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To grant or establish a charter.

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To lease or hire something by charter.

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(of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

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Having a charter.

The city was chartered in 1876.

Valparaiso was settled about 1835, incorporated in 1856 as a village and chartered as a city in 1865.

The first permanent settlement was made about 1836, and Manitowoc was chartered as a city in 1870.

Richmond was first chartered as a city in 1782, and in 1788 it was allowed a representative in the House of Delegates.

The first settlement here was in 1844; and Brazil was incorporated as a town in 1866, and was chartered as a city in 1873.

In 1852 it was chartered as a city of Texas.

C. Van Raalte, and was chartered as a city in 1867.

Streator was laid out in 1868, was incorporated as a village in 1870 and was chartered as a city in 1882.

Rockford was first settled in 1834, and was chartered as a city in 1852.

Shipherd (1802-1844), pastor of a church in Elyria, and the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart (1798-1868), a missionary to the Choctaws of Mississippi, as a home for Oberlin Collegiate Institute, which was chartered in 1834; the name Oberlin College was adopted in 1850.

Elyria was founded about 1819 by Heman Ely, in whose honour it was named; it was selected as the site for the county seat in 1823, and was chartered as a city in 1892.

In 1849 Portsmouth was chartered as a city.

Louisiana was laid out in 1818, was the county-seat from that date until 1825, was incorporated as a town in 1845 and was chartered as a city in 1849.

Springfield was incorporated as a town in 1832 and chartered as a city in 1840.

Up to the beginning of the r9th century the market day was Monday, but the customary Saturday market gradually superseded this old chartered market.

During the wild era of speculation which followed (especially in 1832 - upon the opening of the Chickasaw Cession to settlement) a large number of banks and railroad corporations with banking privileges were chartered.

Monroe was chartered as a city in 1871, and received a new charter in 1902.

Two years later the present name was adopted, and in 1854 Rockland was chartered as a city.

In 18 4 7 the village of Rutland was incorporated, and in 1892 a portion of the township including the village was chartered as a city.

Cambridge was first settled in 1798 by emigrants from the island of Guernsey (whence the name of the county); was laid out as a town in 1806; was incorporated as a village in 1837; and was chartered as a city in 1893.

Fayetteville was chartered as a city in 1893.

Roanoke was the town of Big Lick (founded about 1852; incorporated in 1874; pop. in 1880, 669) until 1882, when it received its present name; in 1884 it was chartered as a city.

Salem was chartered as a city in 1853, and in 1860 was made the capital of the state.

Amherst Academy (opened about 1814, chartered 1816), a co-educational school at which Mary Lyon, the founder of Mt.

Holyoke College, was educated, preceded the college (not co-educational), which was opened in 1821 and was chartered in 1825.

Brenham was settled about 1844, was incorporated in 1866, and was chartered as a city in 1873.

The legislature first met here in 1826; Jefferson City became the county-seat in 1828, and in 1839 was first chartered as a city.

Georgetown is the seat of the Southwestern University (Methodist Episcopal, South, co-educational), formed in 1873 (chartered 1875) by the combination of Ruterville College (Methodist Episcopal, at Ruterville, Texas, chartered in 1840, and closed in 1850), McKenzie College (at Clarksville, Texas, founded in 1841 and closed in 1872), Wesleyan College at San Augustine (chartered in 1844, burned a few years later, and not rebuilt), and Soule University at Chapel Hill (chartered in 1856, but closed in 1870).

The first settlement was made here in 1848; and Georgetown was incorporated as a town in 1866, and was chartered as a city in 1890.

Dover was first chartered as a city in 1855.

In Auburn are the Auburn (State) prison (1816), in connexion with which there is a women's prison; the Auburn Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), founded in 1819, chartered in 1820, and opened for students in 1821; the Robinson school for girls; and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, for the education of working girls, with a building erected in 1907.

It was incorporated in 1814, and was chartered as a city in 1848.

Bangor was chartered as a city in 1834.

Huntington, named in honour of Samuel Huntington (1736-1796), of Connecticut, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was first settled about 1829, was incorporated as a town in 1848 and was chartered as a city in 1873.

The township was formed from parts of Waterbury, Bethany and Oxford, and was incorporated in 1844; the borough was chartered in 1893; and the two were combined in 1895.

Pontiac, named in honour of the famous Indian chief of that name, was laid out as a town in 1818, became the county-seat in 1820, was incorporated as a village in 1837, and was chartered in 1861.

Hamilton is the seat of Colgate University, which was founded in 1819, under the name of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, as a training school for the Baptist ministry, was chartered as Madison University in 1846, and was renamed in 1890 in honour of the Colgate family, several of whom, especially William (1783-1857), the soap manufacturer, and his sons, James Boorman (1818-1904), and Samuel (1822-1897), were its liberal benefactors.

It was incorporated as a town in 1855, was entered by the Wabash road in 1858 and by the Alton in 1872, and was first chartered as a city in 1874.

The settlement of the place, the oldest in the county, was begun in 1847; it was laid out as a town in 1851, incorporated as a village in 1857, chartered as a city in 1865, and for a short time in 1853 was the county-seat.

The Brazilian Company founded by Vieyra, which so materially contributed to preserve its South American possessions to Portugal, had been abolished in 1721 by John V.; but such an instrument being well suited to the bold spirit of Pombal, he established a chartered company again in 1755, to trade exclusively with Maranhao and Para; and in 1759, in spite of the remonstrance of the British Factory at Lisbon, formed another company for Parahyba and Pernambuco.

The settlement of the place, then called the Grand Traverse of the Flint, began in 1820, but Flint's growth was very slow until 1831, when it was platted as a village; it was chartered as a city in 1855.

Marietta was settled about 1840, and was chartered as a city in 1852.

Canton was laid out as a town in 1805, became the county-seat in 1808, was incorporated as a village in 1822 and in 1854 V S chartered as a city.

The Pemberton mills, built in 1853, collapsed and afterwards took fire on the 10th of January 1860; 90 were killed and hundreds severely injured., Lawrence was chartered as a city in 1853, and annexed a small part of Methuen in 1854 and parts of Andover and North Andover in 1879.

It was incorporated as a town in 1894, having previously been a part of Mayfield township; in 1909 it was chartered as a city.

Belfast was chartered as a city in 1850.

Mechanicville (originally called Burrow) was chartered by the county court in 1859, and incorporated as a village in 1870.

Hannibal was laid out as a town in 1819 (its origin going back to Spanish land grants, which gave rise to much litigation) and was first chartered as a city in 1839.

Just west of the city limits is Earlham College (co-educational), opened in 1847, chartered in 1859 and controlled by the Society of Orthodox Friends; in 1908-9 it had 30 instructors, 620 students and a library of 18,000 bound volumes.

Richmond was incorporated as a village in 1818 and chartered as a borough in 1834 and as a city in 1840.