Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

In 1974, long-time mayor Lewis Easterlin and a group of concerned citizens decided to promote tourism in the town by turning the clock back and making Andersonville look much as it did during the American Civil War.

The Batswana, a term also used to denote all citizens of Botswana, refers to the country's major ethnic group ( called the " Tswana " in South Africa ).

Until the early seventeenth century the Bandas were ruled by a group of leading citizens, the orang kaya ( literally ' rich men '), each of these was a head of district.

There are also several thousand German citizens and other ethnic Germans residing in Denmark with no historical connection to this group.

In the autumn of 2000, Danish citizens rejected membership of the Euro currency group in a referendum.

A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.

The group destroys munitions from the Falklands War that did not explode at the time and briefs troops, tourists and citizens on the areas which are safe and the minefield marking which have been put in place.

At the same time, a group of Roman troops made up of Campanian " citizens without the vote " also seized control of Rhegium, which lies across the straits on the mainland of Italy.

The Machiavelli family are believed to be descended from the old marquesses of Tuscany and to have produced thirteen Florentine Gonfalonieres of Justice, one of the offices of a group of nine citizens selected by drawing lots every two months, who formed the government, or Signoria.

It was founded by a group of Canarian citizens, devotees of the goddess Chaxiraxi.

Its main purpose was to offer a wider group of citizens an alternative way of opposition against the authoritarian communist regime by means of a peaceful protest that used absurd and nonsensical elements.

The two armed factions entered into open combat before Sergius I was chosen by a group of judges, soldiers, clergy, and citizens.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's social contract theory states that governments draw their power from the governed, its ' sovereign ' people ( usually a certain ethnic group, and the state's limits are legitimated theoretically as that people's lands, although that is often not, rarely exactly, the case ), that no person should have absolute power, and that a legitimate state is one which meets the needs and wishes of its citizens.

Because judges, businessmen, bankers, and politicians were often Masons, ordinary citizens began to think of it as an elitist group.

The IHP + is a group of partner governments, development agencies, civil society and others committed to improving the health of citizens in developing countries.

One of the few untitled servitors of George III to escape this fate was the treasurer Qutlu Arslan who now led a group of nobles and wealthy citizens in a struggle to limit the royal authority by creating a new council, karavi, whose members would alone deliberate and decide policy.

As of 2008, the group has over 4000 members who are " scientists, teachers, clergy, and citizens with diverse religious affiliations.

In each court district where a grand jury is required, a group of 16 – 23 citizens holds an inquiry on criminal complaints brought by the prosecutor and decides if a trial is warranted ( based on the standard that probable cause that a crime was committed exists ), in which case an indictment is issued.

Some planning methods might help an elite group to control ordinary citizens.

In 1488 he joined the highly respected Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch-conservative religious group of some 40 influential citizens of, and 7, 000 ' outer-members ' from around Europe.

This applies to one person who represents a small group ( e. g., the organiser of a social event setting a dress code ) as equally as it does to national governments, which are ultimate trustees, holding representative powers for the benefit of all citizens within their territorial boundaries.

* Malaysian Malays, a constitutionally defined group of Muslim Malaysian citizens

The Cherokee were one of the first, if not the first, major non-European ethnic group to become U. S. citizens.

The IEEE 802. 15 task group 4b was chartered to create a project for specific enhancements and clarifications to the IEEE 802. 15. 4-2003 standard, such as resolving ambiguities, reducing unnecessary complexity, increasing flexibility in security key usage, considerations for newly available frequency allocations, and others.

The IEEE P802. 15 Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee ( SCwng ) is chartered to facilitate and stimulate presentations and discussions on new Wireless related Technologies that may be subject for new 802. 15 standardization projects or to address the whole 802. 15 work group with issues or concerns with current techniques or technologies.

However, should a group of Church of Satan members form a " magic circle " for purposes beyond basic social and ritual interaction, and should that circle remain healthy and active for a year and a day, the leader may apply to have it formalized as a Grotto and be chartered as Grotto Master.

* In 1960, a chartered C-46 Commando crashed, killing a group of American football players from California Polytechnic State University.

The group completed its chartered deliverables in August 2010.

This group was chartered to develop COBOL language extensions for processing collections of records ; the name arose because Charles Bachman's IDS system ( which was the main technical input to the project ) managed relationships between records using chains of pointers.

Tau Kappa Epsilon also had an interest group on campus in the 1990s ; however, the group never became a chartered chapter. Delta Tau Delta began their colonization process in March 2012.

Mandarin Airlines offers group tour chartered flights between Taipei and Pyongyang during summer ( June to August ).

Saint Leo was founded as the first Catholic college in Florida, chartered on June 4, 1889 by a group of Benedictine monks from Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

It soon became apparent that a newsletter by itself was inadequate, and so in 1953 Dr. J. Calvin Holsinger chartered the first Assemblies of God student group at Missouri State University ( formerly Southwest Missouri State University ) in Springfield, Missouri where the Assemblies of God headquarters is located.

The group and chartered for the rescue mission the freighter Cap Anamur, named after a cape off the Turkish coast.

In 2001, the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) set up the PWE3 working group, which was chartered to develop an architecture for service provider edge-to-edge pseudowires, and service-specific documents detailing the encapsulation techniques.

The members of all pledge classes having completed their pledge education while the group was still a colony, and who became brothers when the chapter was chartered, are referred to as " Charter Members.

In May 1729, the Clinton family ( Charles, wife Elizabeth, two daughters, and one son ) chartered a ship from Dublin called the George and Anne and sailed for Philadelphia with a group of neighbors and friends intending to settle in Pennsylvania.

In February 1887 the group was chartered under the laws of Texas as the Alliance of Colored Farmers.

In 2001, the IETF set up the PWE3 working group, which was chartered to develop an architecture for edge-to-edge pseudowires, and to produce specifications for various services, including TDM.

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims ' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his " Great Pleasure Excursion " on board the chartered vessel Quaker City ( formerly ) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.

The Monarch repeatedly granted transatlantic territory to an individual or a small group, rather than to a chartered company — which would of course then be no more than an individual or a group of people using a group name in place of their own names.

IEEE P802. 22. 2 is a recommended practice for the installation and deployment of IEEE 802. 22 Systems IEEE 802. 22 WG is a working group of IEEE 802 LAN / MAN standards committee which is chartered to write the 802. 22 standard.

The working group is chartered to produce Requests for Comments on the " Experimental " track, but it is understood that their quality and security properties should match the standards track requirements.

The group met at the HealthSouth Hangar at the Birmingham International Airport and boarded a chartered Boeing 727 to Jamaica.