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Studies in Civics

CHAPTER VI
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Compare a mortgage deed with a chattel mortgage.

Account for the differences.

If A buys a farm from B and does not file his deed, who owns the farm?
If a man possessing some property should get into habits of gambling and debauchery, squandering his money and not providing for his family, what could be done?
On what grounds could this interference by a public officer be justified?
Who would be keeper of the jail if the sheriff should be a prisoner?
Why not one of the deputy sheriffs?
Study out carefully the derivation of the words auditor, sheriff, coroner, probate, commissioner, supervisor, superintendent.
The county attorney is usually paid a salary while the register of deeds usually gets the fees of his office.

What seems to govern in the matter?
Name the salaried officers in this county.

The officers who are paid fees.
To whom are school taxes paid?
Town taxes?
County taxes?
State taxes?
How much of the money paid at this time goes to the United States?
How does the tax collector know how much to take from each person?
From whom does he get this book?
The amount of a person's tax depends upon the _value_ of his property and the rate of tax.


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