* Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class.

But when Des Grieux reveals their unmarried state to the Governor and asks to be wed with Manon, the Governor's nephew sets his sights on winning Manon's hand.

* Mr. Lafontaine too tardily asks the Governor to summon Parliament.

* George Washington asks Governor Chittendeu whether Vermont chooses to be a Province or in the Union.

Jimmy presents the case to Detective Biggio and asks him to help bring the true murderer of Governor Van Allan to justice.

While in his last press conference as the Governor of California Arnold a reporter asks Arnold if he is going to return to acting.

In " Savages ", when the death penalty has just been restored in New York State following the election of Governor George Pataki, Kincaid asks McCoy about the probability of executing an innocent individual.

February 27, 1856 Governor of Cebu asks the Captain and Governor-General to create said parish.

During 1976, Governor of California Jerry Brown established the California Conservation Corps.

During the U. S. intervention in Afghanistan, he fought against the Taliban within the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( Northern Alliance ) and thus regained his position as Governor of Herat.

During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.

During the war, the capital was moved to Richmond at the urging of Governor Thomas Jefferson, who feared that Williamsburg's location would make it vulnerable to British attack.

During the next five years the position of the Governor General of a Dominion was clarified ; he ceased to be a representative of the British government and became a representative of The Crown.

During the period of around 85 years the resident Governor of Barbados also served as the Colonial head of the Windward Islands.

During the Imperial age it became one of the most important and flourishing cities of southern Italy when it was the seat of the " Corrector ", the Governor of " Regio II Lucania et Bruttii " ( province of Lucany and Brutium ).

During his 12 years as Governor, over 90 people were electrocuted under New York authority.

During the civil and military unrest which followed, George Monck, the Governor of Scotland, was concerned that the nation would descend into anarchy.

During her tenure from 1999 to 2005, Adrienne Clarkson made an effort to obtain copies of every Governor General's Literary Awards winning book from fairs and second hand shops for the governor general's study.

During the Imperial era, Omsk was the seat of the Governor General of Western Siberia, and later of the Governor General of the Steppes.

During the 1930s, an attempt by Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo to move The University of Mississippi to Jackson, was prevented by then Chancellor Alfred Hume by giving Mississippi legislators a grand tour of Ole Miss and the surrounding city of Oxford.

During this period Kitchener struggled against Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor of the Cape Colony, and the British government.

During California's Gubernatorial recall campaign, Sanchez was one of the first Democrats to break from Governor Gray Davis and state that a Democrat should run to succeed Davis in case the recall measure passed.

During the Great Depression, the North Carolina state government, under Governor O. Max Gardner, administratively combined the University of North Carolina, the Woman's College ( at Greensboro ), and NC State.

During and after his tenure, Brumbaugh remained intimately connected to the college, and reacquired the college's presidency in 1924, after having served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1915-1919.

During her time as vicereine, Sauvé established in commemoration of her state visit to Brazil the Governor General Jeanne Sauvé Fellowship, awarded each year to a Brazilian graduate student in Canadian studies.

During his time as Governor of California, Ronald Reagan made a horse packing trip into the area.

During his trip, Harding visited the Governor's Mansion while Governor Scott Bone, who was appointed by Harding, was in office.

During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open.

During the battle, the mixed-blood Kaw interpreter, Joe Jim, galloped 60 miles to Topeka to request assistance from the Governor.

During this time, the brothers of Governor Wright of Georgia, Charles and German Wright-who were English Loyalists-built a fort on their land.

During the Civil War, David Pierson, a young attorney, was elected to represent the parish at the Secession Convention called in January 1861 in Baton Rouge by Governor Thomas Overton Moore.

During his time as Governor, Davis made education his top priority and California spent eight billion dollars more than was required under Proposition 98 during his first term.

