The majority of the emigrants who settle in the northwestern States are natives of New England, and they carry the habits of their mother country with them into that which they adopt.

A township in Ohio is by no means dissimilar from a township in Massachusetts.
[Footnote f: For details see the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, part i.chap.xi.

vol.i.pp.

336-364, entitled, "Of the Powers, Duties, and Privileges of Towns." See in the Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, the words Assessors, Collector, Constables, Overseer of the Poor, Supervisors of Highways; and in the Acts of a general nature of the State of Ohio, the Act of February 25, 1834, relating to townships, p.

412; besides the peculiar dispositions relating to divers town-officers, such as Township's Clerk, Trustees, Overseers of the Poor, Fence Viewers, Appraisers of Property, Township's Treasurer, Constables, Supervisors of Highways.] We have seen that in Massachusetts the mainspring of public administration lies in the township.