Questions Chapter 24 Section 3 1-6
- County
is a major unit of local government; parish is an organized county governments; borough is an organized county government;
township is a unit of local government in the states bounded by New
York and New Jersey
on the east; special district is an independent unit created to perform
one or more related governmental functions at the local level.
- The
two main groups of boards are the boards of comoissioners
and the boards of supervisors.
- The
county governments are inefficeient because
- The
sheriff keeps the jauils, the clerk registers
and records documents like deeds, and the assessor appraises all of the
taxable properties in the county.
These are three things that are elected officials of the counties.
- Town
meetings are used to elect some of the men and women for certain jobs in govenrning the town this is an assembly that is open
to all of the towns eligible voters.