Then, he served as a member of the prefectural assembly of Chiba Prefecture, and in 1881, he assumed the post of Guncho (governor of a county) of Katori County, and made every effort to take measures for flood control of the Tone-gawa River and to realize the conferral of a posthumous rank to Tadataka INO whose hometown was Sawara.
その後千葉県の県議会議員を務め、明治14年（1881年）に香取郡の郡長に就任して利根川の治水対策や佐原出身の伊能忠敬の贈位実現に尽力した。