Consequently, to ensure that the county seat issue would not be played out again, Davenport built the first county courthouse.

* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

The Chaves county courthouse

The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.

Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as this one in Renville County, Minnesota, pictured in May 2008.

) The county courthouse and county administration are usually located in the county seat, but some functions may also be conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large.

When Tierra Amarilla was designated as the county seat the villagers set about building a courthouse.

That same year the county seat was transferred from Tappan to New City, where a new courthouse was built.

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

Built of brick, at a cost of $ 11, 000, and very similar to the previous courthouse, the new Courthouse began serving the county in the Fall of 1853.

Residents generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, as the Confederate flag flew over the county courthouse for many years following the end of the Civil War.

Later that year, the first post office opened in Hayesville and the first county courthouse was built in 1888, currently it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The first county election was held on March 1, 1823, with 61 voters participating to elect the first three county commissioners — William Offield, James Blevins and John McCollough — who then ordered that the first jail and courthouse be built.

State trial courts are usually located in a courthouse in the county seat.

A courthouse ( sometimes spelled court house ) is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities.

In most counties in the United States, the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house county governmental offices.

The courthouse is usually located in the county seat, although large metropolitan counties may have satellite or annex offices for their courts.

In some places, the courthouse also contains the main administrative office for the county government, or when a new courthouse is constructed, the former one will often be used for other local government offices.

Image: Orange county court house vt. jpg | Orange County, Vermont courthouse

* Bihar County, a historic county of the Kingdom of Hungary

There are nine historic baronies, four in the northern area and five in the south of the county:

The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th Century.

The act called for the creation of statutory counties, based on the ancient / historic counties, but completely corrected for enclaves and exclaves, and adjusted so that all settlements were completely within a single county.

Hawick ( ;, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

** Monmouthshire ( historic ), former Welsh county

There is something of a modern movement amongst Yorkshire residents to attempt to claim the legend of Robin Hood, to the extent that South Yorkshire's new airport, on the site of the redeveloped RAF Finningley airbase near Doncaster, although ironically in the historic county of Nottinghamshire, has been given the name Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield.

Suffolk () is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England.

Taking its name from the historic county of Sussex, the university received its Royal Charter in August 1961.

* Vasa County, a historic county in modern-day Finland

There are eight historic baronies in the county:

There are 24 historic baronies in the county — the most of any county in Ireland.

Caernarfon is the county town of the historic county of Caernarfonshire.

Sussex (; abbreviated Sx ), from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (' South Saxons '), is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

It may also be a canting reference to the title of the historic leading Sussex family, the Earls of Arundel, seated at Arundel Castle in the county, as the French for swallow is hirondelle.

Formerly part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, it remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

* County of Brunswick, historic Saxon vassal county, elevated to Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1235

As Scotland's smallest historic county, it is often nicknamed ' The Wee County '.

Glamorgan or Glamorganshire ( or ) is one of the thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales.

In 1535 the Act of Union made the Lordship of Gower part of the historic county of Glamorgan, and its south-western section became the hundred of Swansea.

The sentence: 360 days' confinement in the county jail.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).

Members of the band and others in the chain of distribution were charged with violating the California Penal Code on a misdemeanor charge carrying a maximum penalty of up to a year in county jail and a base fine of up to $ 2, 000.

The county government operates the county jail, maintains township roads, operates the major local courts, keeps files of deeds and mortgages, maintains vital records, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of welfare and other social services.

Two days later, while being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras broadcasting live.

For example: a subject is arrested, charged with robbery, and is held in county jail awaiting trial.

File: mount-gilead-ohio-jail. jpg | Mansard roof on a county jail, Mount Gilead, Ohio.

Current county jail in Hillsboro.

The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, coordinates local emergency management, operates the major local courts,

In California, unlicensed possession of a flame-throwing device — statutorily defined as " any non-stationary and transportable device designed or intended to emit or propel a burning stream of combustible or flammable liquid a distance of at least 10 feet " H & W 12750 ( a )— is a misdemeanor punishable with a county jail term not exceeding one year OR with a fine not exceeding $ 10, 000 ( CA H & W 12761 ).

The county jail retains prisoners who have been sentenced to a year or less.

The fourteen survivors of the tribe were placed in protective custody in the county jail, but the Paxton Boys returned on December 27, broke into the jail, and butchered the remaining Conestogas.

After serving a week at the county jail, ( he described the experience to a reporter as being " like Palm Springs, but without the riff-raff ") Mitchum spent 43 days ( February 16 to March 30 ) at a Castaic, California, prison farm, with Life magazine photographers right there taking photos of him mopping up in his prison uniform.

The county jail is adjacent to the courthouse, on 4th Street and Pine street.

Thus, the most common interaction between county and city law enforcement personnel is when city police officers deliver suspects to sheriff's deputies for detention or incarceration in the county jail.

A typical criminal defendant will be arraigned and subsequently indicted or held over for trial before a trial court in and for a particular county where the crime occurred, kept in the county jail ( if he is not granted bail or cannot make bail ), prosecuted by the county's district attorney, and tried before a jury selected from that county.

( A separate county sheriff's department is responsible for security of the county courts and administration of the county jail.