A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

Fifteen percent of all arrivals in Greece come through the city of Heraklion ( port and airport ), while charter journeys to Heraklion last year made up 20 % of all charter flights in Greece.

* 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).

* November 10 – The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College ( later renamed Rutgers University ).

Nunna's last surviving charter, which is dated 714 in error for 717, is witnessed by a King Æðelstan.

The winning choice was Nuggets, in honor of the original Nuggets team who played in Denver from 1948 – 50, the last year as a charter member of the NBA.

The charter was signed and the young college was supported by William Franklin ( 1730 – 1813 ), the last Royal Governor of New Jersey and illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin.

* Thunderbird lodge ( 371 ) ( last charter expired on December 31, 1976 )

* Chan-O-Wapi lodge ( 52 ) ( last charter expired on December 31, 1976 )

* Minniduta lodge ( 176 ) ( last charter expired on December 31, 1976 )

* Chatoka lodge ( 183 ) ( last charter expired on December 31, 1976 )

The last Welsh bishop had died in 1115 but the ensuing Norman bishops acquired the ancient jurisdictional rights by use and eventually by a distinct royal charter.

There is also a surviving medieval open strip field system in Wales in the township of Laugharne, which is also the last town in the UK with an intact medieval charter.

The elder Bourbon branch ( as represented by Louis XVIII and later by its last scion, Henri, Comte de Chambord ) was prepared to grant ( octroyer ) a charter of liberties or constitution, but insisted that they ruled by " divine right " and conferred these liberties on their subjects of their own free will.

Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Danforth, the colony's last leaders under the old charter, resumed their posts as governor and deputy governor, but lacked constitutional authority to rule, because the old charter had been vacated.

Chevrolet General Manager Pete Estes started the news conference stating that all attendees of the conference were charter members of the Society for the Elimination of Panthers from the Automotive World and that this would be the first and last meeting of SEPAW.

Professor Hatton-Jones ( Margaret Rutherford ) authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII (" the Rash "), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy.

In 1741, Epping was granted a charter and incorporated as a town, the last New Hampshire town chartered by Governor Jonathan Belcher before the Province of New Hampshire was granted a governor who did not also govern the neighboring Province of Massachusetts Bay.

The last record of a charter there was in 1198.

" The last sentence later became famous as the " founding charter " of Melbourne.

The boundaries delineated in this charter would have been recognisable to most inhabitants for the last thousand years and can still be walked today.

Besides being the last surviving charter member of the Lyceum of Natural History, he held its vice presidency for several years, and was president in 1824-26 and 1838, holding the same office in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1855, and he was one of the original members of the National Academy of Science of the United States, being named as such by act of the United States Congress in 1863.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.