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CHAPTER IV.. Township and County.

Civil Government in the United States Considered With Some Reference to Its Origins · John Fiske — chapter 6 of 61 · ~100 words · public domain

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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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