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1858. COUNTIES, Division of.—[further continued] .

These wards, called townships
in New England, are the vital principle
of their governments, and have proved themselves
the wisest invention ever devised by the
wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government,
and for its preservation.—
To Samuel Kerchival. Washington ed. vii, 13. Ford ed., x, 41.
(M. 1816)