Word Finder - mayor

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The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, &c., formerly usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.

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Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire.

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Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.

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A member of a city council.

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A high justice, an important judge.

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A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.

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A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.

I'm mayor now, until we get around to having an election.

But if the parents wish him to be taught in a private school they must give notice to the mayor of the commune of their intention and the school chosen.

Burton is governed by a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors.

Each mayor, however, sought to supplant the others; the Pippins and Charles Martel succeeded, and their victory was at the same time the victory of Austrasia over Neustria and Burgundy.

The mayor of the palace thus found himself at the head of the commendati, just as he was at the head of the functionaries.

This here's the mayor's office.

The town is governed by a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors.

The other was the mayor, a man with a thin sallow face and narrow beard.

Its members will be distinguished by a red ribbon worn across the shoulder, and the mayor of the city will wear a white belt as well.

The municipal borough is under a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors, and has an area of 2751 acres.

She thinks he was even the mayor for a term, way back before the war.

The town was incorporated in 1890, and is governed by a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors.

The French authorities, under whose eyes the massacre was perpetrated, did nothing to prevent or repress it, and the mayor of Marseilles even refused to admit the wounded Italian workmen to the municipal hospital.

It is administered by an elective municipal council with a civil service administrator as mayor.

The mayor is elected for two years and has the powers and authority in criminal cases of a justice of the peace.

Other elective officers are the mayor, city treasurer, city sergeant, commonwealth attorney, city collector, city auditor, sheriff and high constable, elected for four years; and clerks of the various courts elected for eight years.

At any rate, he spoke at Guildhall on Lord Mayor's Day in a worthy manner; admitting that the growth of the German navy was a main factor in British construction, and pointing out that no power was better able to bear the strain or less likely to fail than Great Britain.

In 1835 a mob, composed in part of wealthy and high-standing citizens, attacked a city-building, and dragged Garrison through the streets until the mayor secured his safety by putting him in gaol.

In 1649 he married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Mayor, or Major, of Hursley in Hampshire.

In 1853, Johann Heinrich Dollfus (1800-1887), mayor of the town, founded the "artisans' town" (cite ouvriere) to the north-east of the old town, consisting of about 1 200 model dwellings with public bath-, washand bakehouses, and library.

Tyler thereupon grew insolent, and in the altercation that ensued the rebel leader was killed by the mayor, Sir William Walworth, and John Standwick, one of the king's squires.

The corporation was prescriptive, and a hallmote held in 1293 was attended by a mayor and twelve jurats.

Banbury is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors.

It has its council of notables, forming a sort of oligarchy which, through the medium of a mayor and two subordinates, directs the interior affairs of the community - policing, recruiting, the assignment and collection of taxes, &c. - and has judicial power in less important suits and crimes.

The town is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 1 2 councillors.

Queenborough Castle was built about 1361 by Edward III., who named the town after Queen Philippa and made it a free borough, with a governing body of a mayor and two bailiffs.

Charters were granted by subsequent sovereigns down to Charles I., who reincorporated the town under the title of the mayor, jurats, bailiffs and burgesses of Queenborough.

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.

At this junction stand the Royal Exchange, the Mansion House (the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London) and the Bank of England, from which this important point in the communications of London is commonly known as " Bank."

In 1902 a Mansion House Conference was convened by the lord mayor and a deputation was appointed which in 1903 pressed the solution of the matter upon the government.

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.

This consists of a Lord Mayor, 26 aldermen and 206 common councilmen, forming the Court of Common Council, which is the principal administrative body.

On April 11, 1582, the lords of the council wrote to the lord mayor to the effect that, as " her Majesty sometimes took delight in those pastimes, it had been thought not unfit, having regard to the season of the year and the clearance of the city from infection, to allow of certain companies of players in London, partly that they might thereby xvi.

When theatres were established the lord mayor took care that they should not be built within the city.

The lord mayor's shows, which had been discontinued for some years, were revived by order of the king in 1609.

On the following lord mayor's day the king witnessed the show in Cheapside and attended the banquet at Guildhall.

The first attempt at a census was in August 1631 when the lord mayor returned the number of mouths in the city of London and Liberties at 130,268, which is only about half the number given above.

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.

Twelve years later (1205-1206) we learn from another document, preserved in the same volume as the oath, that alii probi homines were associated with the mayor and dchevins to form a body of twenty-four (that is, twelve skivini and an equal number of councillors).

No record has been found of the date when the aldermen became the official advisers of the mayor.

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.

In March1298-1299letters were sent from " the Mayor and Commune of the City of London " to the municipalities of Bruges, Caen and Cambray.

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.

When the poll-tax of 1379 was imposed the mayor was assessed as an earl and the aldermen as barons.

After the establishment of the Commune and the appointment of a mayor the sheriffs naturally lost much of their importance, and they became what they are styled in Liber Albus " the Eyes of the Mayor."

In 1383 it was ordained and agreed " that no person shall from henceforth be mayor in the said city if he have not first been sheriff of the said city, to the end that he may be tried in governance and bounty before he attains such estate of the mayoralty."

In 1376 an ordinance was made by the mayor and aldermen, with the assent of the whole commons, to the effect that the companies should select men with whom they were content, and none other should come to the elections of mayors and sheriffs; that the greater companies should not elect more than six, the lesser four and the least two.

The elections in Common Hall were by the whole body of citizens until Edward I.'s reign, citizens were then specially summoned to Common Hall by the mayor.