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A Legislative Council was established, of which five members were elected by the small European minority ( only 4, 000 people ), but none by the African population.
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Legislative Council building in Road Town.
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Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.
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The local Country and Liberal Party members decided to form an independent " Country Liberal Party " ( CLP ) to field candidates for the Legislative Council in 1974.
1946 — Legislative Council is established.
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Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.
The Director is also an ex officio member of both the Legislative Assembly and the Executive Council.
Under the DOP, Israel agreed to recognize the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a " Single Territorial Unit " as well as to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
* 1950-Gibraltar's first Legislative Council was opened.
This modification granted Grenadians from 1925 the right to elect 5 of the 15 members of the Legislative Council, on a restricted property franchise enabling the wealthiest 4 % of Grenadian adults to vote.
In 1950 Grenada had its constitution amended to increase the number of elected seats on the Legislative Council from 5 to 8, to be elected by full adult franchise at the 1951 election.
On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.
However the Legislative Council had few powers at this time, with government remaining fully in the hands of the colonial authorities.
A new political party, the Grenada National Party led by Herbert Blaize, contested the 1957 general election and with the cooperation of elected independent members took control of the Legislative Council from the Grenada United Labour Party.
In 1960 another constitutional evolution established the post of Chief Minister, making the leader of the majority party in the Legislative Council, which at that time was Herbert Blaize, effective head of government.
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Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.
Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876.
The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.
However, in November 1992 elections were held for an enlarged Legislative Assembly and the Government was soundly defeated, casting doubt on constitutional reform.
In particular, an attempt by the Legislative Assembly to approve a law that opened up the electricity and telecommunication markets ( controlled by a monopoly of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity-ICE ) to market competition, known as the " Combo " law, was met with strong social opposition.
The CLP dominated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from its establishment in 1978 to 2001, but lost Government in 2001 and was reduced to four parliamentary members in 2005.
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The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.
After the Legislative Yuan rejected Chu, Li was obliged to choose Yan Xishan instead.
Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to send away the Swiss guards, he refused, and was arrested for treason to the nation and sent to Orléans to be tried.
The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.
In 1792, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax was sent to the colony by the French Legislative Assembly as part of the Revolutionary Commission.
The Imperial Legislative Council was enlarged from 25 to 60 members and separate communal representation for Muslims was established in a dramatic step towards representative and responsible government.
The European settlers were allowed to elect representatives to the Legislative Council in 1920, when the colony was established.
Though in jail, Nkrumah's CPP was elected by a landslide taking 34 out of 38 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.
Under the amended constitution, the country's unicameral parliament, the Legislative Assembly, was renamed the National Assembly.
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An Executive Council and a Legislative Council were established, later becoming the foundation of representative legislature in the country.
Rechristened the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union in 1940 and under the new leadership of Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, the union established a political arm, the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, which put Bradshaw in the Legislative Council in 1946.
On this platform Solomon Islanders with experience on the local councils started participation in central government, initially through the bureaucracy and then, from 1960, through the newly established Legislative and Executive Councils.
In 1926, a Legislative Council was established, which was to advise the governor.
In Hong Kong, those early think tanks established in the late 1980s and early 1990s focused on the political development including first direct Legislative Council members election in 1991 and the political framework of " One Country, Two Systems " manifested in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Governor Sir George Grey, sensible to the pressures, inspired an ordinance of the General Legislative Council under which new Legislative Councils would be established in each province with two-thirds of their members elected on a generous franchise.
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The 55th Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1969 established a boundary review board to prevent an increase in small incorporated cities, but proponents of Johnson City's incorporation had filed for an election before the law took effect.
A post office with the name of Vale was established in February 1883, and the community was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 21, 1889.
The post office was established in 1851, and the city was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 17, 1878.
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The medical system was reorganised and Legislative Council, the first of its kind in an Indian state, was established in 1888.
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The University of Alberta was established by the University Act, 1906 in the first session of the new Legislative Assembly, with Premier Alexander C. Rutherford as its sponsor.
While there, he established a relationship with Robert Randal, one of four members representing Lincoln County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada.
At the same time, a Legislative Council was established, of which five members were elected by the small European minority consisting of only 4, 000 people, but none by the African population.
When Northern Rhodesia became a Protectorate under the British Empire on 1 April 1924, a Legislative Council was established on which the Governor of Northern Rhodesia sat ex officio as Presiding Officer.
The Constitutional Act of 1791 had established three branches of government: the Legislative Assembly, an elected lower house ; the Legislative Council, an appointed upper house ; and the Executive Council, which acted as a kind of cabinet for the lieutenant governor.
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