navigation laws, and the like.

(2). The regulation of labor.

(3). The maintenance of thoroughfares, including state management
of railways, and that great group of undertakings which we embrace
within the comprehensive terms 'Internal Improvements,' or 'The
Development of the Country.'

(4). The maintenance of postal and telegraph systems, which is very
similar in principle to (3).

(5). The manufacture and distribution of gas, the maintenance of
water-works, &c.

(6). Sanitation, including the regulation of trades for sanitary
purposes.

(7). Education.

(8). Care of the poor and incapable. (9). Care and cultivation of
forests and like matters, such as stocking of rivers with fish.

(10). Sumptuary laws, such as 'prohibition' laws.

Under this second head have been included by no means all of the
functions whose exercise by the government has been attempted or
proposed, but they show the principal ones, and serve to indicate the
nature of the optional field of governmental activity.