The County: The 'Dark Continent' of American Politics - Henry S. Gilbertson

Dakota, alternative plans of county government in territory of, [22]
Darke County, O., management of road affairs by board of commissioners, [98]
Dayton, O., city manager plan in, [175]
Defectives, treatment of, in Westchester County, N. Y., [201]
Delaware, lack of accounting law in, [122]
Democracy, spirit of, in early nineteenth century, [25]-[26]
Denver, selection of sheriff by mayor in, [133];
classification as an urban county, [154];
constitutional provisions affecting government of, [155]-[156];
commission form of government in, [156];
power of mayor in, [156];
unified control in, [174]
Deputy (chief) county officers, importance of, and relation to elective superiors, [50]
Direct primary, doubtful value of, in county government, [48]
District attorney (state), origin of, in colonial Connecticut, [12]-[13];
popular interest in, [46];
elected on false issue of law enforcement, [107]-[108];
functions of, [134];
essentially a local officer, [155];
see [New York] (state);
see also [Prosecutor]
District attorney (federal), method of selection contrasted with that of local prosecutors, [33]

Efficiency, Bureau of (in Los Angeles County), [191]
Elective road officials, [96]
Electric railways, effect on rural life and government, [23]
Engineering services, duplication of in Milwaukee, [62]
England, importance of its precedents in colonies, [17]
Erie County, N. Y., form of county government in, [114]
Essex County, N. J., classification as urban county, [154];
county park system in, [163];
office of supervisor in, [173]-[174]
Examiners (state), character of service rendered to local officials, [123]
Executive, how absence of, militates against proper law enforcement, [34]-[35], [74]

Federation, proposed in Alameda County, Cal., [159]-[160]
Feeble-minded, removed from county control, [83]
Fees, attraction of, to politician and disposition of, [50]-[51];
of coroner, [50];
theory of system, [51];
failure of system, [51], [202];
abolishment of, in Los Angeles County, [173]
Finance, laxity in methods of, [70];
in bridge construction, [183]
Fire protection, proposed as county function in Alameda County, Cal., [160]
Flaherty v. Milliken, decision in, involving sheriff’s liability, [53]
Florida, uniform accounting law in, [122]
Freeholders, Board of Chosen, (N. J.), [173]

Georgia, uniform accounting law in, [122]
“Good roads” movement, effect on highway administration, [95], [140]
Governing body, ill-adapted for executive functions, [41];
insufficient control over elective county officers, [41];
see also [Boards of supervisors], [Freeholders], [Commissioners]
Governor, formerly appointed county officers in Kentucky, [28];
ineffective control over county officers, [36];
suggestion that sheriffs be appointed by, [133];
county officers appointed by, in Massachusetts, [158]

Hamilton County (O.), see Cincinnati
Haviland, Dr. C. Floyd, on treatment of insane in Pennsylvania, [88]
Health (public), neglected in rural communities, [60];
beginnings and basic idea of movement for, [83];
county as a unit for administration of, [143];
program of, needed in rural sections, under county control, [195]
Highways, as a unifying factor in modern life, [94];
amount spent in U. S. in 1913, [94];
growing state control over, [95];
diminution of county control over, [140] et seq.;
state aid for, [141];
see also [Roads and bridges]
Home office, relations to county of London, [166]
Home rule (county), [145]-[150];
text of provisions in California constitution, [207]-[218];
proposed constitutional amendment in New York, [247]-[250]
Hospital service, duplication of agencies for, in Milwaukee [61];
see also [County hospital]
Hudson County, N. J., court house scandal in, [7];
boulevard commission in, [38];
separate powers of commission, [38];
park system, [39];
building of court house in, [75];
classification as urban county, [154];
supervisor in, [173]-[174]
Humanitarian functions of county, [80]-[93]

Idaho, establishment of counties in, [22];
county local option in, [150]
Illinois, Southern and New England influence on county system of, [21];
county officers under first constitution of, elective, [28];
system in, [52];
insane in penal institutions of, [87];
report of State Charities Commission on county jails, [91]-[92];
Sabbath law enforcement in, [106];
special county legislation in, [116];
optional county government forms in, [147];
see [Cook County]
Indiana, origin of county in, [20];
county officers under first constitution elective, [28];
county government scandal in 1898, [37];
powers of county commissioners reduced by establishment of council, [37];
illegal payments by county officers in, [78];
law enforcement in, [107];
uniform reporting in, [122]
Industrial revolution, indirect influence on county government, [23]
Insane, removed from county control, [83];
care of, by counties, [87]-[89];
first hospital for, at Utica, N. Y., [137];
see [Cook County], Ill., [New Jersey], [Illinois], [Louisiana], [Pennsylvania]
Institutions (state), see Insane, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, etc.
Iowa, county township system in, [20];
methods employed by supervisors in Woodbury County, [76]-[77];
bridge lobby in legislature of, [101];
state control of highways in, [142];
see [Polk County]

