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1647 in Watertown (Mass.) Rec. (1894) I. ii. 12 Complaynt is made that the Land giuen in liew of the Towneship; is not a Just satisfaction for the Towneshipp Land.

1774 T. West Descr. View Furness p. xxiii, in Antiq. Furness One general obstacle to the improvement of Furness..is the mixed lands or township fields.

1792 York Herald 30 June One hundred and fifty-seven acres of Land (eighty-five acres whereof are old Inclosure, and the rest Township-field Land).

1794 J. Granger Gen. View Agric. Durham 50 A proper application of the statute duty..is the only thing wanted to make the generality of township roads equally good as the public roads.

1822 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) iii. 29 He was then obliged to seek parish or township relief.

1830 Reg. Pennsylvania 27 Feb. 137/1 Such bridge shall be constructed, and for ever maintained as other county or township bridges are constructed and maintained.

1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 26 Feb. 8/2 They came back yesterday morning and found him under the hay rack of his wagon, frozen in under the ice in the township drain.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlviii. 235 Any county desiring to forsake township organization may do so by a vote of the electors.

1904 Daily Chron. 19 Oct. 8/3 A simple and traditional dramatisation of some scene in early English township life.

1961 Daily Herald (Chicago) 20 Apr. 1/5 The record turnout belied theories that the citizenry would suffer from election fatigue and neglect the polls after township and school elections.

1998 Lucknow (Ont.) Sentinel 18 Mar. 2/5 Several complaints had been received regarding manure, mud and debris being deposited on township roads.