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Collection includes Registrars' Reports, 1960-1968, lists of purged names, one folder of Abstracts of Votes for 1963 and an 1878 Voter Registration Record.

Grayson County (Va.) Justice of the Peace Records, 1868-1947 (bulk 1868-1893), contains Judgments, 1898-1918, Executions, 1904-1947, an Execution Book, 1868-1893, and a volume of Justices' Judgments, 1879-1901. Judgments are civil cases in which justice was administered on the strictly formulated rules of common law. Executions are judicial writs directing the sheriff to satisfy a judgment from a debtor's property. An execution book is a volume used by the justice of the peace to record the financial results of judgments. Recorded are the names of the parties in the suit, date of judgment, amount of judgment, costs, date of execution, to whom execution was delivered for collection, and date execution was returnable. The volume of Justices' Judgments contains the name of persons accused, offense, date of conviction, amount of fine, name of the justice, constable, and clerk, adn associated fees assessed.

Grayson County (Va.) Memorandum Books, 1915-1949, consists of two chancery memorandum books (1915-1933) and two law memorandum books (1933-1949). Memorandum books are used for notations of entries to be made in other books.

Grayson County (Va.) Reports of Indigent Soldiers' Families, 1862-1865, records names of the soldiers and family members, number of children per family, the amount of money or provisions provided to each family and for what use. The reports record that funds were to be used for provisions, shoes and clothing.

Grayson County (Va.) Tax and Fiscal Records, 1852-1965 (bulk 1852-1935) contains Land Tax Books 1852-1935, Poll Tax List 1936-1965, copies of Reassessments, 1875-1915 (taken every five years), Personal Property Tax Books for 1872, 1874, 1877, and 1879, Delinquent Land Tax Books 1884-1913 (bulk 1892-1898), County Court Clerk's Tax Book, 1898-1905, and audit reports.