In 1868, Matsukata was appointed governor of Hita Prefecture ( part of present day Ōita Prefecture ) by his friend Okubo who was the powerful minister of the interior for the new Meiji government.

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

Many in America were outraged by Calley's sentence ; Georgia's governor Jimmy Carter instituted " American Fighting Man's Day " and asked Georgians to drive for a week with their lights on.

Another result of the financial crisis has been King's rejection of the Bank's devout focus on price stability, or inflation targeting, a policy that was instituted after Black Wednesday in 1992 and that was continued by King after becoming governor in 2003.

The court ruled that the declaration of the village as a closed area had been improperly instituted, and in consequence " the military governor had no authority to evict the petitioners the village and he has no authority to prevent them from entering or leaving it or from residing there.

General Saussier, governor of Paris, instituted a regular inquiry ( 4 December ).

On November 12, 1980, Thompson, by his executive order, instituted a hiring freeze for all state agencies, boards, bureaus, and commissions under his control as governor.

Wood instituted many reforms during his tenure as governor of Moro Province:

As governor he instituted numerous economy measures and estimated he saved taxpayers $ 20 million.

* On the Greek island of Crete, after the President of the Executive Commission of the Cretan Assembly, Ioannis Sfakianakis ( b. 1848-d. 1924 ), had exercised executive power 20 March-21 December 1898 after evicting the last Ottoman Wāli ( Ottoman governor ), a Supreme Plenipotentiary Commissioner of the ( Christian protecting ) Powers headed the official administration of the 20 March 1898 instituted Cretan State ( formally under Ottoman suzerainty until union with Greece was unilaterally declared on 6 October 1908 ):

During 1910, Lord Milner, governor of the Union government which was part of the British Commonwealth, instituted Land Alienation Acts which resulted in more rural blacks forced to leave for the mining hub in search of employment.

In 1960 he was elected governor and set about attempting to undo the clean government and civil rights reforms that had been instituted by his predecessor, Cecil H. Underwood, the only Republican to hold the governor's office between 1932 and 1968.

As governor Guzmán also instituted a system of slave trade in Pánuco.

Other reforms instituted by Bamberger included the creation of a public health department and a public utilities commission to regulate the price of gas and electricity ; a modified line-item veto to assist the governor in curbing pork barrel politics ; popular election of judges on a nonpartisan basis ; a longer school year ; and a water rights commission to supervise water usage in residential development of hitherto rural areas, an especially crucial issue in any Western state.

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

Because each governor held equal imperium to the equivalent magistrate, they were escorted by the same number of lictors ( 12 ) and could only be vetoed by a reigning Consul or Praetor.

New York offered the greatest exception, having a strong, unitary governor with veto and appointment power elected to a three-year term, and eligible for reelection to an indefinite number of terms thereafter.

Not outlined in any constitutional document, the office exists only as per long-established convention originating in Canada's former colonial power, the United Kingdom, which stipulates that the monarch's representative, the governor general, must select as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the elected House of Commons ; this individual is typically the leader of the political party that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber.

As a reward for helping free Stephen from the oppression of Hugh of Arles, Stephen granted Cante di Gabrielli the position of papal governor of Gubbio, and control over a number of key fortresses.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

St. Croix had been settled at an uncertain point over a century before by settlers from a number of different European nations, but in 1645 violence had flared up between them, and the English governor was murdered.

The top management of the PBC is composed of the governor and a certain number of deputy governors.

Lincoln was joined by a number of rebel English Lords at Mechelen, in particular Richard III's loyal supporter, Lord Lovell, Sir Richard Harleston, the former governor of Jersey and Thomas David, a captain of the English garrison at Calais.

Petitions signed by California state voters equal in number to 12 % of the last vote for the office of governor ( with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 % of the last vote for governor in the county ) can launch a gubernatorial recall election.

* Contemporary charters in Latin used a number of additional styles for the Danish king Cnut ( Canute the Great, with Norway as his third realm ; 23 April 1016-12 November 1035 in Britain ) having rex Anglorum in the core plus various other titles, including rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector i. e. ' king of the Angli and of all Britain governor and rector ' ( the last two in the generic sense ' ruler ')

Provincial parties grew in popularity and number after the return of democracy in 1983, and took several of the provincial governor positions.

In 1696, governor Fletcher authorized purchases of Indian land near the New York border by a number of citizens of Ulster County ; their descendants became the first European settlers of Pike County.

For a number of years, Terry was the home of Mississippi governor Albert G. Brown.

One of the eleven Quaker proprietors was William Penn, and after expanding to include a larger number of proprietors, the group elected Barclay to be the governor.

Conscripts could one day become Janissary colonels ; statesmen who might one day return to their motherland as governor ; or even Grand Vizier or Beylerbey ( governor general ), with a seat in the divan, an imperial council common in a number of Islamic states.

