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diocese. Other towns in England are distinguished as "boroughs," an old Teutonic word which was originally applied to towns as _fortified_ places.[3] The voting inhabitants of an English city are called "citizens;" those of a borough are called "burgesses." Thus the official corporate designation of Cambridge is "the mayor, aldermen, and _burgesses_ of Cambridge;" but Oxford is the seat of a bishopric, and its corporate designation is "the mayor, aldermen, and _citizens_ of Oxford." [Footnote 3: The word appears in many town names, such as _Edinburgh, Scarborough, Canterbury, Bury St. Edmunds_; and on the Continent, as _Hamburg, Cherbourg, Burgos_, etc. In Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota, the name "borough" is applied to a certain class of municipalities with some of the powers of cities.] QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT. 1. What is the essential difference between township government and county government? 2. What is the distinct advantage of the former? 3. Why is direct government impossible in the county? 4. Speak of the degree of efficiency in county government. 5. Why is direct government impossible in a city? 6. What difficulties in direct government were experienced in Boston in 1820 and many years preceding? 7. What remedy for these difficulties was adopted? 8. Show how the word "town" is used to indicate a. The land of a township. b. A somewhat large collection of streets, houses, and families. c. And even, in some instances, a city. 9. What is the town commonly understood to be in American usage? 10. What is the difference in the United States between a town and a city? 11. What is the difference in England between a town and a city? 12. Distinguish between citizens and burgesses in England. Section 2. _Origin of English Boroughs and Cities_. [Sidenote: "Chesters."] [Sidenote: Coalescence of towns to fortified boroughs.] What, then, was the origin of the English borough or city? In the days when Roman legions occupied for a long time certain military stations in Britain, their camps were apt to become centres of trade and thus to grow into cities. Such places were generally known as _casters_ or _chesters_, from the Latin _castra_, "camp," and there are many of them on the map of England to-day. But these were exceptional cases. As a rule the origin of the borough was as purely English as its name. We have seen that the town was originally the dw
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