Chapter XVI.

§1. Why is the incorporation of cities, &c., necessary?

§2. How are city charters obtained? Define _charter_?

§3. What are the principal city officers called? What inferior officers

are elected?

§4. Are the citizens governed wholly by their own laws?

§5. What criminal court is peculiar to cities?

§6. What are village officers usually called?

§7. Illustrate, by example, the necessity of a village incorporation?

§8. Are corporations always formed by special laws?

§9. What is said of incorporated _companies_?

§10. What is peculiar in the nature of corporations?

§11. In what does a state differ from other government corporations?

§12. Wherein do all government corporations differ from incorporated

business companies?

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