The 郡区町村編制法, gun-ku-chō-son hensei-hō, (ja) of 1878, the law on the organization of gun (counties/districts), ku (cities/districts/wards), towns and villages, one of the "three new laws" on local government of 1878 that also created prefectural taxation rights and prefectural assemblies (地方三新法, chihō san-shinpō, (ja))
市制, shi-sei(ja), the municipal code for cities of 1888.
