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       CHAPTER I.

      Constitution of Government in Virginia.

§1. Constitution of government in general, 186
2. Governor, his authority and salary, 188
3. Council and their authority, 189
4. House of burgesses, 190

       CHAPTER II.

      Sub-Divisions of Virginia.

§5. Division of the country, 192
6. Division of the country by necks of land, counties and parishes, 192
7. Division of the country by districts for trade by navigation, 194

       CHAPTER III.

      Public Offices of Government.

§8. General officers as are immediately commissionated from the throne, 196
Auditor, Receiver General and Secretary, 196
Salaries of those officers, 197
9. Other general officers, 197
Ecclesiastical commissary and country's treasurer, 197
10. Other public officers by commission, 197
Escheators, 197
Naval officers and collectors, 198
Clerks and sheriffs, 198
Surveyors of land and coroners, 199
11. Other officers without commission, 199

       CHAPTER IV.

      Standing Revenues or Public Funds.

§12. Public funds in general, 200
13. Quit rent fund, 200
14. Funds for maintenance of the government, 201
15. Funds for extraordinary occasions, under the disposition of the assembly, 201
16. Revenue granted by the act of assembly to the college, 202
17. Revenue raised by act of parliament in England from the trade there, 202

       CHAPTER V.

      Levies for Payment of the Public, County and Parish Debts.

§18. Several ways of raising money, 203
Titheables, 203
19. Public levy, 203
20. County levy, 204
21. Parish levy, 204

       CHAPTER VI.

      Courts of Law in Virginia.

§22. Constitution of their courts, 205
23. Several sorts of courts among them, 206
24. General court in particular, and its jurisdiction, 206
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