He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

He may have acted as suffragan, or subordinate bishop, to his predecessor Lyfing before formally assuming the bishopric, as from about 1043 Ealdred witnessed as an episcopus, or bishop, and a charter from 1045 or early 1046 names Sihtric as abbot of Tavistock.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

Also, the old airfield at Rabasa was closed and air traffic moved to the new El Altet Airport, which made a more convenient and modern facility for charter flights bringing tourists from northern European countries.

Due to the costs involved in owning, operating and driving buses and coaches, many bus and coach uses a private hire of vehicles from charter bus companies, either for a day or two, or a longer contract basis, where the charter company provides the vehicles and qualified drivers.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

For example, a students ' union may be prohibited as an organization from engaging in activities not concerning students ; if the union becomes involved in non-student activities these activities are considered ultra vires of the union's charter, and nobody would be compelled by the charter to follow them.

Hamburg International provides a charter service from Hamburg via Düsseldorf on Thursdays and Condor operatus from Frankfurt Rhein Main on Tuesdays returning on Wednesday.

Neos operates charter flights from Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumcino and Bologna on Wednesdays.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

The alleged oldest commercial corporation in the world, the Stora Kopparberg mining community in Falun, Sweden, obtained a charter from King Magnus Eriksson in 1347.

Acting under a charter sanctioned by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) defeated Portuguese forces and established itself in the Moluccan Islands in order to profit from the European demand for spices.

" Refusing to give a literal reading to the state-granted charter of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which specified that the company could " collect and receive such tariffs ... as it may prescribe, Hughes contended that this clause " necessarily implies that the charges shall be reasonable and does not detract from the power of the State ... to prescribe reasonable rates.

* Billund Airport ( BLL ), in central Jutland, one of Denmark's busiest cargo centres as well as a popular charter airline destination and an airport for regular flights serving 2. 4 million passengers a year, mainly from the western part of the country.

He is still seeking greater autonomy from China, although Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile has stated " If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or selfdetermination as per the UN charter ".

The move from Connecticut followed a lengthy and sometimes frustrating effort to find resources and secure a charter.

Although the Board elected its members from the two sources of nominees in equal proportions between 1891 and 2007, the Board decided in 2007 to add several new members, all charter trustees.

Restrictions prevent charter schools from charging top-up fees or selecting students, ensuring equality of access.

When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

Buenos Aires refused permission for charter flights from Chile that served cruise ships to fly over Argentina to reach the islands.

" It is possible that Offa did not gain the throne until 758, however, since a charter of 789 describes Offa as being in the thirty-first year of his reign.

Encouraged by his nephews Pepin II and Charles, King of Provence, Louis invaded in 858 ; Charles the Bald could not even raise an army to resist the invasion and fled to Burgundy ; in that year, Louis issued a charter dated " the first year of the reign in West Francia.

Little is known of his reign and only one charter survives, witnessed by king Æthelbald, king Æthelbert and Judith, suggesting that he was on good terms with his brother.

A charter issued in the first year of Æthelberht's reign reflects an extraordinary new kind of assembly: it was the first charter of a West Saxon king to include a full complement both of West Saxon and of Kentish witnesses.

The dates of Æðelberht's reign are unknown beyond the fact that he was a contemporary of Sigeferth, Bishop of Selsey from 733, as Sigeferth witnessed an undated charter of Æðelberht in which Æðelberht is styled Ethelbertus rex Sussaxonum.

One charter is precisely dated to 1 April 675 in the first year of Hlothhere ’ s reign, which conflicts with accession date attributed to him by Bede.

In the charter Olaf agreed to meet with the Danehof at least once a year and return properties his grandfather Valdemar IV had confiscated during his reign.

Æthelbald seems to have reasserted his authority over the West Saxons by the time of his death, since a later West Saxon king, Cynewulf, is recorded as witnessing a charter of Æthelbald at the very beginning of his reign, in 757.

Simon Keynes in 1980 showed that it belongs to the so-called Orthodoxorum group of charters, so named after the initial word of their proem, which he concluded were forgeries based on a charter of Æthelred II's reign.

A witness named Frithuric is recorded on a charter in the reign of Wulfhere's successor, Æthelred, making a grant to the monastery of Peterborough, and the alliteration common in Anglo-Saxon dynasties has led to speculation that the two men may have both come from a Middle Anglian dynasty, with Wulfhere perhaps having placed Frithuwold on the throne of Surrey.

Though the Danish party won a victory at the outset, by obtaining the insertion in the charter of provisions stipulating that only native-born Danes should fill the highest dignities of the state, the king's German Lutheran counsellors continued paramount during his early reign.

In 1650 the town was granted a charter to hold a market and later, in the reign of James II, another charter was granted for the town to collect tolls.

During his reign Copenhagen was made permanently the capital of Denmark ( municipal charter of 1443 ).

During the reign of Henry VI, a Royal Commission regulated encroachments from other musicians on their preserves, and in 1469 Edward VI granted them a Guild charter.

In 1555 a charter of the joint monarchs Philip and Mary restored the cathedral's privileges and initiated restoration and a late document of Queen Mary's reign, a deed dated 27 April 1558, comprises a release or receipt by Thomas Leverous, the new Dean, and the Chapter of St. Patrick's, of the " goods, chattels, musical instruments, etc .," belonging to the Cathedral, and which had been in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church.

The town was granted a charter to hold a market during the reign of King John ( 1196 – 1216 )-a market is still held in the market place in the centre of the town every Saturday.

A special charter in 1363, granted by David II, King of Scots ( reign 1329 – 71 ), awarded the burgh the right to trade across the regality of Dunfermline.

Local tradition asserts that Frome was a medieval borough, and the reeve of Frome is occasionally mentioned in documents after the reign of Edward I, but there is no direct evidence that Frome was a borough and no trace of any charter granted to it.

In the first year of his reign, the royal heralds were incorporated under Royal charter dated 2 March 1484, under the Latin name " Le Garter regis armorum Anglicorum, regis armorum partium Australium, regis armorum partium Borealium, regis armorum Wallæ et heraldorum, prosecutorum, sive pursevandorum armorum.

In 1737, during the reign of George II the College petitioned for another charter, to reaffirm their rights and remuneration, however this effort proved unsuccessful.

Sueno's Stone in ForresOn 23 June 1496 King James IV of Scotland issued a Royal Charter laying down the rights and privileges that the town's people are believed to have held by an earlier charter since the reign of King David I some 300 years earlier.

A charter of 1067 given by William I ( 1028 – 87 ) to Westminster Abbey mentions a church of St. Clement, which is possibly St. Clement Eastcheap, but the earliest definite reference to the church is found in a deed written in the reign of Henry III ( 1207 – 72 ), which mentions ' St Clement Candlewickstrate '.