It may be county school board or state school board action, as well as that of municipal school boards.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

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.

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 ).

: It is the business of educated people to speak so that no-one may be able to tell in what county their childhood was passed.

Within those entities are the large and small cities or towns, which may or may not be the county seat.

A county may be further subdivided into townships or other administrative jurisdictions under the county's control.

Outside the Anglophone community of nations, the term " county " is often used to describe sub-national jurisdictions that are structurally equivalent to counties in the relationship they have with their national government ; but which may or may not be operationally equivalent to the county as that entity is known in predominantly English-speaking countries.

In states where county government is nonexistent or weak ( e. g., New Hampshire, Vermont ), town government may provide some or all of the local government services.

As a result, Bo and Luke are not allowed to carry firearms ( instead, they often use compound bows, sometimes with arrows tipped with dynamite ) or to leave Hazzard County, although the exact details of their probation terms vary from episode to episode: sometimes it is implied that they would be jailed for merely crossing the county line ; on other occasions, it is shown that they may leave Hazzard as long as they are back within a certain time limit ; several other technicalities of their probation also came into play at various times.

It is the county council that have the responsibility to appoints juries for a tenure of four years under which they may serve in multiple cases.

The county ( and the county seat ) may have been named for Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.

Norfolk may refer to the English county of that name ; it may also refer to:

The significance of the six martlets may be to represent the traditional six sub-divisions of the county known as rapes.

It may also be a canting reference to the title of the historic leading Sussex family, the Earls of Arundel, seated at Arundel Castle in the county, as the French for swallow is hirondelle.

) The county courthouse and county administration are usually located in the county seat, but some functions may also be conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large.

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.

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 ; ;

A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.

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.

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.

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.

Today in Portugal the county mayor can still be referred to as ' edil ' ( e. g. ' O edil de Coimbra ', meaning ' the mayor of Coimbra ').

With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present.

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 ).

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.

Southwark was also the location of several prisons, including those of the Crown or ' Prerogative Courts ', the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, that of the local manors courts e. g. Borough Compter, The Clink, and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the ' White Lion Inn ' ( also called informally the ' Borough Gaol ') and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.

St. Joseph ( informally St. Joe ) is the county seat of Buchanan County and chief city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas.

The University of Hertfordshire ( informally " Hertfordshire University ") is a British new university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, England, from which the university takes its name.

Eleven of the 22 unitary authorities are legally " counties ", and eleven are county boroughs, although informally all are referred to as " counties ".

Royal Air Force Station Woodbridge, ( now known as Woodbridge Airfield, MoD Woodbridge and Rock Barracks, informally RAF Woodbridge ), situated to the east of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk, England, is currently the home of the newly formed 23 Engineer Regiment ( Air Assault ) of the British Army.

In every county there was a group of landowning families, usually with a peer at their head, and these families would informally agree on who would stand for the county at a given election.