[Sidenote: Lord Valmond's Arrival] The man who took me in kept putting my teeth so on edge that I was obliged to speak to him about it at last.

[Sidenote: and of Western counties.]

[Sidenote: Some effects of the system.]

[Sidenote: The reservation for public schools.]

[Sidenote: In this reservation there were the germs of township government.]

[Sidenote: At first the county system prevailed.]

[Sidenote: The town-meeting in Michigan.]

[Sidenote: Settlement of Illinois.]

[Sidenote: Effects of the Ordinance of 1787.]

[Sidenote: Intense vitality of the township system.]

[Sidenote: County option and township option.]

[Sidenote: Grades of township government.]

[Sidenote: An excellent result of the absence of centralization in the United States.]

[Sidenote: Township government is germinating in the South.]

[Sidenote: woman suffrage.]

[Sidenote: Summary of foregoing results.

[Sidenote: Direct government impossible in a county.]

[Sidenote: The Boston town-meeting in 1820.]

" [Sidenote: Distinctions between towns and cities.

[Sidenote: "Chesters."]

[Sidenote: Coalescence of towns to fortified boroughs.]

[Sidenote: The borough as a hundred.]

[Sidenote: The borough as a county.]

[Sidenote: The guilds.]

[Sidenote: mayor, aldermen, and common council.]