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.
Named after the Citie of Henricus, Henrico became one of the eight original Shires of Virginia in 1634. It is one of the oldest counties in the United States. The City of Richmond was officially part of Henrico County until 1842, when it became a fully independent city.