Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.

In the remainder of his speech Davis spoke of his admiration for Brown and warned those who took part in the meeting that they `` are liable to the charge that they are supporting traitors and upholding men whom the laws have condemned ''.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

they would be going over papers Mahzeer had saved as excuse for just such a meeting.

However, three of the managers did say that they would agree to attend the proposed meeting if all of the other managers decided to attend.

One good indication of the two men's personalities is the way they reacted to meeting their own heroes.

There is a large number of amateur astronomical societies around the world that serve as a meeting point for those interested in amateur astronomy, whether they be people who are actively interested in observing or " armchair astronomers " who may simply be interested in the topic.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Alexios used the opportunity of meeting the crusader leaders separately as they arrived and extracting from them oaths of homage and the promise to turn over conquered lands to the Byzantine Empire.

In the summer of 1214, Andrew had a meeting with Grand Duke Leszek I of Poland and they agreed that they would divide the Principality of Halych between Hungary and Poland.

On 20 August 1233, Andrew had a meeting with the legate of Pope Gregory IX in the woods of Bereg, and they made an agreement which ensured the privileges of the clergy.

While AA has pamphlets that suggest meeting formats, groups have the autonomy to hold and conduct meetings as they wish " except in matters affecting other groups or A. A. as a whole ".

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

The lines between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks hardened in April 1905 when the Bolsheviks held a Bolsheviks-only meeting in London, which they called the Third Party Congress.

A meeting at Eamont Bridge on 927 was sealed by an agreement that Constantine, Owen of Strathclyde, Hywel Dda, and Ealdred would " renounce all idolatry ": that is, they would not ally with the Viking kings.

During the meeting, decisions on matters of politics and war were probably made, but they were made in secret.

On 18 April, the Estates decided to call ' a general gathering of the German nation ', to meet at Speyer the following year, and to decide what would be done until the meeting of the general council of the Church which they demanded.

They were locked out of the meeting hall three days later when they attempted to meet, and forced to reconvene to the royal indoor tennis court.

At this meeting, they decided to stage a rising before the war ended and to accept whatever help Germany might offer.

On 19 December 2009, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri visited Syria, and stayed in Damascus for 3 days meeting with President Bashar Al-Assad & breaking the ice between the two sides.

After meeting each other for the first time at the beginning of the year, the two musicians stayed in touch and created the album via email, with Johnson recording in Seattle while Keaggy recorded in Nashville.

Stone stayed in the background until the final meeting, when she was persuaded to take the stage.

From Granada to Murcia, the town of his birth and stayed with an old friend Abū Ahmed Ibn Saydabūn, a famous disciple of Abu Madyan who at the time of their meeting was evidently going through a period of fatra or suspension.

He stayed in England for some time, meeting distinguished figures such as Mendelssohn and Moscheles.

One of the pro-Beijing members nevertheless stayed in the chamber to call for the quorum to be counted, effectively forcing the meeting to be adjourned.

Prior to the 1922 – 23 season, the NHL would hold its governors meeting at the Royal Connaught Hotel on King Street, where visiting teams stayed as well.

From them, the Professor learns they stayed on the farm in order to prevent their second son, Floyd, from meeting the same fate.

Smith entered the University of Edinburgh in October 1812, and in November took over the Unitarian congregation meeting in Skinners ' Hall, Canongate, which had stayed together without a minister since the death in 1795 of James Purves ; he raised the attendance sharply.

“ A few months before the session of the Surat Congress, Suranath traveled in the guise of a Tantric priest all over Bengal (…) preaching sedition … went Calcutta and stayed there for a month at the Sandhya office … He then formed a central committee (…), Mokshada, Shyamsundar Chakravarti, Arabinda Ghose, Tara Khepa, Annada Kaviraj and others as members .” A few days before the publication of the Yugantar, at Benares, Preonath with Hrishikesh and Suranath “ convened a public meeting as well as a meeting of the pundits wherein it was settled by quotations from the Hindu Astrology and Astronomy and announced firmly that the sinful Iron Age was now over …”

At the time of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the diplomatic meeting near Calais between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England, Francis stayed in the castle of Étaples.

He left in the fall of 1956 and stayed in Mexico until the new year, researching at the General National Archive and meeting with lawyers and other influential people.

Birmingham Respect councillors Salma Yaqoob and Mohammed Ishtiaq stayed seated with their arms folded at a council meeting to honour L / Cpl Matt Croucher ( former 40 Commando, now Royal Marines Reserve Merseyside ) the George Cross for bravery.

News of her deeds reached Ferdinand II of Aragon, who summoned her to his court at Burgos, where she stayed during the season of 1507-08, impressing king and courtiers and meeting Cardinal Cisneros.

Bristow and Pierrepont, stayed behind after a cabinet meeting with President Grant and showed him correspondence between Babcock and William Joyce in St. Louis, indicted in the Ring, cryptic telegram messages as evidence of Babcock's involvement in the Ring.

From 5 to 8 January 2000, a major meeting of al-Qaeda and JI personnel was held in Kuala Lumpur ( see 2000 Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit ); four of those who attended stayed with Sufaat at his home.

" Decatur House also became the unofficial meeting place for the Republican Stalwarts, and Ulysses S. Grant frequently stayed there.

This means that this building was used as a city council meeting hall whenever the Count of Holland stayed in the city hall building across the market square that was usually used.

The Beatles never formed ; years later, when Elvis was bodyguarding John Lennon MP, Lennon would remark that he might've stayed with music if Elvis hadn't retired ( a twist on their real-life meeting ).

On November 5 – 6, 2010, Ben Bernanke stayed on Jekyll Island to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of this original meeting.

About 20, 000 children stayed there for the meeting.

After meeting Picasso, Olga left the group, which toured South America, and stayed in Barcelona with him.

The size of the flags within the meeting building have stayed about the same since then, with only minor changes.