The old system of tolls has been pretty much done away with, and even in the remote townships the Government has been alive to the importance of uninterrupted communication, and has opened up good central highways.
Townships were laid out, and then subdivided into concessions and lots of 200 acres.
These townships were numbered, and remained without names for many years.
No names were given to the townships by legal enactment for a long time, and hence the habit of designating them by numbers became fixed.
Of these numbers there were two divisions: one, including thetownships below Kingston in the line east to the St. Francis settlement; the other, west from Kingston to the head of the Bay of Quinte.
The township in my young days was known as fourth town, as the townships east of it as far as Kingston were known as first, second and third town.
Thus to take the townships with Danish names, and compare with similar districts of Anglo-Saxon names, we arrive at the conclusion as to whether the district was thickly populated before the coming of the Danes.
Taking a large district like the East Riding, the average area of the Danish townships may be expected to fall below that of the Anglo-Saxon.
Although the machinery was set in motion, by the appointment of men and the beginning of work, it was not until 1789 that the survey of the first seven ranges of townships was completed and the land offered for sale.
Provision was then made for the sale of townships alternately entire and by sections of one mile square, or 640 acres each.
Year after year the convention assembled, and year after year the delegates from the rural townships came down to find their duties purely perfunctory, simply to fill up the seats.
These returns from the townships were almost entirely in Bradley's favor, but Cedarville was the decisive vote.
None of that nonsense, Jeff; there ain't an honester woman in the Lost Townships than.
They kept keen scrutiny on the road below, where sometimes they could see the invaders passing in bands in their search for scattered townships or crofts.
Hence the townships become less than six miles from east to west as the survey proceeds northward from any base line.
Starting, then, from any Principal Meridian, the tier of townships directly east is called Range I; the other ranges are numbered east and west of that meridian.
For the boundaries of townships the law requires the use of north-and-south and east-and-west lines.
Since the eastern and western boundaries of townships are meridians, they approach nearer to each other as they go farther north.
Counting also from the Base Line, the townshipsare numbered 1, 2, 3, etc.
Lastly, the governor takes no share in the administration of townships and counties, except it be indirectly in the nomination of justices of the peace, which nomination he has not the power to revoke.
We have already seen that the independent townships of New England protect their own private interests; and the municipal magistrates are the persons to whom the execution of the laws of the state is most frequently intrusted.
All thetownships united have but one representation, which is the state, the centre of the national authority: beyond the action of the township and that of the nation, nothing can be said to exist but the influence of individual exertion.
What, then, is the uniform plan on which the government is conducted, and how is the compliance of the counties and their magistrates, or the townships and their officers, enforced?
The organization of the municipal bodies ortownships differs in the several states: Are we to be guided by what occurs in New England or in Georgia, in Pennsylvania or the state of Illinois?
In speaking of the administration of the United States, I shall have occasion to point out the means by which the townships are compelled to obey in these different cases: I here merely show the existence of the obligation.
I am therefore led to suppose that the prosperity of the American townships and the apparent confusion of their accounts, the distress of the French communes and the perfection of their budget, may be attributable to the same cause.
Application of these Doctrines in the Townships of America.
In Yorkshire the juries of several townships present offenders before the justices.
In the various townships of the manor of Rochdale[238] part of the land was rack-rented.
This fact necessitated the choosing of other townships in which to go to search for vacant lands on our next trip.
Estimators of timber were employed either for themselves or for others, in surveying the lands, and in estimating the pine timber in these various townships that were to be offered at public sale in the month of December.
And if we examine the proceedings of the Vehmic tribunal, we shall see that, in principle, it differs in no essential character from the summary jurisdiction exercised in the townships and hundreds of Anglo-Saxon England.
For a moment it seemed as if Antiochus was disposed to do so; his army appeared in Asia Minor, and occupied some townships of king Attalus, who requested military protection from the Romans.
The system of townships has certainly been one great cause of the prosperity of the United States, each township taxing itself for its own improvement.
Republics, generally speaking, have at their commencement been confined to small portions of territory having been formed by the extension of townships after the inhabitants had become wealthy and ambitious.
He settled himself in the townships bordering on the seignories, and brought a fresh soil and improved cultivation to compete with the worn-out and slovenly farm of the habitant.
The State subsidized these schools, as well as others which were established by private venture in townships where no denomination was sufficiently powerful to establish a school at its own cost.
Of course the mining townships are the centre of gambling with cards; but the passion extends sufficiently widely to do a good deal of harm.
In townships which are large and have many schools under one board and no districts, the people select which school they desire their children to attend.
The companies from the back townships had been remanded, and I received with delight my own again.
United States, but the emigration from Europe has chiefly consisted of the poorer class of Irish Catholics, and of Protestants from the North of Ireland, settled in two very thriving townships in the county of Hastings.
For every hundred it first enumerates the principal jurors who made the return, and then gives the return itself, arranged according to townships (villæ).
Thus the rural townships are brought into line with towns, and we learn that in both the assessment was based on the five-hide unit.
These townships are thus the units of which the Manors they contain are merely the component fractions.
I shall now give some instances of Lindsey townships assessed on the basis of the six-carucate unit: Car.
District Councillor elected for McNab, and Mr. David Airth for Horton; the townships in the rear were being surveyed and had not yet been organized into municipalities.
Even the inhabitants of all the townships in the Bathurst District firmly believed that the land was wholly McNab's.
In 1848 the dispute between the Presbyterian Churches in Scotland reached the Scottish townships on the Ottawa, and McNab, among the rest, was affected with the religious epidemic.
After much consultation, a site was fixed upon the lot of Mrs. James Stewart, on the 2nd concession, and subscription lists were sent through the townships of McNab and Horton to raise funds.
Looked down upon by the neighboring townships as rebels, as ungrateful malcontents and as a discontented rabble, from them they received neither advice nor assistance.
He didn't see as they'd have such a rosy time getting over to these new townships on the other side.
If they heard about the job being blown or the police set on our track, they were to wire to one of the border townships we had to pass.
It was a delightful means of travelling, walking up the hills and stopping at little townships for luncheon in primitive inns.
In the townships of Albion and Christiana, these met and spoke with those who had come there from Jefferson Prairie in 1840.
But in 1848 they began to come in in large numbers in the townships of western Dane County and neighboring parts of Iowa County.
Even Heg was a leading spirit in the settlement in Norway and surrounding townships during his life-time.
The principal Norwegian townships are: Glenwood, Decorah, Springfield, Madison, and Highland.
These two men became the first Norwegians to settle in the townships of Pleasant Spring and Dunkirk respectively in 1843.
The southern extension of the settlement, which took its root at Wind Lake in Norway Township, later spread out so as to include the townships of Yorkville, Raymond and Waterford all in Racine County.
The townships in Dane County in which the Norwegians settled most extensively are found in three groups, viz.
During the next few years immigration to the various townships of western Dane County was rapid.
On the east it extends into Sumner and Oakland townships in Jefferson County.
Our third group of townships comprises Primrose, Perry, Springdale, Blue Mound and that part of Verona Township which lies east of Blue Mound Creek.
With my companions I established thirteen reductions or townshipsin the wilds, and this I did with great anxiety, in hunger, nakedness, and frequent peril of my life.
They were grouped in townships composed of portions of a tribe under a chief to whom the Spaniards gave the position of Alcalde.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "townships" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
