Other executive powers are exercised by the Connétable and Parish Assembly in each of the twelve parishes.

Still today in Jersey, the presence of established laurels or rose gardens in old houses gives a clue to the past party adherence of former owners, and the chair of the Constable of Saint Helier in the Assembly Room of the Parish Hall still sports the carved roses of a former incumbent.

Other posts in parish municipalities vary in length from one to three years and elections take place at a Parish Assembly on a majority basis.

In 1754, the General Assembly granted permission for the Parish of Newbury to build its own meeting house and recruit its own minister.

The Vernon Parish Courthouse in Leesville, LA in 2010. On March 30, 1871, the Louisiana General Assembly passed an act designating the creation of Vernon Parish, by taking territory from the parishes of Natchitoches, Rapides, and Sabine.

In 1717, the Amity Parish was accepted by the General Assembly of the Connecticut Colony and in 1832, Bethany was incorporated as a town.

Wentworth, acting without approval of the General Assembly, in 1744 issued a King's Patent to establish a new town within Brentwood called Keeneborough Parish, named after his friend, Sir Benjamin Keene ( 1697 – 1757 ), English minister to Spain.

* John Hall-the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1601 which asked King James VI of Scotland to commission a revised Authorised Version of the Bible was Parish Minister of Leith for a time

The Parish Assembly is the general assembly of the community presided over by the spiritual pastor.

The Parish Assembly elects or appoints the members of the Parish Council and the representatives or delegates to the Diocesan Assembly.

The Parish also has its own responsibilities and elections to the Municipality of St Helier take place to elect honorary officials who fulfill a variety of roles for Parishioners under the overall control of the Constable, two Procureurs du Bien Public and the Parish Assembly.

The Accounts Committee are elected to ensure that the accounts of the Parish represent a ' true and fair view ' of the state of the Parish finances in order that the Parish Assembly may rely upon the information to set the Parish Rate.

Alloa is currently served by two churches in the Church of Scotland, namely Alloa Ludgate Church ( formed by the union of Alloa North Parish Church and Alloa West Parish Church in 2009 in the building of the former West Church ) and St Mungo's Parish Church. In 1978 the Very Rev Dr Peter Brodie ( then minister at St Mungo's ) was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

They have various parish groups including the Alter Society, Baptism Teams, Grotto Committee, IT team, Misisters of the Word, Eucharistic Ministers, the Finance Committee and the Parish Assembly.

Once again returning to the Azores, he became a member of the Municipal Assembly of Ponta Delgada, as well as the President of the Civil Parish of Fajã de Baixo.

For the purposes of local government St Erth forms a civil parish and elects eleven parish councillors every four years to St Erth Parish Council.

At the local level, the Brandon and Byshottles Parish, which is co-terminous with the pre-1974 UDC, is represented by a Parish Council, to which Brandon ward elects four members.

In the Parish of Aberaman and Cwmaman is St Margaret's Church, with an old, but beautiful, pipe organ with two manuals and a pedal board.

The fleet also includes 8 Lupo class frigates ( two built in Peru ), 6 PR-72P class corvettes, 4 Terrebonne Parish class landing ships, 2 Type 209 / 1100 and 4 Type 209 / 1200 class German-built diesel submarines ( the biggest submarine force in South America ), as well as patrol vessels, tankers and cargo ships.

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana, Teton County, Wyoming and Teton County, Idaho, Big Horn County, Wyoming and Big Horn County, Montana, Park County, Wyoming and Park County, Montana, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Kent County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware, and Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana respectively.

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

In 1720, there were two parishes in Henrico County, St. James and Henrico Parish.

The Falls Church, from which the City takes its name, was first called " William Gunnell's Church ," built of wood in 1733 to serve Truro Parish, which had been formed two years earlier from a larger parish centered in Quantico.

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Union Parish, Louisiana and Union County, Arkansas, Kent County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida.

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Kent County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

From 1933 to 1980, the office of Webster Parish sheriff, who also holds the title of chief parish tax collector, was filled by only three persons, all Democrats, from two political families.

There are two articles about the history of Washington Parish:

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Kent County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

In 1864, Captain Joseph C. Lea of the Missouri guerrillas, with two hundred men, moved into Tensas Parish and came upon a fortification held by four hundred Federal soldiers under the command of Colonel Alfred W. Eller.

The parish is split into two noncontiguous parts because of a surveying error dating to 1868, when Iberia Parish was created by the Louisiana Legislature.

Iberia Parish divides St. Martin Parish into two parts.

The two main highways of the southwest traversed the Neutral Strip and ran about four miles ( 6 km ) apart in the vicinity of the Town of Many, The San Antonio Trace, El Camino Real, extended from Natchitoches westward directly across Sabine Parish into the state of Texas.

The Texas-Pacific was completed in 1882 between Shreveport and New Orleans realizing how important a railroad was to a town, Pleasant Hill moved itself out of DeSoto Parish to the railroad which was two miles ( 3 km ) away in Sabine Parish.

New Roads ( historically ) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The constable presides over the Roads Committee, the Conseil Paroissial ( except St. Helier ) and Parish Assemblies.

Boggs was born in Brunswick Plantation, near New Roads in Pointe Coupee Parish.

deLesseps Morrison was born in New Roads, the seat of Pointe Coupee Parish.

* Wickliffe ( New Roads, Louisiana ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

Centeniers, Vingteniers and Constable's Officers, collectively the Honorary Police are elected by a Parish assembly along with members of the Roads Committee and Roads Inspectors and must take an oath of office before the Royal Court.

Roads Inspectors are elected to serve a vingtaine or cueillette at an Assembly of the electors of the Parish.

Roads Inspectors report to and must enforce the decisions of the Roads Committee of the Parish.

The Connétable presides over the Roads Committee which also includes the Rector and three Principals of the Parish Principals for St Helier elected for a term of three years by the Parish Assembly.

Roads Inspectors are responsible for the repair of by-roads of the Parish and have to ensure the instructions of the Roads Committee are carried out.

In the Parish of St Helier, the Roads Inspectors also undertake additional non-statutory responsibilities with regard to the policing of infractions of the Road Traffic Act ( Jersey ) and other areas of the law within the parochial remit such as dog licensing and fly posting.

Schooling offered by the Sisters of St. Joseph commenced in Woy Woy in 1922 at the original St John the Baptist Church ( Parish hall since 2007 ) located on the corner of Blackwall and Victoria Roads, Woy Woy. There are also two public primary schools, Woy Woy South and Woy Woy, with the senior campus of Brisbane Water Secondary College also located within Woy Woy.