Comparative administrative law Volume 1; an analysis of the administrative systems, national and local, of the United States, England, France and Germany

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...see L. 1892, c. 569, sec. 80. 1 Howard, I., 168, and authorities cited. The town board is the real authority in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Ibid., 168-169. 1 8 As in Michigan, Ibid., 170. 4 As in Nebraska and Michigan, Ibid., 170; Cocker, Civil Government in Michigan, 26. 5 Cocker, op. cit., 26. 6 Howard, I., 172. u 'Ibid., 172. 8 See New York Laws of 1840, c. 305; i860, c. 58; 1863, c. 172; 1866, c. 832; 1875, c. 180, now incorporated in L. 1892, c. 569, sees. 172 et seq. Howard, I., 173. //.--The New England system. 1. The county.--The characteristic of the New England system of local administration is that the county is almost ignored. Almost all important local administrative functions are centred in the town, even where the existence of the county as a district for certain purposes of administration is recognized. In Rhode Island the county is to be found, but only in an extremely rudimentary form. Here the county is simply a district for the purposes of judicial administration, but seems to have no juristic personality. Officers in the county, like the sheriff and the clerks of certain courts, are elected by the general assembly of the commonwealth.5 In Vermont also, all real local power is centred in the town; the only administrative business which is given to officers in the county consisting first, of the powers possessed by the sheriff as conservator of the peace and as ministerial officer of the courts and of the powers given to an elected county commissioner to supervise the execution of the laws prohibiting the sale of liquors, which are really enforced by the town agents'; second, of the powers given to the assistant judges of the county courts to control the financial administration of the county, appoint the county ...