*g The county assembly has the right of taxing the inhabitants to a certain extent; and in this respect it enjoys the privileges of a real legislative body: at the same time it exercises an executive power in the county, frequently directs the administration of the townships, and restricts their authority within much narrower bounds than in Massachusetts.
[Footnote g: See the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, part i.
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p.340.Id.chap.xii.

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366; also in the Acts of the State of Ohio, an act relating to county commissioners, February 25, 1824, p.263.See the Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, at the words County-rates and Levies, p.170.In the State of New York each township elects a representative, who has a share in the administration of the county as well as in that of the township.] Such are the principal differences which the systems of county and town administration present in the Federal States.