Jail, see [County jail]
Jersey City (N. J.), see [Hudson County], N. J.
Judiciary (state), relation of county officers to, [129]-[132];
importance of reorganization, [131];
(federal) cited as instance of appointive method of selection, [131]
“Jungle,” the, [34]-[42]
Justices of the peace, duties of, in colonial Virginia, [17];
functions in Virginia, [27];
power to commit children to almshouses in New York State, [85];
reorganization of, [131];
jurisdiction of, [132]

Kansas, county-township system in, [20];
report of roads and highways committee, [101];
uniform accounting law in, [122]
Kentucky, influence of Virginia upon county organization of, [20];
county officers made appointive in eighteenth century, [28];
reaction against appointive system in, [29];
lack of accounting law in, [122];
county local option in, [150]
Kings County, N. Y., former office of supervisor-at-large in, [40]
Koochiching County ( Wis.), county health organization in, [196]

Labor, provisions in Los Angeles County charter concerning, [239]
Law enforcement, lax under county officers, [70], [74];
made a political issue, [107];
unification of local agencies for, suggested, [133];
see [Nullification]
Leadership, importance of, in county affairs, [176]
Legislation (county), uniformity in, [112]
Legislative representation, often based upon county, [56]
Lewis, O. F., on county jails in New York, [91]
Libraries, see [County libraries]
Local government, restricted functions of, in early nineteenth century, [27];
new burdens placed upon, as result of congestion of population, [58]
London, functions of county of, [165];
County Council an example of county government unification, [164]-[166]
Long ballot, its effect on organization of county government, [34];
contributions of county to, [62]
Los Angeles County, Cal., charter of, [61], [149], [172], [219], et seq.;
county candidates on ballot of, [62];
civil service in, [191];
public defender in, [200]
Louisiana, police jury in, [21];
insane in parish jails, [87];
uniform accounting law in, [122];
county local option in, [150]

Macy, V. Everit, on operation of poor law in New York State, [84]-[85];
superintendent of the poor, [200]-[203]
Madison, James, influence in favor of retaining original county system in Virginia, [29]
Mail facilities, effect on rural life and government, [24]
Maine, influence of Massachusetts precedents in, [19];
lack of accounting law in, [122]
Marshall, John, influence in favor of retaining original Virginia county system, [29]
Marshals, U. S., method of selection contrasted with that of sheriff, [33], [133]
Maryland, county government, [19];
lack of accounting law in, [122];
highway progress in, [142];
county libraries in, [199]
Massachusetts, origin and early history of county in, [9];
spoils system in, [52];
county prisons in, [90];
uniform accounting law in, [122];
abolition of coroner’s office in, [133];
leader in establishing state penal institutions, [137];
reform institutions in, [137];
state aid in highway construction in, [142];
metropolitan district of, [154]
Medical examiner, suggested as a substitute for coroner, [60];
in Massachusetts, [133];
see also [Chief medical examiner]
Medical referee (in New Hampshire), [134]
Michigan, township-supervisor system in, [20];
uniform accounting law in, [122];
state penitentiary in, [137];
county local option in, [150]
Middle West, insane in almshouses, [87]-[88];
New England influences in, [104]
Milwaukee, Wis., report of City Club of, regarding city and county offices, [61];
county government in, [114];
proposals for city-county consolidation in, [152];
relations to county, [154]
Minnesota, alternative plans of county government in, [22];
uniform accounting law in, [122];
county local option in, [150];
county libraries in, [199]
Mississippi, origin of county system in, [21];
county officers elective in, [29];
lack of accounting law in, [122]
Missouri, county-township system in, [20];
alternative plans of, county organization in, [21];
county officers elective in, [29];
poor law and almshouse administration in, [86];
equalization of taxes in, [110];
lack of accounting law in, [122];
county libraries in, [199]
Monroe County, N. Y., absence of road records in, [98]
Montana, establishment of counties in, [22];
county local option in, [150]
Mosquito Commission, in Hudson County, N. J., [39]