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LEGISLATIVE.
1. _County Boards_:--
Commissioner type
Supervisor type
2. _Functions_:--
County buildings
Poor--Education
Roads and bridges
Taxation
II. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS.
Sheriff and Deputies
Clerk
Treasurer
Register of Deeds, or Recorder
Attorney
Superintendent of Schools
Coroner
Surveyor

(In some States, Assessors and Collectors of Taxes, and Auditors.)

III. JUDICIARY.
County Court
District Court

Relations of Local Officers to State Law.--There are other reasons
than those already given why States are divided into counties. One is
because, in the performance of their duties, the county officers act as
agents for the State; that is, they carry out the State law in their own
localities. For instance, criminals are brought to trial and punished
under State law, but it is administered by local or county officials. So
the surveyor, superintendent of schools, register of deeds, and other
officers act under State laws.


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