Chapter XV.
--1. Into what are counties divided?
--2. What is done at the annual town meetings?
--3. What officers are elected? Are all there elected in the towns of this state?
--4. What are those officers called who direct town affairs? What in this state?
--5. What are the duties of a town clerk?
--6. What officers in this state have the care of highways? What is a poll-tax?
--7. By whom are the poor provided for? Are there county poor-houses in this state?
--8. The duties of constables?
--9. Of treasurer? Are there town treasurers in this state?
--10. The duties of fence-viewers?
--11. Of town-sealer?
Chapter XVI.
--1. Why is the incorporation of cities, &c., necessary?
--2. How are city charters obtained? Define _charter_?
--3. What are the princ.i.p.al city officers called? What inferior officers are elected?
--4. Are the citizens governed wholly by their own laws?
--5. What criminal court is peculiar to cities?
--6. What are village officers usually called?
--7. Ill.u.s.trate, by example, the necessity of a village incorporation?
--8. Are corporations always formed by special laws?
--9. What is said of incorporated _companies_?
--10. What is peculiar in the nature of corporations?
--11. In what does a state differ from other government corporations?
--12. Wherein do all government corporations differ from incorporated business companies?
Chapter XVII.
--2. What is the business of the judicial department?
--3. If there were no courts of justice, what would be the result?
--4. What are the lowest courts called? Why? Define _jurisdiction_?
--5. To what extent has a justice jurisdiction?
--6. What are civil causes? Criminal? Misdemeanors?
--7. How is a suit in a justice"s court commenced?
--8. How is a summon served?
--9. Describe the manner of joining issue.
--10. How are witnesses procured? and how is the issue tried?
--11. What if a defendant or plaintiff does not appear?
--12. How is judgment confessed?
Chapter XVIII.
--1. Why are juries inst.i.tuted?
--2. What is a _jury_? A _verdict_?
--3. A _venire_?
--4. How are jurors kept during their deliberations?
--5. What is done if they agree? If they disagree?
--6. What is an _execution_? What if it is not satisfied?