That southern Italy was reconquered and ruled by a Byzantine governor from about 970 to 1071 explains the relatively large number of small and rustic Middle Byzantine-style churches found there, including the Cattolica in Stilo and S. Marco in Rossano.

* Thomas John Cochrane ( Sir )( 1789-1872 ) Cemetery plot number 21777, 1st governor of Newfoundland 1825-1834, Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1839-1841, Admiral of the fleet 1865-1872.

On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, shortly after " Carolyn " became another number one country hit for Haggard, then-California governor Ronald Reagan granted Haggard a full pardon for his past crimes.

The earliest use of the Maypole in America occurred in 1628, where William Bradford, governor of New Plymouth, wrote of an incident where a number of servants, together with the aid of an agent, broke free from their indentured service to create their own colony, setting up a maypole in the center of the settlement, and behaving in such a way as to receive the scorn and disapproval of the nearby colonies, as well as an official officer of the king, bearing patent for the state of Massachusetts.

Diocletian's reforms shifted the governors ' main function to that of the presiding official in the lower courts: whereas in the early Empire military and judicial functions were the function of governor, and procurators had supervised taxation ; under the new system vicarii and governors were responsible for justice and taxation, and a new class of duces (" dukes "), acting independently of the civil service, had military command.

As governor, Agnew worked with the Democratic legislature to pass tax and judicial reforms, as well as tough anti-pollution laws.

He was the foremost urban leader of the efficiency-oriented Progressive Movement and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s.

As governor, La Follette championed numerous progressive reforms, including the first workers ' compensation system, railroad rate reform, direct legislation, municipal home rule, open government, the minimum wage, non-partisan elections, the open primary system, direct election of U. S. Senators, women's suffrage, and progressive taxation.

The British governor, Sir John Hall, regarded the riots as the work of communist-inspired agitators and rejected the suggested reforms.

Sanford was a strong proponent of public education and introduced a number of reforms and new programs in North Carolina's schools and institutions of higher education as the state's governor, increasing funding for education and establishing the North Carolina Fund.

As military commander, Lieutenant Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck's first obligation was to his army, over the objections of Governor Heinrich Schnee: the governor regarded war as the worst possible calamity that could befall German East Africa ; it would " undo everything his social and economic reforms had accomplished.

Pershing enacted the following reforms during his tenure as governor:

The last great governor of Cauca, don Miguel de Arroyo Hurtado, made more renovations and reforms that gave it the most current look.

As governor 1963-67, Scranton signed into law sweeping reforms in the state's education system, including creation of the state community college system, the state board of education, and the state Higher Education Assistance Agency.

Like in many parts of Spanish America at the time, angered by the reforms the criollos saw as a threat to their way of life, and taking advantage of the Peninsular War, the local population, led by Antonio Vicente Seonane, revolted on September 24, 1810, overthrowing the governor delegate.

During his gubernatorial term, Treen developed a reputation for indecision and micromanagement of details which frustrated supporters and angered adversaries. His failure to push for strong conservative policies and governmental reforms disappointed many Republican allies, as did his refusal to oust from his administration allies of former governor and his past and future rival, Democrat Edwin Edwards.

As governor Dunne championed numerous progressive reforms, including Women's Suffrage, prison reforms, major infrastructural improvements, the creation of the Public Utility Commission, the Efficiency and Economy Commission, the Legislative Reference Bureau, and he also expanded the state's responsibility for overseeing workman's compensation benefits and teachers ' pensions.

The Wisconsin Idea, in United States History, also refers to a series of political reforms of the late 19th century and early 20th century whose strongest advocate was Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Wisconsin's governor ( 1901 – 1906 ) and senator ( 1906 – 1925 ).

He remained in Sicily as governor ( the exact Italian title was Luogotenente generale dei reali domini al di là del Faro, meaning Lieutenant-general of the royal domains beyond the Lighthouse ) until 1855, when he retired into private life, as he could not carry out the reforms he desired owing to the hostility of Giovanni Cassisi, the minister for Sicily.

In that time many buildings designed by the most outstanding architects were constructed ; moreover, the governor carried out reforms in his property which enabled the economical development in this area.

There were further reforms in education during his term as governor, and he was elected to a second two-year term in 1904.

The arrival of the liberal governor De la Torre was opposed by the ruling minority of friars, regular priests who belonged to an order ( Dominicans, Augustinians, Recollects and Franciscans ) and their allies in civil government, but supported by the secular priests, most of whom were mestizos and indios assigned to parishes and far-flung communities, who believed that the reforms and the equality they wanted with peninsular Spaniards coming.

As governor, Blackburn won passage of several reforms in the areas of state finance and internal improvements, but his signature accomplishments were in the area of penal reform.

In response to recommendations from the governor, the General Assembly enacted cost-saving reforms in the judicial system, including the abolition of criminal, chancery, and common pleas courts, dividing the state instead into 18 circuit court districts.

As governor, Aecio Neves introduced the " Management Shock ": a set of sweeping reforms designed to bring the state budget under control by reducing government expenditure and promoting investment.