Prisoners, classification of, 83, 84; jurisdiction of county over, 90; classification of, systematically violated, 91; transfer of certain classes of, to state institutions advocated, 136-137 Probation, importance of records concerning, 190 Professional politicians, great opportunity of, in obscurity of county government, 47 Prosecutor, appointment of, advocated, 135; _see_ District attorney Public defender, the, 199-200 Public Efficiency Society, work of, in Cook County, Ill., 7 Publicity, importance in county affairs of, 182 Purchasing, duplication of systems in Milwaukee, 62; significance of better methods of, 181; agent, 189; consolidation of local agencies for, 190, 200, 201 Qualifications (legal) of county officers, lack of, 50 Quick, Herbert, on county government in Iowa, 76-77; characterization of county government by, 194 Race track legislation, enforcement of, by local county officers, 106-107 Readjustments of county system, 129-144 Recall, provisions in Los Angeles County charter concerning, 240-244 Reconstruction, of county government, 168-180; formula for, 169 Recorder, appointive, 172 Records, usual lack of, in road management by counties, 98; in Westchester County almshouse, 200-201 Reporting, importance of uniform, 121 Responsibility, lack of in organization of judiciary, 131; necessity for fixing in counties, 170-171 Rhode Island, origin of county in, 9; influence of Massachusetts institutions in, 19; sheriffs appointed by legislature in, 29; lack of accounting law in, 123 Roads and bridges, 94-103; under Los Angeles County charter, 229-231 Rochester, N. Y., proposals for city-county consolidations in, 152 Rural politics, influence of county press on, 55 Rural voter, civic capacity of, 44, 170 St. Louis County (Mo.), city-county consolidation in, 153 Salmon, Dr. Thomas W., on county almshouse care of insane, 89 San Bernardino County, Cal., adoption and amendment of county charter in, 30, 31, 149 San Francisco, classification as an urban county, 154; city-county consolidation in, 158-159 Saxon kingdoms, the original of English counties, 23 Secor, Alson, on bridge lobby at Des Moines, 101-102 Sectionalism, stimulated by governmental organization in some states, 97 Selectmen, functions in colonial Virginia, 16; functions of, in New England, 27