STATUTE 



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STAVANGER 



years over bitter debates on the War of 1812, 

 on the Bank of the United States and the tar- 

 iff. Here Webster, Calhoun, Douglas and Lin- 

 coln, among other great Americans, received 

 their initiation into the nation's public life. 

 These and other men discussed the issues which 

 finally led to the War of Secession. 



It is entirely fitting that this chamber should 

 now contain the statues of some of the great 

 men of a united nation. Each state, through 

 its legislature, may select two citizens to be 

 honored by statues in marble or bronze. Some 

 of the states have as yet selected only one 

 man, and a few are not yet represented. The 

 only woman chosen is Frances Willard, whose 

 statue was placed in the hall by Illinois in 

 1905. A complete list of all the statues, with 

 the dates on which they were installed, is given 

 below : 



of Richmond and 190 miles southwest of Wash- 

 ington. It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio 

 and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroads. In 1910 

 the population was 10,604; it was 11,654 in 1916 

 (Federal estimate). The area is nearly three 

 square miles. The city is the seat of Staunton 

 Military Academy, Mary Baldwin Seminary 

 and Stuart Hall, and it has the Western State 

 Hospital for the Insane and the Virginia School 

 for the Deaf and Blind. Prominent buildings 

 are the city hall, courthouse and the Masonic 

 Temple. Near by are cemeteries with graves 

 of Confederate and Union soldiers killed in the 

 War of Secession. The city has Gypsy Hill 

 and Highland parks. Staunton is in a rich 

 agricultural valley between the Alleghany and 

 Blue Ridge mountains. Organs, overalls and 

 'flour are among the manufactures. The settle- 

 ment was made near the present site of the 



STATUTE, stat'ute, a written enactment of 

 an authorized lawmaking body. Statute law is 

 another term for written law, and is to be dis- 

 tinguished from unwritten, or common, law. 

 The bodies by which statute law is enacted are 

 known variously as Congress, Parliament, As- 

 sembly, Legislature, etc. The ordinances of 

 city boards of aldermen, or councils, are ex- 

 amples of local statute law, as are the regula- 

 tions adopted by authorized boards of health 

 and sanitation. These are called ordinances, 

 also. The nature of statute law and its rela- 

 tion to other forms of law are discussed in 

 these volumes under the heading LAW. 



STAUNTON, stawn'tun, VA., the county 

 seat of Augusta County, situated in the north- 

 western part of the state, 135 miles northwest 

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city in 1731. The town was incorporated in 

 1761 and it became a city in 1870. It is the 

 birthplace of Woodrow Wilson. G.B.A. 



STAVANGER, stah' vang er, an important 

 seaport of Norway, the Capital of the amt (ad- 

 ministrative division) of Stavanger. It is situ- 

 ated on the southwestern coast, on Stavanger 

 Fiord, an inlet of the North Sea. Christiania 

 is about 190 miles to the northeast. Stavanger 

 is a very old town, built mainly of wood, and 

 it is noted for its great merchant fleet. The 

 foreign trade in fish, timber and- marble is ex- 

 tensive, and there are shipyards, machine shops, 

 cotton factories and woolen mills. An ancient 

 cathedral, built in the Norman style in the 

 thirteenth century, is a feature of interest. 

 Population in 1910, 37,261. 



