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(a).—The Primitive Community of Cæsar and Tacitus....................
10-14
(c). The Germ of Representative Government................
22-23
IV.-AFFILIATED AND DIFFERENTIATED FORMS OF THE TOWN-
CHAPTER II.-RISE OF THE NEW ENGLAND TOWN.........
50-99
I-RESTORATION OF THE MARK.....
50-56
II.-RELATION OF THE TOWN TO THE GENERAL COURT......
(a).-The Court was the Source of Authority....................
(b).-The Town was the Constitutional Unit......
56-62
56-59
59-62
CHAPTER III.-THE TOWNSHIP AND ITS DIFFERENTIATED FORMS
IV. THE TOWN OF THE NEW YORK PROVINCE LAWS..
110-112
(d). The Parish as a Unit of Self-Government and Repre-
129-134
(c).-North Carolina Precincts and Parishes............
CHAPTER IV.-RISE OF THE TOWNSHIP IN THE WESTERN STATES, 135-238
I.-EVOLUTION OF THE TOWNSHIP-COUNTY SYSTEM........... 135-156
(a).-The Fundamental Ordinances of 1785 and 1787...... 135-142
(b).—The Sectional Rivalry of Local Organisms.......
(c).-The Economic Rivalry of Local Organisms....
143-148
148-156
PAGE.
v.-VARIOUS TOWNSHIP OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES........ 173-176
(a).-The Clerk.......................
173-174
(b).-The Treasurer..
174-175
(c).-The Constable and the Justice of the Peace......... 175-176
VI. THE ASSESSOR.....
176-191
(a).-Evolution of the Office......................
176-185
(b).-Rise of the Assessor in the American Colonies........ 186-188
(b).—Rise of the Overseer in the American Colonies........ 194-197
(b).-Highway Surveyors in the American Colonies......... 207–210
(b).-Parish Perambulations and Haywards........
215-218
(c).-Perambulators and Fence Viewers in the New Eng-
land and Middle Colonies......
219-222
(d).—The Virginia Processioners....
222-224
(e).-The Western Fence Viewer.....
224-225
X.-THE TOWNSHIP IN THE EAST AND SOUTH.......
225-234
(a).-The Present Constitution of the New England Town, 225-229
(b).-The Reconstruction Township............................................
230-234
XI.-THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS A DIFFERENTIATED FORM OF
THE TOWNSHIP...
234-238
PART II.
THE HUNDRED.
CHAPTER V.-EVOLUTION AND DECAY OF THE HUNDRED OR-
IV.-RISE AND DECAY OF THE HUNDRED IN THE AMERICAN
COLONIES....
272-286
(a).—The Name Hundred in Maine and Virginia............. 272–274
(b).-The Hundred in Maryland.................................
(c). The Hundred in Delaware.....
PART III.
274-281
281-286
THE SHIRE.
CHAPTER VI.-EVOLUTION OF THE SHIRE ORGANISM.
I. THE TRIBE...........
(a).-The Phulê......................
(b).-The Tribus
II.—THE VÖLKERSCHAFT..
(a).-The General Assembly...
(b). The Magistrates.......
(c).-Comitatus......
(d). The Old Saxon Völkerschaft.
III.-THE OLD ENGLISH SHIRE.......
.... 289-318
289-292
289-290
290-292
292-298
292-294
294-295
296
296-298
298-309
(d).-Comparison of the Shire System and the German
(b). The National and the Local Organisms meet in the
County Court........
312-314
v.-THE MODERN ENGLISH COUNTY: DISSOLUTION OF THE
COUNTY COURT..
314-318
CHAPTER VII.-RISE OF THE COUNTY IN THE NEW ENGLAND
(d).—Subordination of the Towns to the County Court...... 333-335
(c).-Equalization of Assessments.....
(d).-Taxes Payable in Kind....
IV. THE SHIRE AS A MILITIA DISTRICT..
(a).-Train Bands............
(b).-The Regiment Formed.........
(c).-Boy Train Bands........
(d).-Overthrow of the Democratic Constitution..........................
v.-GENESIS OF THE PRIMARY AND THE NOMINATING CON-
342-343
343-344
345-351
345-346
347-349
349-350
350-351
351-356
351-352
353-355
(c).-The Shire Proposed as the Unit of Representation.... 355-356
VI.-IMPORTANCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COUNTY AS COM-
PARED WITH THE ENGLISH SHIRE.......
356-357
CHAPTER VIII.-RISE OF THE COUNTY IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES, 358-387
I.-THE NEW YORK COUNTY.....
(a).—The Riding.......................
358-364
358-360
(b).-The County Courts of the Royal Province................ 360-362
(c).-Dual Civil Administration of the Supervisors and
Justices..........
362-363
(d). The County as a Military and Representative Unit,
(1).-Records of a County Court, 1676-1681.........
(2). The County Reconstructed by the Proprietary......
(1).-Prototype of the County-Precinct and Township-
County Systems....................
385-386
(2.)-Origin of Judges and Clerks of Election.........
386-387
CHAPTER IX.-RISE OF THE COUNTY IN VIRGINIA AND THE