town councillor

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town council
While members of their communities fought, argued and even died for their beliefs the towncouncil added arms to the mayoral chair.
All six had their own civic authority and, by the late nineteenth century, their own towncouncil and town hall.
Despite its mixed composition, the formation of the harbour committee provided a platform from which opposition to the towncouncil was very publicly voiced.
Thereafter, they went from strength to strength until in 1876 they possessed an overall majority in the towncouncil.
Commercial exchange took place in an open, colonnaded undercroft, and an upper chamber combined the functions of guildhall, towncouncil room and court of law.
According to the representatives of the towncouncil the different rooms are described and measured in bays, from north to south.
On the other hand, the leading members of the towncouncil received sumptuous motets at their wedding services.
Only the towncouncil could guarantee urban stability.
In reality, though, he remained a frustrated small-town police commissioner, blocked at every turn by a stubborn towncouncil.
No towncouncil minutes have survived from 1560 to 1580, and consistory records are only available for 1595-8.
It comprised a twenty-member towncouncil headed by a provost.
It also shows that the composition and activity of the towncouncil was by no means a matter of indifference.
Agents and institutions representing the neighbourhood, the towncouncil and the king competed with each other in the restoration of peace.
Whereas in late medieval towns the burghers themselves were responsible for the settlement of conflicts, the towncouncil took over control in a long-ranging process.
It was against this background that, in 1833, the towncouncil put forward a plan to introduce a piped water supply to the town, funded by compulsory assessment.
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