New York _Times_, its proposals for abolishment of counties in New York State, 152 Niagara County, N. Y., district attorney quoted concerning rural post office robberies, 138 Niagara Falls, N. Y., city manager plan in, 175 North Carolina, influence of Virginia precedents on, 19; lack of accounting law in, 123; public health movement in, 195; county physicians in, 195; home-study clubs in, 204-205 North Dakota, accounting and reporting legislation in, 122 Northwest, importance of county as unit of government in, 22; New England influences in, 104 Nullification, 104-111 Ohio, county-township system in, 20; county officers in first constitution elective, 28; extent of merit system in counties of, 52; pioneer in county reporting, 121-122; state penitentiary in, 137; highway progress in, 142; county libraries in, 198-199; _see_ Cleveland, Cincinnati, Darke County Oklahoma, uniform accounting law in, 122; public defender in, 199 Omaha, long ballot in, owing to elective county officers, 63 Orange County, N. Y., (County “A”), irregularities of officers of, 70-71 Ordinance of 1787, county officers under, appointive, 28 Oregon, establishment of counties in, 22; county local option in, 150; proposal for county manager in, 178; county libraries in, 199 Parks, county system in Essex County, N. J., 163 Party, organization, importance of county as unit of, 55; baneful effects upon county administration, 191 Payments, frequency of illegal, 188 Pennsylvania, commissioners in, 19; party organization in, 55; care of dependent children in, 86-87; treatment of insane in, 88-89; state constabulary in, 140 Pennybacker, J. E., on highways, 140 _et seq._ Philadelphia, classification as an urban county, 154 Personnel, importance and limitations of, as factor in good government, 67; administrative, 191; _see_ Civil service Police, proposed as county function in Alameda County, Cal., 160; _see_ Constabulary Police functions, county officers unable to perform, in complex communities, 58 Political boss, origin of, in county government, 47-48 Polk County, Iowa, awarding of bridge contracts in, 100 Poor, care of, entrusted to county governments, 14-15; former treatment and present scientific handling of, 82; superintendents of, in N. Y. State, powers of, 85; overseers of, in N. Y. State, commitments by, 85; importance of records concerning, 190; administration of laws dealing with, 200; _see_ Missouri, N. Y. State, Pennsylvania Poverty, prevention of, 201 Press (county), small circulation, lack of independence, 54; need for improving, 194 Prison Association, in New York State, secretary of, quoted, 91