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As all crimes and breaches of the peace are considered as committed against the state, and prosecuted in its name, this attorney is sometimes called state's attorney. In some states there is a county-surveyor, whose duties within his county are similar in their nature to those of a state surveyor-general. County officers are generally elected by the people of the county.
In each circuit a judge is elected by the legislature for four years. There is in each county a county court held by justices of the peace. Justices are elected in the townships for two years. An attorney of state is elected in each judicial district for two years. A sheriff, a coroner, a treasurer and a county-surveyor, are elected in each county for two years.
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