The Tokugawa shogunate consequently recognized Imai as a township whereby so-kaisho (meeting place of a municipality) as seen in Edo, Osaka, Kyoto and Nara was installed and machi-yakunin (municipal officials) such as machi-doshiyori (ward heads) began to manage affairs of the town under supervision of the shogunate.
そこで幕府でも今井を町として認め、江戸・大阪・京都・奈良同様に惣会所を設け、町年寄などの町役人を指揮して町政に当たらせるようになった。