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.

Lenawee remained attached to Monroe County, out of which it was formed, until an act of the Territorial Legislature passed on December 26, 1826, organized the county government.

This was accomplished by an act of the Territorial Legislature on June 30, 1824, even though county government would not be organized for another year and a half.

The Township of Tecumseh was organized on April 12, 1837, initially encompassing the entire northern third of the county.

Similarly, county, town, city and ward committees, where organized, generally consist of members elected at the local level.

Arlington County, the smallest self-governing county in the United States by land area, is an urban community organized as a county.

Its area was much larger than the present county, however, and was reduced subsequently as more counties were organized.

The county was organized January 2, 1833 and named for Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York.

The county was organized February 28, 1845 and named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

It was the first county to be organized in the Mississippi Territory, eighteen years before Mississippi became a state.

The county was finally organized and separated from Pottawattamie County on March 12, 1853.

The county was organized January 2, 1822 and named in honor of U. S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State.

In 1862 the county was formally organized.

The county was initially organized as Tennessee County, North Carolina, but its name was changed in 1796, the year that Tennessee was admitted as a state, to reduce confusion.

As of the census of 2000, there are 196, 533 people in the county, organized into 65, 698 households and 49, 536 families.

Hampshire County was formed in 1662 out of Middlesex County, an original county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which organized counties in 1643.

On October 8, 1868, the area was again organized into a county, but as Covington County had been renamed " Jones County " the same year ( a change that lasted only a few months ), the new county was named Sanford, in honor of H. C. Sanford of Cherokee County.

The first Jewish resident was Isaac Miranda, who owned property there before the town and county were organized in 1730.

Churchill County was not organized until 1864, and its county seats were Bucklands ( 1861 – 64 ) which is now in Lyon County, La Plata ( 1864 – 68 ), Stillwater ( 1868 – 1904 ) and Fallon ( 1904 – present ).

There are 3, 033 organized county or county-equivalent governments in the United States according to 2007 Census of Governments.

In virtually all U. S. states, the state courts and local law enforcement are organized and implemented along county boundaries, but nearly all of the substantive and procedural law adjudicated in state trial courts originates from the state legislature and state appellate courts.

The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycoming Counties.

It became a county in Wyoming Territory when that territory's government was formally organized on May 19, 1869.

The streets of any county town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in summer ; ;

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.

DeKalb budget shows county is on beam

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.

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

Hoped-for legislative action on adjustment of the county unit system stands less chance than ever.

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

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.

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.

They plan to become county people who know the proper way to terminate a fox's life on earth.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

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.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

Finally, in May 1990, Cuyahoga County voters passed an excise tax on sales of alcohol and cigarettes in the county.

Members of the band and others in the chain of distribution were charged with violating the California Penal Code on a misdemeanor charge carrying a maximum penalty of up to a year in county jail and a base fine of up to $ 2, 000.

HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.

Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.

The plurality election system is used in the Republic of China on Taiwan for executive offices such as county magistrates, mayors, and the president, but not for legislative seats which used the single non-transferable vote system.

* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood destroyed the camp in June 1864.

Essentially, she established an organization which put forth an amendment to the laws of the county which resulted in the firing of many public school teachers on the suspicion that they were homosexual.