Virginia parishes; the vestry was a close corporation Powers of the vestry The county was the unit of representation The county court was virtually a close corporation The county-seat, or Court House Powers of the court; the sheriff The county-lieutenant Contrast between old Virginia and old New England, in respect of local government Jefferson's opinion of township government "Court-day" in old Virginia Virginia has been prolific in great leaders QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 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 QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 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 QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 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 QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CHAPTER V. THE CITY. Section 1. _Direct and Indirect Government._ Summary of the foregoing results; township government is direct, county government is indirect Representative government is necessitated in a county by the extent of territory, and in a city by the multitude of people Josiah Quincy's account of the Boston town-meeting in 1830 Distinctions between towns and cities in America and in England QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT Section 2. _Origin of English Boroughs and Cities._ Origin of the _chesters_ and _casters_ in Roman camps Coalescence of towns into fortified boroughs The borough as a hundred; it acquires a court