Government and Administration
During the Edo period, the shogunate appointed administrators (machi bugyō) with jurisdiction over the police and (beginning with the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune) the fire department (machibikeshi). The machi bugyō heard criminal and civil suits, and performed other administrative functions.
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