Posse Comitatus Act. The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. Â§ 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act â in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 â is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, before which West Virginia was part of the state of Virginia.
265,765 Contributions.   Answer   The largest county in Virginia by size is Pittsylvania County with an area of 978 square miles. The largest county by population, as of 2005, is Fairfax Câ¦ounty with a population of 1,006,529.     I believe that pittsylvania county in the center of southern VA is the biggest.