Upon payment of fifty shillings for each, the warrantee could receive a permanent grant for Royal Governor Arthur Dobbs.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland that if any bank has established or shall, without authority from the State first had and obtained establish any branch, office of discount and deposit, or office of pay and receipt in any part of this State, it shall not be lawful for the said branch, office of discount and deposit, or office of pay and receipt to issue notes, in any manner, of any other denomination than five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred, five hundred and one thousand dollars, and no note shall be issued except upon stamped paper of the following denominations ; that is to say, every five dollar note shall be upon a stamp of ten cents ; every ten dollar note, upon a stamp of twenty cents ; every twenty dollar note, upon a stamp of thirty cents ; every fifty dollar note, upon a stamp of fifty cents ; every one hundred dollar note, upon a stamp of one dollar ; every five hundred dollar note, upon a stamp of ten dollars ; and every thousand dollar note, upon a stamp of twenty dollars ; which paper shall be furnished by the Treasurer of the Western Shore, under the direction of the Governor and Council, to be paid for upon delivery ; provided always that any institution of the above description may relieve itself from the operation of the provisions aforesaid by paying annually, in advance, to the Treasurer of the Western Shore, for the use of State, the sum of $ 15, 000.

There are fifty three administrative districts, each headed by a Governor, and the districts are further divided into service areas called divisions, comprising 12 to 20 clubs and headed by a Lieutenant Governor.

Governor Henry commissioned Clark as a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia and authorized him to raise seven militia companies, each to contain fifty men.

Former Governor Ellis Arnall polled more than fifty thousad votes as a write-in cadidate, a factor which led to the impasse.

SIR, -- I have the honor to report, that at the request of Commodore R. F. Stockton ( who in September last assumed the titled of Governor of California ), I consented to take command of an expedition to this place – capital of the country – and that on the 29th of December, I left San Diego with about five hundred men, consisting of sixty dismounted dragoons, under Captain Turner ; fifty California volunteers, and the remainder of marines and sailors, with a battery of artillery.

The act effectively rolled back over fifty years of restrictions the legislation had placed on the governor in appointing officials, in having control over policy, giving him a measure of control over the more independent branches of the administration, and also granting new and expanded powers to the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana.

On November 8, 1648, Governor Charles Houël organized the settlement of the first French colonists: they were about fifty men near the site of Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

Mu Bai and Shu Lien trace the theft to Governor Yu's compound and learn that Jade Fox has been posing as Jen's governess for many years.

On the advice of her New South Wales Premier only, the Queen appoints the Governor to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving At Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

However, because Government House has not been a residence for fifteen years, O ' Farrell also announced that the Governor will initially move into a smaller adjacent building, called the chalet, while refurbishments of the main wing occur, with a proposed move into the main house " before Christmas ".

Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.

In 1992, two years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mujahideen captured Herat, and Ismail Khan became Governor.

British Governor Raffles, who the later founded the city of Singapore, ruled the colony the following 10 years of the British interregnum ( 1806 – 1816 ).

On June 26, 2011, Fortuño announced that he aspires to become the first Governor to win reelection in the past 16 years.

No six years "), drowning out the voice of the Governor.

Patrick was sentenced to death, spending four years on death row at Sing Sing Prison before having his sentence commuted by Governor Frank Higgins in 1906.

He received a full pardon from Governor John A. Dix six years later.

Fifteen years after the Bounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps, resulting in the so-called Rum Rebellion.

* May 10 – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term ( multiple times over 43 years ) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize ; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil ( for the next 10 years ) and returns to France.

However, the political instability that followed the first 50 years of the new country allowed two American invasions and an internal secession war, during which the Governor of the State annexed the Coahuila and Tamaulipas states, designating Monterrey as the capital of the enlarged state.

Almost 100 years after Governor Parke had expressed his views, one of his successors would speak in similar terms.

Hollings ' successor as Governor, Donald S. Russell, resigned in order to accept appointment to the Senate seat, and Hollings defeated Russell in the Democratic primary for the remaining two years of the term.

After three years at hard labor, Kennard was paroled by Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

Another non-federal state, Newfoundland, was a Dominion for 16 years with the King's representative retaining the title of Governor throughout this time.