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The county can be divided into four major geographic divisions: the low-lying and relatively flat valley of Pumpkin Creek, which occupies about 40 % of the county's area ; a tableland, in places smooth and in others deeply dissected, occupying the southern one-third of the county ; the Wildcat Hills, a highly dissected escarpment that crosses the northwestern portion of the county ; and a small portion of the North Platte River valley in the northeastern corner of the county.
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It recognizes the fact that what helps one county helps its neighbors and that by banding together in an area-wide effort better results can be accomplished than through the go-it-alone approach.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.
It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.
Today in Portugal the county mayor can still be referred to as ' edil ' ( e. g. ' O edil de Coimbra ', meaning ' the mayor of Coimbra ').
This system had been in use since the Spring and Autumn Period, and parts can still be seen in the modern system of Sheng & Xian ( province and county, 省縣 / 省县 ).
Many large towns and villages within the county have merged with the city, due to urban sprawl, so they can be viewed as suburbs of Tirana.
The administrative unit of Hungary is called megye ( historically, they were also called vármegye, or comitatus in Latin ), which can be translated with the word county.
Examples of deer in coats of arms can be found in the arms of Hertfordshire, England, and its county town of Hertford ; both are examples of canting arms, and also in the coat of arms of Northern Ireland.
Th-fronting, L-vocalization and T glottalization can now be found in every county of England ( with L-vocalization being largely absent from Northern England ), whereas before the 1960s the only Cockney feature that was common to all of England, except for much of East Anglia, North East England, Yorkshire and Lancashire was H-dropping.
On February 18, 2004 Daley said he would have " no problem " with Cook County issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, but stopped short of saying he would follow San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom by having the City of Chicago issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, saying only the county clerk's office can issue marriage licenses.
Spring thaws can often swell county waterways, with two of the more destructive floods being those of the Columbia River in June 1894 and May, 1948.
The expression " pays d ' outre-mer " is convenient as it can be understood in French as both " overseas country " and " overseas county / traditional area " ( as evidenced by Pays de la Loire that is a home région, not a home " country ").
In s. 2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of " County Council " or " Cyngor Sir ", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of " County Borough Council " or " Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol "; in all cases the shorter alternative forms " Council " or " Cyngor " can be used.
In the summer, the Gulf Stream can bring days of hot, moist, humid air to the county.
The county is considered to have five school districts, although the actual district boundaries can extend into neighboring counties, and the same is true for neighboring counties ' districts.
Court: The county maintains a small claims court that can handle some civil cases.
Copies of deeds usually can be located in the county recorder's office and maps or plats can usually be found at the county recorder or surveyor's office.
Petitions signed by California state voters equal in number to 12 % of the last vote for the office of governor ( with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 % of the last vote for governor in the county ) can launch a gubernatorial recall election.
However, in the context of Catalonia, the term " county " can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona and of Urgell.
The heavy snow totals across the county can be attributed to the lake-effect, where precipitation is intensified by the warm waters of the Great Salt Lake, which never entirely freezes due to the lake's high salinity.
The lake-effect can affect any area of the county.
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The procedure for determining the amounts of money to be spent by county colleges and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers.
Under the proposal the members of the board of trustees of a county college will be appointed ; ;
It may be county school board or state school board action, as well as that of municipal school boards.
Should a political subdivision, state or county or municipality, be required to furnish public education??
nothing accomplished, and the whole distribution of justice in this county seems to be an absolute farce ''.
It'll be a tedious job, but if you want to try it, the old newspaper files are in the basement here in the county supervisor's office ''.
Five per cent of the voters in each county must sign petitions requesting that the Republicans be allowed to place names of candidates on the general election ballot, or 2
-- 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.
A large, well-stocked library, surrounded in a county by smaller ones, may feel that the demands on its resources are likely to be too great.
The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.
Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.
Regarding alcohol, wines and spirits are to be sold only in the state owned Wine And Spirits shops, where all prices must remain the same throughout the state ( county sales tax may cause the price to differ slightly ).
With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present.
Consequently, to ensure that the county seat issue would not be played out again, Davenport built the first county courthouse.
Henceforth, all administrative counties and county boroughs would be divided into either rural or urban districts, allowing more localised administration.
Furthermore, the increased " county business " could not be handled by the Quarter Sessions, nor was it appropriate to do so.
However, it was felt that large cities and primarily rural areas in the same county could not be well administered by the same body.
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In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.
Henceforth, all administrative counties and county boroughs would be divided into either rural or urban districts, allowing more localised administration.
In other cases, the " traditional " county was divided to form two administrative counties.
Each county or city is divided into Local electoral areas for the election of councillors.
* In Brazil, states ( estados ) are directly divided into municipalities ( municípios ), which are the smallest political-administrative divisions ; there is no equivalent to a county level.
Opole Voivodeship is divided into 12 counties ( powiats ): 1 city county and 11 land counties.
The league consists of the 18 first-class county teams divided into three divisions of six teams each, followed by a knockout stage containing the top 8 teams.
Shanghai is administratively equal to a province and is divided into 17 county-level divisions: 16 districts and one county.
New York City is so large that it is divided into five separate boroughs, each a county in its own right.
One county, Oslo, is not divided into municipalities, rather it is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo.
Most non-metropolitan counties in England are run by county councils and divided into non-metropolitan districts, each with its own council.
A county was divided into several districts, the latter composed of a group of hamlets, each containing about a hundred families.
On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the largest and most populous county in Maryland, would be divided into three smaller units.
The county may be informally divided into a number of traditional districts.
For General elections, the county is divided into two constituencies, Donegal South – West and Donegal North – East, with both having three representatives in Dáil Éireann.
For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is divided into five constituencies — Cork East, Cork North – Central, Cork North – West, Cork South – Central and Cork South – West.
The county is divided into four commissioner districts.
Some sixty years later the town ( at that time a tiny village ) became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and when this state was divided, Bayreuth ended up in the county of Kulmbach.
* Decatur County, Alabama, a short-lived former county whose area was divided between Madison County and Jackson County, Alabama
The area of the former county is now divided between the council areas of Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross and Stirling.
The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1929 divided burghs into two classes from 1930: large burghs, which were to gain extra powers from the county council, and small burghs which lost many of their responsibilities.
In 1930 the landward area of the county ( the part outside of burgh boundaries ) was divided into five districts, replacing the parish councils established in 1894:
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