Title: The government of Ohio, its history, resources and jurisprudence, also, a brief outline of the government of the United States... by Charles R. Brown
Description: Intended as a textbook for students to learn Michigan civics, this volume is still useful as a concise reference book for the structure and functions of State and local government in the 1870s. It also contains fairly brief texts of several dozen laws; including:

-Of Weights and Measures
-Of the Support of Poor Persons
-The Internal Police of the State
-Of the Observance of the Sabbath
-The Law of the Road, Conduct of Drivers
-Trespass upon Cranberry Marshes, Destruction of Canada Thistles
-Of Crimes and Misdemeanors, Treason, Murder, Duels
–Of the Protection of Game, Song Birds, and Musk-Rats