Proceedings of Conferences for the Study and Reform of County Government. Dec. 1913; Jan. 1914. Proceedings of Conferences for Better County Government in New York State, Nov. 1914; Dec. 1916. Review of Reviews, vol. 46, 604 (Nov. 1912). The Discovery of the County Problem. Vol. 55, 185 (Feb. 1917). Running States and Counties on Busi ness Lines. Russell Sage Foundation. Springfield, Ill., Oct. 1917. City and County Administration in APPENDIX NO. 2. ILLINOIS COUNTIES. List of Illinois Counties with areas, population in 1910, and type of County. Clinton Form of County Organization. Township organization. 64,588 22,741 17,075 15,481 10,397 43,975 8,610 18,035 17,372 51,829 34,594 23,517 18,661 22,832 Township organization. 14,281 Township organization. Special Bd. County Commrs. Township organization. 68,008 Township organization. 54,186 Township organization. Illinois Counties with areas, population and type of county govern County Marion Marshall Piatt ment-Concluded. Sq. Miles. in 1910. 569 35,094 396 15,679 17,377 14,200 12,796 19,723 13,508 Form of County Organization. 30,204 Township organization. APPENDIX NO. 3. CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. 1. Illinois constitution, Article X, Counties. Section 1. No new county shall be formed or established by the General Assembly which will reduce the county or counties, or either of them, from which it shall be taken to less contents than four hundred square miles; nor shall any county be formed of less contents; nor shall any line thereof pass within less than ten miles of any county seat of the county or counties proposed to be divided. Sec. 2. No county shall be divided, or have any part stricken therefrom without submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county, nor unless a majority of all the legal voters of the county voting on the question shall vote for the same. Sec. 3. There shall be no territory stricken from any county unless a majority of the voters living in such territory shall petition for such division; and no territory shall be added to any county without the consent of the majority of the voters of the county to which it is proposed to be added. But the portion so stricken off and added to another county, or formed in whole or in part into a new county, shall be holden for and obliged to pay its proportion of the indebtedness of the county from which it has been taken. Sec. 4. No county seat shall be removed until the point to which it is proposed to remove shall be fixed in pursuance of law, and threefifths of the voters of the county, to be ascertained in such manner as shall be provided by general law, shall have voted in favor of its removal to such point; and no person shall vote on such question who has not resided in the county six months and in the election precinct ninety days next preceding such election. The question of the removal of a county seat shall not be oftener submitted than once in ten years to a vote of the people. But when an attempt is made to remove a county seat to a point nearer to the center of the county, then a majority vote shall be necessary. Sec. 5. The General Assembly shall provide, by general law, for township organization, under which any county may organize whenever a majority of the legal voters of such county, voting at any general election, shall so determine; and whenever any county shall adopt township organization, so much of this constitution as provides for the management of the fiscal concerns of the said county by the board of county commissioners, may be dispensed with, and the affairs. of said county may be transacted in such manner as the General Assembly may provide. And in any county that shall have adopted a township organization, the question of continuing the same may be submitted to a vote of the electors of such county, at a general elec tion, in the manner that now is or may be provided by law; and if a majority of all the votes cast upon that question shall be against township organization, then such organization shall cease in said county; and all laws in force in relation to counties not having township organization shall immediately take effect and be in force in such county. No two townships shall have the same name, and the day of holding the annual township meeting shall be uniform throughout the State. Sec. 6. At the first election of county judges under this constitution, there shall be elected in each of the counties in this State not under township organization, three officers, who shall be styled, “The Board of County Commissioners," who shall hold sessions for the transaction of county business as shall be provided by law. One of said commissioners shall hold his office for one year, one for two years and one for three years, to be determined by lot; and every year thereafter one such officer shall be elected in each of said counties for the term of three years. Sec. 7. The county affairs of Cook County shall be managed by a board of commissioners of fifteen persons, ten of whom shall be elected from the city of Chicago and five from towns outside of said city, in such manner as may be provided by law. Sec. 8. In each county there shall be elected the following county officers, at the general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1882: A county judge, county clerk, sheriff and treasurer, and at the election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1884, a coroner and clerk of the circuit court (who may be ex officio recorder of deeds, except in counties having 60,000 and more inhabitants, in which counties a recorder of deeds shall be elected at the general election in 1884). Each of said officers shall enter upon the duties of his office, respectively, on the first Monday of December after his election, and they shall hold their respective offices for the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, that no person having once been elected to the office of sheriff or treasurer shall be eligible to re-election to said office for four years after the expiration of the term for which he shall have been elected. Sec 9. The clerks of all courts of record, the treasurer, sheriff, coroner and recorder of deeds of Cook County, shall receive as their only compensation for their services, salaries to be fixed by law, which shall in no case be as much as the lawful compensation of a judge of the circuit court of said county and shall be paid respectively only out of the fees of the office actually collected. All fees, perquisites and emoluments (above the amount of said salaries) shall be paid into the county treasury. The number of the deputies and assistants of such officers shall be determined by rule of the circuit court, to be entered of record, and their compensation shall be determined by the county board. Sec. 10. The county board, except as provided in section 9 of this article, shall fix the compensation of all county officers, with the amount of their necessary clerk hire, stationery, fuel and other ex |