Cook County, Ill., President of Board of Commissioners elected by people, 40; large fees of treasurer in, 51; county commissioners prevent accounting for county treasurer’s fees, 52; duplication of local governments in, 63; humanitarian functions of, 80, 81; prisoners in county jail of, 80; insane cared for by, 81; dependent children cared for by, 81; appropriations for, in 1913, 81 Coroner, origin of, 13; falsity of theory underlying his election, 32; fees of, 50; failures in urban counties, 59; abolition of, proposed, 133; appointive, 172; _see_ Massachusetts, New York (city). Corruption and form of government, 102 Council, powers of, in Indiana counties, 37 Council of appointment in New York State, 28 County, the, treatment of problem in New York constitutional convention, 2, 3; popular apathy concerning, 5; neglect of, in college courses, and by journalists, 6; general statistics concerning, in U. S., 7-8; colonial origin of, 9 _et seq._; legal relation to state government, 10, 11; general manner of its development, 22-23; decline of, in England, 23; unadapted to urban conditions, 24; its failure as a humanitarian agency, 92; relation to state government, 113, 127, 128; power to erect new, 113; limitation on powers of, 113; misuse of funds by, 120; as unit for tax assessment, 125; growing importance of, in certain directions, 143; superiority over town as tax assessment and collection unit, 144; abolishment of, proposed in New York City, 157; the ideal, 168 ---- chambers of commerce, 203 ---- clerk, duties of, 13; independence of county judge, 130; relation to the bench, 135; appointment of advocated, 135; appointive method of selection of, 171, 172 ----committee, actual power in selecting county officers, 48; basis of party organization, 55 ---- court, consisted of justices of the peace in Virginia, 17; its administrative functions in some states, 17; jurisdiction of, 129-132; _see also_ County Judge, Cook County ---- custodian, office of, created in a New York county, 5 ---- governments, lack of control over local policies, 15; ineffectual in operation owing to lack of unity, 43; lack of popular interest in and its effects, 43-44; their stereotyped condition in face of new responsibilities, 60; at work, 66-79; defects in, as affecting highway matters, 95; general criticism of, 170 ---- health officers in North Carolina, 195-196 ---- hospital in Westchester County (N. Y.), 202 ---- jail, separate jurisdiction of, in Milwaukee, 62; overcrowding of, 91; buildings faultily constructed and unsanitary, 91; need of publicity concerning, 92; in Westchester County (N. Y.), 202; insane in, 271-273; _see also_ Cook County, Ill.