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POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.

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Subdivisions Recognized in our Political System, with their Duties and Officers.

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Local peace, small offenses in justice's court; roads, Trustees, justice of the peace, con-
pounds, local nuisances, paupers, taxes.

Main or county roads and bridges; nuisances, public
health, general police, crimes and general offenses,
county court, clerk for public records, administration
of wills, superintendence of schools and of paupers,
collection of taxes for State and county jail, poor-house.
General peace and order; enactment and enforcement
of all laws applicable to the whole State, and under
which all local bodies act, and to which they are sub-
ject (the State laws are the supreme law of the State),
militia drills, corporations, right of suffrage.

stable, clerk, road-master, assessor,
and collector of taxes.

Judge, prosecuting attorney, clerk,
public administrator, sheriff, super-
intendent of schools, coroner, treas-
urer, supervisors or commissioners,
surveyor.

Governor, secretary of state, treas-
urer, attorney-general, superinten-
dent of education, circuit courts and
courts of appeal, public works,
legislature.

President, secretaries of state, treas-
ury, interior, navy, agriculture,
postmaster-general, and attorney-
general, postmasters, revenue col-
lectors of different kinds, and
many other officers and clerks.

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stretched two miles or so, a single street Part of town clings to the the side of monster the like a creeper tr. to the trunk of a tree, and one wonders that the Earthquakes, c which ar so common there do shake not, the houses off into the ocean.

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prefer to live up there to get the
benefit of the sea breezes and
escape the torrents that pour des te
during the rainy season.

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The distance in a straight line "through the base of the mountain would be only about miles, and: a washington engineer once mad plans for a tunnel, but it was too expensive an undertaking.

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