The job was actually conducted in a monthly rotation system (however, for each of the doshin officers who walked around watching town situations, jishinban [the town-watching places operated by townspeople themselves] to patrol were specified, and in that sense, a control territory existed naturally. |
月番制によって交互に業務を行っていたという制度であった(ただし、市中を巡回する廻り方同心は巡回すべき自身番を指定されておりそういった意味での管轄は存在した。 |