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Title: Civil Government of Virginia
Author: William F. Fox
Release Date: December, 2003 [EBook #4762]

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA ***

Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA
A TEXT-BOOK FOR SCHOOLS BASED UPON THE CONSTITUTION OF 1902 AND

CONFORMING TO THE LAWS ENACTED IN ACCORDANCE THEREWITH
BY WM. F. FOX
SUPT. OF SCHOOLS, RICHMOND, VA.

NOTE.-Important changes in every part of the fundamental law of
the State were made by the Constitutional Convention of 1901-2.

A great many of these changes did not go into full effect until as
late as Feb. 1, 1904; and some are yet to be made effective by the
operation of laws already passed or to be enacted hereafter. Under
the circumstances the author trusts he may be pardoned if some
errors or omissions are found in this work, but it is believed
that in all essential points it is in harmony with the provisions
of the Constitution and the laws of the State as they stand at the
present time.

CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
I GENERAL PRINCIPLES Bill of Bights--Who May Vote and Hold Office
--Elections
II LEGISLATIVE, DEPARTMENT The Senate--House of Delegates--General
Assembly
III EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Governor--Lieutenant Governor--Attorney
General
IV EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT-Continued

Secretary of the Commonwealth-Treasurer-Auditor of Public
Accounts--Second Auditor--Register of the Land Office--State
Corporation Commission--Superintendent of the Penitentiary--
Superintendent of Public Printing--Commissioner of Agriculture and
Immigration--Commissioners of the Sinking Fund--Board of State
Canvassers

V. JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT
Supreme Court of Appeals--Circuit Courts--Circuit Court of the

City of Richmond
VI. JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT-Continued
Corporation or Hustings Courts--Justices Courts--Hustings Court of

the City of Richmond--Chancery Court of the City of Richmond--Law
and Equity Court of the City of Richmond

VII OFFICERS OF COURTS Clerks--The Tipstaff and Crier--Sheriff-- Commonswealth's Attorney Attorneys at-Law Who May Practice Law in --Virginia Juries--Grand Junes--Petit Jury

VIII. COUNTY ORGANIZATION
Counties

County Officers Sheriff--Commonwealth's Attorney--County Clerk--
Treasurer--Commissioner of the Revenue--Superintendent of the
Poor--County Surveyor-Superintendent of Public Schools County
Board of School Commissioners--Electoral Board--Board of
Supervisors--Assessors--Coroner

IX. DISTRICT ORGANIZATION
Magisterial Districts.--Supervisors.--Justices of the Peace.--

Constable.--Overseer of the Poor.--Conservators of the Peace.
X. GOVERNMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS
Council.--Mayor.--City Sergeant.--Commissioner of the Revenue.

--Commonwealth's Attorney.--Treasurer.--Sheriff of Richmond City.
XI. EDUCATION
State: Board of Education.--Superintendent of Public Instruction.
County: County and City Superintendents.--School Trustee Electoral

Board.--County School Board.
District: School Districts.--School Trustees.--District Board of

School Trustees.
School Funds.
Teachers.
OUTLINES or COLONIAL AND STATE HISTORY Colonial Governors.--State

Governors.
CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA
POPULATION OF VIRGINIA AT VARIOUS DATES

INTRODUCTION.

The word GOVERNMENT means guidance or direction or management. It
means also the person or persons who rule or control any
establishment or institution. Wherever any number of people live
together in one house, or one town, or city, or country, there
must be government of some kind.

In the family the parents are the government. They guide and
manage the affairs of the house. They give orders to their
children as to what they must do and what they must not do, and
they see that their orders are obeyed. This is government, and it
is for the benefit of the family. If the children were to do as
they please, there would be no peace or happiness in the home.

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