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. Section 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._ Section 2. THE MODERN COUNTY IN MASSACHUSETTS. There is a good account in Martin's _Text Book_ above mentioned. Section 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. Section 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.