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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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See: reeve
Quotations
1954
A couple of men I half expected to see laid low with the financial jitters were Oliver Onerheim, the reeve of the municipality, and Louis Anderson, the overseer of the village.
1960
In a city, the executive is the city council, headed by the mayor; in a county, the county council headed by a warden; in a township, the township council headed by a reeve or an overseer.