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.
11/8/2012 in Virginia by Will Hughes. 1860 County map of Virginia, and North Carolina. (Source: Library of Congress). While following the election coverage the other night on the interwebs, I was zooming in and out on the state-by-state and county-by-county voting results. As the precincts reported, I was struck by the incredibly high number of counties in Virginia. The map of the Commonwealth is packed with small jurisdictions, including our very own Arlington County, which is among the smallest counties in the nation.