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A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.
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A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.
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A long pipe for smoking.
Examples of aldermen in a Sentence
The town is governed by a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors.
The corporation consists of a mayor, io aldermen and 30 councillors.
The town was incorporated in 1899, and the corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors.
The town was incorporated in 1890, and is governed by a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors.
The city is governed by a board of aldermen and a mayor (elected biennially), who appoints most of the officials, the street and water board being the principal exception.
The corporation consists of ten aldermen and thirty councillors, and the area of the municipal borough is 8408 acres.
A charter granted in 1421 by Richard de Beauchamp provided that the town should be governed by twelve elected aldermen, but that the constable of the castle should be mayor.
By the charters of 1664 and 1674 the corporation was given the title of mayor, aldermen and burgesses.
The governing body now consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors.
The borough is under a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors.
This court was formerly the county court for the city and was held before the lord mayor, the sheriffs and aldermen, for pleas of land, common pleas and appeals from the sheriffs.
Droitwich is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors.
The borough was incorporated in 1882, and the corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 17 councillors.
The corporation consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen and 30 councillors.
The town is governed by a mayor, 9 aldermen and 27 councillors.
The borough of Doncaster is under a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors.
The municipal borough is under a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors.
The borough was created in 1876 (county borough, 1904), and is governed by a mayor, 12 aldermen and 36 councillors.
He threw himself with great energy into the agitation which led to the incorporation of the city, and was elected one of its first aldermen.
The borough council consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen and 60 councillors.
The borough council consists of a mayor, 5 aldermen and 30 councillors.
It is governed by a mayor, 7 aldermen and 21 councillors.
Banbury is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors.
The first charter of incorporation was granted by Queen Mary in 1553, and instituted a common council consisting of a bailiff, 12 aldermen and 12 chief burgesses; a court of record, one justice of the peace, a Thursday market and two annual fairs.
The town is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 1 2 councillors.
The borough is under a mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors.
By the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 a mayor, aldermen and a council replaced the capital burgesses, the older governing body.
The City Corporation exercises a control over the majority of the London markets, which dates from the close of the 14th century, when dealers were placed under the governance of the mayor and aldermen.
Aldermen hold office for 6 years.
This consists of a Lord Mayor, 26 aldermen and 206 common councilmen, forming the Court of Common Council, which is the principal administrative body.
The Lord Mayor (q.v.) is elected by the Court of Aldermen from two aldermen nominated in the Court of Common Hall by the Livery, an electorate drawn from the members of the ancient trade gilds or Livery Companies (q.v.), which, through their control over the several trades or manufactures, had formerly an influence over the government of the city which from the time of Edward III.
Thus the Lord Mayor and aldermen possess judicial authority, and the police of London are divided into two separate bodies, the Metropolitan and the City Police (see PoLicE).
There are twelve sessions annually, under the Lord Mayor, aldermen and judges.
The separate court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen is held at the Guildhall.
The police courts of the City are held at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor or an alderman sitting as magistrate, and at the Guildhall, where the aldermen preside in rotation.
After the marriage at Canterbury of the king with Eleanor of Provence the royal personages came to London, and were met by the mayor, aldermen and principal citizens to the number of 360, sumptuously apparelled in silken robes embroidered, riding upon stately horses.
The streets were hung with rich cloths of silk arras and tapestry; the aldermen and principal men of the city threw out of their windows handsful of gold and silver, to signify their gladness at the king's return; and the conduits ran with wine, both white and red.
The mayor and aldermen apparelled in orient-grained scarlet, and four hundred commoners in murrey, well mounted, with rich collars and chains, met the king at Blackheath.
The citizens, however, soon found out their mistake, and the lord mayor, aldermen and recorder proclaimed Queen Mary at Cheapside.
This MS. gives us information which was unknown before, but upsets the received opinions as to the early governing position of the aldermen.
From this we learn that the government of the city was in the hands of a mayor and twelve dchevins (skivini); both these names being French, seem for a time to have excluded the Saxon aldermen.
No record has been found of the date when the aldermen became the official advisers of the mayor.
The various wards were each presided over by an alderman from an early period, but we cannot fix the time when they were united as a court of aldermen.
As we do not find any further evidence than the oath of the Commune alluded to of the existence of "dchevins " in London, it is possible that aldermen were elected on the mayor's council under this title.
The aldermen are not mentioned as the colleagues of the mayor until the very end of the 13th century, except in the case of Fitz-Ailwin's Assize of 1189, and this, of course, related specially to the duties of aldermen as heads of the wards of the city.
Although the official form of "The Mayor and Commune " was continued until the end of the 13th century, and it was not until early in the 14th century that the form " Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council " came into existence, there is sufficient evidence to show that the aldermen and common council before that time were acting with the mayor as governors of the city.
In 1377 it was ordered that aldermen could be elected annually, but in 1384 the rule was modified so as to allow an alderman to be reelected for his ward at the expiration of his year of office without any interval.
Distinct rank was accorded to aldermen, and in the Liber Albus we are told that " it is a matter of experience that ever since the year of our Lord 1350, at the sepulture of aldermen, the ancient custom of interment with baronial honours was observed."
When the poll-tax of 1379 was imposed the mayor was assessed as an earl and the aldermen as barons.
The two courts - that of aldermen and that of the common council - were probably formed about the same time, but it is remarkable that we have no definite information on the subject.