Sec. 9. Applicability of act relating to townships.
   That the provisions of an act of the general assembly, ratified the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, entitled an act concerning townships, except when the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be extended to the township to be established in said county.
(Pub. Laws 1869-70, ch. 86, § 9.)