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County and Township Government in 1940*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Clyde F. Snider
Clyde F. Snider
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University of Illinois
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In times of national or international stress, public attention tends to become focused upon spectacular events transpiring in the nation's capital or chief cities, with little interest displayed in the more prosaic affairs of rural local government. As a consequence, normal progress in rural institutions and activities is likely to be retarded. During 1940, with but few state legislatures in session and popular interest diverted to other fields, little that was distinctly novel occurred in the field of American county and township government. The rural units seemed, in a sense, to be marking time while the national government, and, to a lesser degree, states and cities, concentrated upon various phases of the national defense program. Yet certain developments took place during the year which, if not extraordinary, were nevertheless significant. As in former years, events will be summarized under the following headings: (1) areas; (2) organization and personnel; (3) functions; (4) finance; (5) optional charters; and (6) intergovernmental relations.

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Rural Local Government
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American Political Science Review , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 1941 , pp. 1106 - 1119
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1941

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20 54 Stat. at L. 767.

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32 Joseph W. Nicholson, op. cit., ch. 2. See supra, “Functional Consolidation.”

33 Acts of Kentucky, 1940, ch. 44. The Kentucky courts had already placed the stamp of judicial approval upon use by counties of the “lease with option to purchase.” See this Review, Vol. 32, p. 950. The 1940 statute expired by limitation on January 1, 1941.

34 54 Stat. at L. 667. See infra, “Federal-Local Relations.”

35 Laws of New York, 1940, ch. 638. See this Review, Vol. 31, p. 908; Vol. 33, pp. 1068–1069.

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41 See this Review, Vol. 34, p. 1164.

42 Data supplied by Edward B. Crosland, chief of division of local finance, State Department of Finance, Montgomery, Alabama.

43 The state commissioner of revenue is ex officio state local finance officer.

44 See this Review, Vol. 33, pp. 1066–1067, 1070.

45 First Report of the Kentucky State Local Finance Officer … for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1940.

46 Ibid.

47 See this Review, Vol. 33, p. 1066.

48 Acts of New Jersey, 1939, ch. 385.

49 Data supplied by New Jersey Department of Local Government. See also this Review, Vol. 34, p. 1163; Second Annual Report of the New Jersey Local Government Board, December, 1940.

50 Acts of Louisiana, 1940 (reg. secs.), no. 75; Laws of Mississippi, 1940, chs. 252' 258, 267; Acts of Virginia, 1940, chs. 23, 270.

51 Data supplied by Soil Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. See supra, “Areas.”

52 First Annual Report of the Federal Works Agency (1940), pp. 348–352. See supra, “New Functions.”

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