The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.

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.

In United States appellate procedure, an appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law.

The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision.

The appellee is required to respond to the petition, oral arguments, and legal briefs of the appellant.

The second is the collateral appeal or post-conviction petition, in which the petitioner-appellant files the appeal in a court of first instance — usually the court that tried the case.

If the petition is granted the appellant could be released from incarceration, the sentence could be modified, or a new trial could be ordered.

There is a movement to petition the postmaster general to issue a U. S. postage stamp for him in 2011, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter.

The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

The Crown may choose to grant the petition, but if there is any doubt whatsoever as to the pedigree of the petitioner, the claim is normally referred to the Committee for Privileges.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

This is because once a bankruptcy petition is filed, it is for the creditors, not the debtor to decide whether a particular asset has value.

A person or debtor can declare himself or herself bankrupt by lodging a debtor's petition with the Official Receiver, which is the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia ( ITSA ).

To declare bankruptcy or for a creditors petition to be lodged, a minimum debt of $ 5, 000 is required.

In the case of a debtor's petition, the Statement of Affairs is filed with the petition and the three year period commences immediately.

However, in the case of a creditor's petition, the Statement of Affairs will rarely be filed on the same day the court order is made.

36 units is the minimum full-time load, 48 units is considered a heavy load, and registrations above 54 units require an overload petition.

The original petition requested that it be named Dromore after one of the town's oldest sections, but Massachusetts chose instead to honor one of its royal governors, Sir William Phips — actually a native of Woolwich.

The petition document is the oldest extant document in which the academy is mentioned by name, as follows ; " Your petitioners beg leave further to represent that the real estate belonging to their Academy consists of a lot of land fronting the public square in the said village of Geneva, on which they have erected a building twenty-five feet by thirty-eight feet, and one and a half stories high, and that they have for upwards of two years past employed a gentleman of abilities, regularly graduated at Princeton College, who, together with an assistant, has the superintendence of upwards of sixty students.

The Cathedral of St John the Baptist in St John's, Newfoundland, is the oldest Anglican parish in Canada, founded in 1699 in response to a petition drafted by the Anglican townsfolk of St John's and sent to the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Henry Compton.

The Beta of New York narrowly missed being the eighth oldest chapter after a partially unsuccessful petition to start a chapter in 1836 by Robert Bridges Patton, Samuel F. B.

** Betty White is now the oldest celebrity to ever host SNL at age 88½, beating out the 80-year-old Miskel Spillman ( the winner of SNLs " Anyone Can Host " contest back in 1977 ), the second cast member from The Golden Girls to host SNL ( after Bea Arthur, who hosted prior to starring in The Golden Girls in a season five episode in 1979 ), and is the first celebrity to be chosen to host SNL based on an online petition.

The parish of St. John the Baptist in the city of St. John's, Newfoundland ( part of the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador ) is the oldest in Canada, founded in 1699 in response to a petition drafted by the Anglican townsfolk of St. John's and sent to the Bishop of London, Henry Compton.

Pauline Léon, on 6 March 1792, submitted a petition signed by 319 women to the National Assembly requesting permission to form a garde national in order to defend Paris in case of military invasion.

On 12 December, the Stationers submitted yet another petition asking for legislation on the issue, and the House of Commons gave three MPs – Spencer Compton, Craven Peyton and Edward Wortley – permission to form a drafting committee.

In 1818 New Albany was a large enough city to become a county seat and form a new county, so local leaders sent Nathaniel Scribner and John K. Graham to the capital of Corydon to petition the General Assembly accordingly.

On 10 April 1848, a new Chartist Convention organised a mass meeting on Kennington Common, which would form a procession to present another petition to Parliament.

Formerly a crossroads of sorts, travelers would stop to rest at the heart of what is now Marlborough center during colonial times, and eventually a petition was filed to the Colonial Government to form an Ecclesiastical Society in 1747.

This caused the villagers to form a committee, which went to Boston to petition for incorporation as its own town.

The residents petition the State to form a township with no name selected.

After the Civil War, the residents decided to file a petition to form a separate municipality because they were upset at the level of services they received from Sewickley Township.

Mill Creek Township was formed from part of Muncy Township on February 25, 1879 by the order of a judge who certified the results of an election regarding a petition to form the new township by the residents of what was the northern portion of Muncy Township.

The state granted a petition by local residents to form a new county, Brooks, with Falfurrias as its county seat in 1911.

When Charles endeavoured to raise a guard for his own person at York, intending it, as the event afterwards proved, to form the nucleus of an army, Lord Fairfax was required by Parliament to present a petition to his sovereign, entreating Charles to hearken to the voice of his Parliament, and to discontinue the raising of troops.

" It gives a link to a petition page with a form that would e-mail a message to Alex Ness, so that users would not have to open any other third party clients.

Still opposed to the governor's authority, this time he bore a petition in support of trial by jury and some form of representative government, and again carried samples of his wine, for which he won another medal in 1828.

Later, Madras High Court dismissed the petition on the ground that there already existed an alternate and efficacious remedy, in the form of rectification plea before the registrar of GIs or the Intellectual Property Appellate Board ( IPAB ).

On March 20, 1845, a petition to form a new township from portions of Ross and Indiana townships was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions.

Kneeling had formed one of the matters over which clergy of the diocese of Lincoln had petitioned the king in 1604 for change in the Book of Common Prayer in 1604 ; an abridged form of the petition was circulating in 1617 as a book printed covertly in Leiden by William Jones.

Petitions were a common form of protest and request to the British House of Commons in the 18th and 19th centuries, the largest being the Great / People's Charter, or petition of the Chartists.

Internet petition is a new form of a petition becoming commonplace in the 21st century.

After the passing of the Public Health Act ( 1848 ), Penzance was one of the first towns to petition to form a local board of health, doing so in September that year.

Parliamentary opposition had to be led from outside the county in the form of Terry Davis, MP for Bromsgrove who noted that the petition had been signed by 60, 000 people.

In the 20th century, ballot access laws imposing signature requirements far more restrictive than Wigmore had envisioned were enacted by many state legislatures ; in many cases, the two major parties wrote the laws in such a way that the burdens created by these new ballot access requirements ( usually in the form of difficult signature-gathering nominating petition drives ) fell on alternative candidates, but not on major party candidates.

** Kurdistan activists bring petition to the authorities in Baghdad asking for a referendum on whether Kurds will stay within a united Iraq or to form an independent Kurdistan.

In 1779, John C. Cuyler, Senior Elder of the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church, presented a petition, signed by nearly 1, 000 citizens of northern and eastern New York, to the New York Assembly asking permission to form a corporation to found an academy or college in Schenectady, to be called Clinton College.