CHAPTER IV.
TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY.
Section 1. Various Local Systems.
Parishes in South Carolina
The back country; the "regulators"
The district system
The modern South Carolina county
The counties are too large
Tendency of the school district to develop into something like a township
Local institutions in colonial Maryland; the hundred
Clans; brotherhoods, or phratries; and tribes
Origin of the hundred; the hundred court; the high constable
Decay of the hundred; hundred-meeting in Maryland
The hundred in Delaware; the levy court, or representative county assembly
The old Pennsylvania county
Town-meetings in New Tort
The county board of supervisors
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Section 2. Settlement of the Public Domain.
Westward movement of population along parallels of latitude
Method of surveying the public lands
Origin of townships in the West
Formation of counties in the West
Some effects of this system
The reservation of a section for public schools
In this reservation there were the germs of township government
But at first the county system prevailed
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Section 3. The Representative Township-County System in the West.
The town-meeting in Michigan
Conflict between township and county systems in Illinois
Effects of the Ordinance of 1787
Intense vitality of the township system
County option and township option in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota
Grades of township government in the West
An excellent result of the absence of centralization in the United
States
Effect of the self-governing school district in the South, in preparing the way for the self-governing township
Woman-suffrage in the school district