[52] Porter, County Government, p. 42.
[53] Ibid., pp. 27–28.
[54] Hening, Statutes, I, 330, 484.
[55] These rules included prohibitions against extortion of excessive fees, acting as lawyers in their own courts, falsifying revenue returns, multiple job-holding and the like. See Hening, Statutes, I, 265, 297, 330, 333, 465, 523; II, 163, 291. Porter, County Government, 68, comments that "the office of sheriff, judging from the number of acts which the assembly found it necessary to pass, was the problem child of ... [the 18th century], not only in regard to the duties of the office, but also in the method of appointment."
[56] Shepherd, Laws of Virginia, I, 367.
[57] Calendar of State Papers, IV, 416.
[58] Hening, Statutes, XI, 352.
[59] Hening, Statutes, IV, 350.
[60] Hening, Statutes, II, 419; IV, 350.
[61] Hening, Statutes, IX, 351.