From: george.kincaid@worldnet.att.net   
      
   That's an interesting question. I know a lot of the old coal mining towns in   
   WV and KY were basically labor camps. The company owned the houses, ran the   
   schools and business, and paid the medical staff. The town had its own   
   police and fire department. The workers were paid not in money but in script   
   which could get goods at the store or services in the town, but the script   
   had no value elsewhere. I'm sure the state and county had some jurisdiction   
   there, but I don't know what it was. I imagine there are still towns like   
   that.   
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   >> Little law. If you walk into the hotel at Lajitas, the privately owned   
   >> town, early in the morning and you pester the clerk enough, she'll tell   
   >> you who those booted and spurred men are who are sitting in the side   
   >> room drinking coffee. They're employees, and the job title is   
   >> "Peacekeeper." It's a very peaceful place, even though a deputy sheriff   
   >> may only get down there twice a year.   
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   >    Privately owned town?  How can a town be owned privately?   
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