•Police power: protection of the health, morals, safety, and convenience of citizens, and provision for the general welfare
•Taxing power: raising revenue to pay salaries of state employees, meet other costs of government, and repay borrowed money
•Proprietary power: public ownership of property, such as airports, energy-producing utilities, and parks
•Power of eminent domain: taking private property at a fair price for various kinds of public projects, such as highway construction
County- Births, Deeds, Deaths, Livestock Brands, Divorce, and Map of Subdivisions
District- Chief record keeper, records acts and precedings of a district court, oversees petit 8 grand jury, warrants and citations, a county with less than 8000 will be combined with both clerk jobs,
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