*u In all that concerns county business the duties of the Court of Sessions are purely administrative; and if in its investigations it occasionally borrows the forms of judicial procedure, it is only with a view to its own information, *v or as a guarantee to the community over which it presides.

But when the administration of the township is brought before it, it always acts as a judicial body, and in some few cases as an official assembly.
[Footnote p: We shall hereafter learn what a Governor is: I shall content myself with remarking in this place that he represents the executive power of the whole State.] [Footnote q: See the Constitution of Massachusetts, chap.II.sect.

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Section 9; chap.III.Section 3.] [Footnote r: Thus, for example, a stranger arrives in a township from a country where a contagious disease prevails, and he falls ill.

Two justices of the peace can, with the assent of the selectmen, order the sheriff of the county to remove and take care of him .-- Act of June 22, 1797, vol.i.p.

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In general the justices interfere in all the important acts of the administration, and give them a semi-judicial character.] [Footnote s: I say the greater number, because certain administrative misdemeanors are brought before ordinary tribunals.