Nassau County, N. Y., work of County Association in, 7; recommendations of official commission in, for county home rule, 148 National Municipal League, its report on city-county consolidation, 153, 154 Nebraska, alternative plans of county organization in, 21; activity of bridge builders in legislature of, 102; county libraries in, 199 Nevada, uniform accounting law in, 122 New England, influences operating on local government in, 17; formation of first counties in, 18; county-town relations in, 143 New Hampshire, limited powers of commissioners in, 37-38; convention, powers and duties of, 38; lack of accounting law in, 122; appointive judiciary in, 131 New Jersey, local assessors in, 19; office of supervisor in, 39-40; law affecting sheriff’s appointments, 52; extent of merit system in counties of, 52; insane in penal institutions of, 87; county legislation in, 115-116; state civil service regulation in, 127; the surrogate in, 130; appointive judiciary in, 131; optional county government forms in, 147; _see_ Essex County, Hudson County New Mexico, establishment of county system in, 22; uniform accounting law in, 122 New York (city), special legislation for counties of, 117; abolition of coroners in, 134; city-county consolidation proposals in, 152; extent of city-county consolidation in, 156-157; metropolitan district compared to London, 164 New York (county), large fees of sheriff in, 51 New York (state), counties of, discussed in constitutional convention, 2-3; supervisors in towns of, 19; elective method applied to sheriffs and county clerks in, 29; district attorneys and county judges made elective in, 29; extent of merit system in counties of, 52; legal relation of sheriff to his deputies in, 52-53; requirements as to county advertising, 53; almshouses in, 82; improvement of condition of poor in, 84; New England influences in, 104; enforcement of anti-racing laws in, 106; under-assessment of taxes by local officers, 109; equalization of taxes in, 110; county law in, 114; uniform reporting law in, 121; civil service regulation in, 127; State Board of Charities, its jurisdiction, 128; comptroller, his powers over county officers in, 128; the surrogate in, 130; state prisons in, 137; first state reformatory in, 137; “state” poor in, 138; committee on State Police, 139; highway control in, 142; County Government Association, its recommendations concerning county home rule, 148; metropolitan district of, 154; proposal for county manager in, 178; classification of county accounts in, 184; public health movement in, 195; county libraries in, 199; _see also_ Erie County, Kings County, Monroe County, Orange County, Nassau County, Prison Assn., Westchester County