Section 28. A township charter is a grant of the land within the limits specified, and such tracts of land are called townships. Usually by special act of incorporation, towns are created where the inhabitants are sufficiently numerous.5 An act incorporating a town is not a contract between the State and the inhabitants thereof, and the act may be amended or repealed by the sovereign power which created it.6

611. The words "Town" and "Township" have been used synonymously in referring to the political divisions of the county. Phillips vs. Scales Mound, 195 III., 353. 4 The People vs. Brown, 11 III., 478; Taylor vs. Fort Wayne, 47 Ind., 274; State vs. Mc-Gowan, 138 Mo., 187. The law requires an affirmative vote of a majority of all the citizens within the county entitled to vote on the question and a majority of those voting is insufficient.

5 Wells vs. Burbank, 17 N. H., 393.

6 Westbrook vs. Deering, 63 Me., 231.