St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, from Gov. Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates in this huge operation.

Most counties also have maps available from the county engineer showing roads and other features and from the assessor's office showing ownerships of land.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).

The School also has one of the largest sixth forms in the county.

The New Towns Act of 1946 set up development corporations to construct new towns, while the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 instructed county councils to prepare development plans and also provided compulsory purchase powers.

It is also part of the Wells county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It is also the county seat of Merrimack County.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

Prior to 1969, Carson City was also the county seat of Ormsby County.

It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.

The chalk that is the bedrock of much of the county provides an aquifer that feeds streams and is also exploited to provide water supplies for much of the county and beyond.

Originally, VECs were formed for each administrative county and county borough, and also in a number of larger towns.

The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).

The GAA also uses the term " county " for some of its organisational units in Britain and further afield.

Lansing is the only U. S. state capital ( among the 47 located in counties ) that is not also a county seat.

He has also played county cricket in England, mainly for Lancashire ( 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007 ) where he appeared in twenty-eight first-class games for the club.

The town was founded by merchant George W. Wright, who donated of land in February 1844, when the community was also designated the county seat.

Each county was also to have a sheriff, a coroner, justices of the peace, and constables to serve two-year terms.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

-- After a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the `` coolest election I ever saw in this county ''.

-- The Anne Arundel county school superintendent has asked that the Board of Education return to the practice of recording its proceedings mechanically so that there will be no more question about who said what.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

This system has three tiers, with 12 county administrative courts ( förvaltningsrätt ) as the first tier, four administrative courts of appeal ( kammarrätt ) as the second tier, and the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden ( Regeringsrätten ) as the third tier.

Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the north of the county.

It has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California ; Caceres, Spain ; and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

Domestically speaking, the county has a nationwide cellular telephone system and an extensive network of telephone cables.

The area of the county no longer has a single local authority ; local government is now split between three authorities.

The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86, 900.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The word " county " has come to be used in different senses for different purposes.

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

The county board of commissioners controls the budget but has only limited authority to make laws or ordinances.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 97. 63 %) is land and ( or 2. 37 %) is water.

Nashville has a consolidated city – county government which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system.

This was previously thought to lie in the area around Perth and the southern Strathearn, whereas recent work has convinced those working in the field that Moray ( a name referring to a very much larger area in the High Middle Ages than the county of Moray ), was the core of Fortriu.