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paper township Hist. 
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See also: paper town (def. 1)
- 1945 But, later on, a great part of the so-called private property consisted of tracts in the wilderness taken up by the colonists purely for the timber growing on them, and not for settlement--"paper townships," they were called.
- 1945 But, later on, a great part of the so-called private property consisted of tracts in the wilderness taken up by the colonists purely for the timber growing on them, and not for settlement--"paper townships," they were called.