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1672 P. Leycester Some Antiq. Cheshire iv, in Hist. Antiq. (1673) 252 A Foot-Bridge at Acton..is now made a County-Bridge.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 226 The objections against county workhouses..seem to require peculiar attention. There is something of unwieldiness in the prospect.

1787 ‘Belvidera’ Abridgem. Plan for Poor of Eng. 37 A patent, as acting superintendent to an establishment for (the reception of the poor) incorporated parishes, and one county establishment annexed to it.

1868 H. Lonsdale Sir J. R. G. Graham vi. 80 The writer is but using the prevalent language of the time in speaking of rats and terriers in the county granary.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 39 [They] would maintain churches on the same principle on which they maintain the county constabulary.

1883 J. F. Stephen Hist. Criminal Law I. vii. 200 In 1856, after an experience of 17 years..an Act..made compulsory the establishment of county police in all parts of England.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlix. 257 There are in some States county high schools and (in most) county boards of education.

1938 Amer. Archivist 1 98 Differing considerably from most county archive inventories..is the inventory of the records of the municipality of Brazoria, Texas.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 715/1 Three of four water samples sent to the county health department..for routine bacterologic analysis had been found to have coliform contamination.

1998 This Caring Business Feb. 2/3 Meanwhile a sensitive fire detector system has gone off again with this false alarm resulting in a bill from the County Fire Department.