district to develop into something like a township

Local institutions in colonial Maryland; the hundred

Clans; brotherhoods, or phratries; and tribes

Origin of the hundred; the hundred court; the high constable

Decay of the hundred; hundred-meeting in Maryland

The hundred in Delaware; the levy court, or representative county assembly

The old Pennsylvania county

Town-meetings in New Tort

The county board of supervisors

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