He soon made his farm a model for the neighborhood and managed it so efficiently that he had time to interest himself in farmers' organizations and to hold positions of trust in his township and county.
Thus when the township or city authorities assess and collect taxes from the individual citizens, they collect at one and the same time three distinct taxes--the State tax, the county tax, and the city or township tax.
The townshipsystem is found in the Middle States, but in a modified form.
As each township is surveyed one quarter section of 640 acres is set apart for common schools.
The town or townshipform of government is that of a pure democracy; the States and Federal governments are representative governments or republics.
The New England township is therefore not a thickly settled area.
When she reached the township she found the men armed and ready to begin the slaughter, and the women sad and afraid.
People at a distance heard of her, and one day messengers came from a township many miles away to ask her to visit their chief, who was believed to be dying.
They secured the largest sala, or hall, in the township and scoured the country for musicians--fiddlers and guitar players.
On the following day arrived the king, for whose reception our townshiphad made grand preparations.
The township was on our run, only three miles away, and took its name from the station, and the paddock we used as a race course was just within sight of the house.
Another wonder-child for Australia had been discovered, it seemed--a certain Challis Cameron, a mite of eight years who was creating much excitement in the township of Wilgandra.
But the work seemed smooth and easy, and after so many ups and downs the quiet security of the small hot township seemed delicious to her.
They settled in the township of Stamford, where their descendants are yet.
They go up the bay until they reach township number five.
Every township had one or two Methodist and Baptist chapels.
After the war closed, he went to New Brunswick, and remained there fourteen years, coming to Canada in 1801, and settled in the township of Walsingham.
Then Colonel M'Donnell, with his company, got the fifth township (Marysburgh).
Loyalist services 3,000 acres of land in the township of Vaughan, near Toronto.
The naturalists drew up a paper on the "Probable Extinction of the Crotalus Durissus in the Township of Rockland.
He could see, too, the township of Bulawayo lying in its basin below, and the retreating horsemen now already far away.
Those in charge of the safety of the township had their hands full.
Sky, earth, the distant township beneath, all whirled round and round before him.
There can be no doubt but that, during the period of the rising, and especially during the earlier half of the same, the township of Bulawayo was a very uncomfortable place indeed.
In 1695 the township was many times molested by Indians, and several persons were killed and wounded.
Through the energy of his wife and the influence of her people, the MacDonalds, who owned half the township of Oro, William Gordon obtained the position of township clerk.
She tried to help her father with his township affairs, but he met all her offers of assistance with his indulgent smile, and the remark that little girls could not understand business, and she must not bother her head.
His father, Neokles, was a middle-class Athenian citizen, of the township of Phrearri and the tribe Leontis.
He was assisted in this by Thrasybulus, of thetownship of Steiria, who was present, and spoke in his loud voice, which was said to be the loudest of any Athenian of his time.
There was at Athens one Hyperbolus, of thetownship of Peirithois, whom Thucydides mentions as a worthless man, and one who was constantly ridiculed by the comic dramatists.
Perikles was of the tribe Akamantis, and of the township of Cholargos, and was descended from the noblest families in Athens, on both his father's and mother's side.
But there was a herald among them named Leos, of the township of Agnus, who betrayed the plans of the sons of Pallas to Theseus.
The few inhabitants of the township of Jarlshof had at first heard with alarm, that a person of rank superior to their own was come to reside in the ruinous tenement, which they still called the Castle.
In a township of thirty-six sections of 640 acres, or one square mile to each section, the Dominion retains roughly one half, whilst the C.
The natives point out one of the olden mamaku grounds just to the north of Keteonetea (near the present township of Normanby), where the old Whakaahurangi track went in towards Mount Egmont.
Certain of the chiefs had been down at Waitara township and in New Plymouth, and there they had been approached by the agents of the Government.
Kuerden, upwards of two centuries ago, describes the northern boundary of the township of Euxton-burgh as the "Werden broke.
The township of Elston, in the parish of Preston, formerly written Ethelstan, is situated on the north bank of the Ribble a little above Cuerdale and Red Scar.
We have in Lancashire the township of Bickerstaffe, and an adjoining wood named Bickershaw.
For I was a lad of good prospects, some three or four summers ago-- There wasn't any boy in our township who made a more promising show!
One of these villages, which forms a little township bears the beautiful name of Troy.
Presented by the township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1874.
Even so it is now with Telemachus; his father is away, nor hath he others in the townshipto defend him from distress.
Say, dost thou willingly submit thee to oppression, or do the people through the township hate thee, obedient to the voice of a god?
It was, that each townshipshould be sold out complete before any land could offered in the next one!
I remember having said in another place that in the township of Vinci, in the lower Valdarno, there lived Ser Piero, the father of Leonardo da Vinci, most famous of painters.
Mrs. Ross, and their two daughters, to the dance which was being given down at the township by the bachelors of Deadwater.
To the south, there was nothing beyond the Reserve claiming his official capacity, except the newly grown township of Deadwater, two miles away.
The town and township institutions, which had been the nurseries of resistance in New England, had not been allowed to take root there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "township" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.