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lic streets, (2) to capture a thief who is plying his trade, (3) to defend a person who is brutally assaulted? Is there anything like lynch law i.e. such interference? Where does the citizen's duty begin and end In such cases? 17. How came the United States to own the public domain or any part of it? (Consult my _Critical Period of Amer. Hist_., pp. 187-207.) 18. How does this domain get into the possession of individuals? 19. Is it right for the United States to give any part of it away? If right, under what conditions is it right? If wrong, under what conditions is It wrong? 20. What is the "homestead act" of the United States, and what is its object? 21. Can perfect squares of the same size be laid out with the range and township lines of the public surveys? Are all the sections of a township of the same size? Explain. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. Section 1. VARIOUS LOCAL SYSTEMS.--_J.H.V. Studies_, I., vi., Edward Ingle, _Parish Institutions of Maryland_; I., vii., John Johnson, _Old Maryland Manors_; I., xii., B.J. Ramage, _Local Government and Free Schools in South Carolina_; III., v.-vii., L. W. Wilhelm, _Local Institutions of Maryland_; IV., i., Irving Elting, _Dutch Village Communities on the Hudson River_. Section 2. SETTLEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.--_J. H. U. Studies_, III., i. H. B. Adams, _Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States_; IV., vii.-ix., Shoshuke Sato, _History of the Land Question in the United States_. Section 3. THE REPRESENTATIVE TOWNSHIP-COUNTY SYSTEM.--_J H. U. Studies_, I., iii., Albert Shaw, _Local Government in Illinois_; I., v., Edward Bemis, _Local Government in Michigan and the Northwest_; II., vii., Jesse Macy, _Institutional Beginnings in a Western State (Iowa)_. For farther illustration of one set of institutions supervening upon another, see also V., v.-vi., J. G. Bourinot, _Local Government in Canada_; VIII., in., D. E. Spencer, _Local Government in Wisconsin_. CHAPTER V. THE CITY. Section 1. _Direct and Indirect Government_. [Sidenote: Summary of foregoing results.] In the foregoing survey of local institutions and their growth, we have had occasion to compare and sometimes to contrast two different methods of government as exemplified on the one hand in the township and on the other hand in the county. In the former we have direct government by a primary assembly,[1] the town-meeting; in the latter we have indirect governmen
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