kind of political training that nothing in the world except the habit of parliamentary discussion can impart; on the other hand, Virginia at that time gave us in Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Madison, and Marshall, to mention no others—such a group of consummate leaders as the world has seldom seen equalled.

QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT.

1. Why was Virginia more sparsely settled than Massachusetts ? 2. Why was it that towns were built up more slowly in Virginia than in Massachusetts ?

3. How was the great demand for labour in Virginia met?

4. What distinction of classes naturally arose ?

5. Contrast the type of society thus developed in Virginia with that developed in New England.

6. Compare the Virginia parish in its earlier government with the English parish from which it was naturally copied.

7. Show how the vestry became a close corporation.

8. Who were usually chosen as vestrymen, and what were their powers?

9. Compare Virginia's unit of representation in the colonial legislature with that of Massachusetts, and give the reason for the difference.

10. Describe the county court, showing in particular how it became a close corporation.

II. Bring out some of the history wrapped up in the names of county seats.

12. What were the chief powers of the county court?

13. Describe the assessment of the various taxes.

14. What were the sheriff's duties?

15. Describe the organization and command of the militia in each county.

16. Sum up the differences between local government in Virginia and that in New England (1) as to the management of local affairs and (2) as to the choice of local officers. 17. What did Jefferson think of the principle of township government?

18. What was the equivalent in Virginia of the New England

town-meeting?

19. What was the value of this frequent assembling?

20. What schooling in political liberty before the Revolution did Virginia and Massachusetts alike have?

21. What was an impressive feature of the New England

system?

22. What was an impressive feature of the Virginia system?

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS.

1. How many counties are there in your state?

2. Name and place them if the number is small.

3. In what county do you live?

4. Give its dimensions. Are they satisfactory? Why?

5. Give its boundaries.

6. Is there anything interesting in the meaning or origin of its name?

7. How many towns and cities does it contain?

8. What is the county seat? Is it conveniently situated? Reasons for thinking so?

9. If convenient, visit any county building, note the uses to which it is put, and report such facts as may be thus found out.

10. Obtain a deed, no matter how old, and answer these questions about it :

a. Is it recorded? If so, where ?

b. Would it be easy for you to find the record?

c. Why should such a record be kept?

d. What officer has charge of such records?

e. What sort of work must he and his assistants do?

f. The place of such records is called what?

g. What sort of facilities for the public should such a place have? What safety precautions should be observed there?

h. Why should the county keep such records rather than the city or the town?

i. Is there a record of the deed by which the preceding owner came into possession of the property?

j. What sort of title did the first owner have? Is there any record of it? Was the first owner Indian or European?

(The teacher might obtain a deed and base a class exercise upon it. It is easy with a deed for a text to lead pupils to see the common-sense basis of an important county institution, and thereafter to give very sensible views as to what it should be, even if it is not fully known what it is.)

II. Is there a local court for your town or city?

12. How do its cases compare in magnitude with those tried at the county seat?

13. If a man steals and is prosecuted, who becomes the plaintiff ? 14. If a man owes and is sued for debt, who becomes the plain

tiff?

15. What is a criminal action?

16. What is a civil action?

17. What is the result to the defendant in the former case, if he is convicted?

18. What is the result to the defendant in the latter case, if the

decision is against him?

19. Is lying a crime or a sin? May it ever become a crime? 20. Are courts of any service to the vast numbers who are never

brought before them? Why?

21. May good citizens always keep out of the courts if they choose? Is it their duty always to keep out of them? 22. Is there any aversion among people that you know to being brought before the courts? Why?

23. What is the purpose of a jail? Is this purpose realized in fact?

24. Should a disturbance of a serious nature break out in your town, whose immediate duty would it be to quell it? Suppose this duty should prove too difficult to perform, then what?

25. What is the attitude of good citizenship towards officers who are trying to enforce the laws? What is the attitude of good citizenship if the laws are not satisfactory or if the officers are indiscreet in enforcing them?

26. Suppose a man of property dies and leaves a will, what troubles are possible about the disposal of his property? Suppose he leaves no will, what troubles are possible? Whose duty is it to exercise control over such matters and hold people up to legal and honourable conduct in them?

27. What is an executor? What is an administrator? 28. If parents die, whose duty is it to care for their children? If property is left to such children, are they free to use it as they please? What has the county to do with such cases?

29. How much does your town or city contribute towards county expenses? How does this amount compare with that raised by other towns in the county?

30. Give the organization of your county government. 31. Would it be better for the towns to do themselves the work now done for them by the county?

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.

1. THE COUNTY IN ITS BEGINNINGS. This subject is treated in connection with the township in several of the books above mentioned. See especially Howard, Local Const. Hist.

§ 2. THE MODERN COUNTY IN MASSACHUSETTS. There is a good account in Martin's Text Book above mentioned.

§ 3. THE OLD VIRGINIA COUNTY. The best account is in J. H. U. Studies, III., ii.-iii. Edward Ingle, Virginia Local Institutions.

In dealing with the questions on page 69, both teachers and pupils will find Dole's Talks about Law (Boston, 1887) extremely valuable and helpful.

CHAPTER IV.

TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY.

§ 1. Various Local Systems.

We have now completed our outline sketch of town and county government as illustrated in New England on the one hand and in Virginia on the other. There are some important points in the early history of local government in other portions of the original thirteen states, to which we must next call attention; and then we shall be prepared to understand the manner in which our great western country has been organized under civil government. We must first say something about South Carolina and Maryland.

Carolina.

South Carolina was settled from half a century to a century later than Massachusetts and Vir- Parishes ginia, and by two distinct streams of immi- in South gration. The lowlands near the coast were settled by Englishmen and by French Huguenots, but the form of government was purely English. There were parishes, as in Virginia, but popular election played a greater part in them. The vestrymen were elected yearly by all the taxpayers of the parish. The minister was also elected by his people, and after 1719 each parish sent its representatives to the colonial legislature, though in a few instances two parishes were joined together for the purpose of choosing representatives. The system was thus more demo