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