But not until 1557 did the Portuguese establish a permanent settlement in Macau, at an annual rent of 500 taels ( 20 kilograms / 44 pounds ) of silver.

In 1582 a land lease was signed, and annual rent was paid to Xiangshan County.

In county constituencies in addition to forty-shilling freeholders, franchise rights were extended to owners of land in copyhold worth £ 10 (£ 7, 948. 71 in 2007 ) and holders of long-term leases ( more than sixty years ) on land worth £ 10 and holders of medium-term leases ( between twenty and sixty years ) on land worth £ 50 and to tenants-at-will paying an annual rent of £ 50.

These losses were somewhat offset by the extension of the vote to tenants-at-will paying an annual rent of £ 50.

Under this, the Stationers paid an annual rent for the university not to exercise its full printing rights – money Oxford used to purchase new printing equipment for smaller purposes.

The right to vote in Parliamentary elections for county constituencies was uniform throughout the country, granting a vote to all those who owned the freehold of land to an annual rent of 40 shillings (‘ Forty-shilling Freeholders ’).

His master usually found him a slave girl for a wife ( the children were then born slaves ), often set him up in a house ( with farm or business ) and simply took an annual rent of him.

The land to the east eventually became the present day garden, while the western end was leased by Warden Rawlins in 1515 for the foundation of Corpus Christi ( at an annual rent of just over £ 4 ).

William Penn originally granted land for the inn subject to an annual rent payment of one red rose.

Chambers gave land to the congregation in 1768, requiring only a single rose as annual rent.

Dr. Nicholas More, an English friend and business associate of William Penn, was granted 9, 815 acres of land at an annual rent of a silver shilling for every 100 acres.

The monarch granted Carstensen use of roughly 15 acres ( 61, 000 m² ) of the fortified glacis outside Vesterport ( the West Gate ) for an annual rent.

In 1851 the Lancaster Canal leased the tolls on the southern end to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in return for an annual rent, and this agreement was made permanent in 1864.

As of 2011, the fee for a tour into the Fuggerei is 4. 00 euro-over four times the annual rent.

An apocryphal story associated with Slaithwaite is that in the 19th century, when tenants came to the village to pay their annual rent, The 5th Earl of Dartmouth would provide ' rent dinners ' and that the shoulder of mutton was the most favoured with the tables of hot roast beef, mutton and tongue ( cooked together in the set pot ) being available there at that time.

The financial situation of the society improved in 1942 when the lease for the hall was transferred to the City Council, in return for an immediate payment of cash and an annual rent.

Guiscard, now " by the Grace of God and St Peter duke of Apulia and Calabria and, if either aid me, future lord of Sicily ", agreed to hold his titles and lands by annual rent of the Holy See and to maintain its cause.

The buildings are let to the Covent Garden Area Trust, who pay an annual peppercorn rent of one red apple and a posy of flowers for each head lease, and the Trust protects the property from being redeveloped.

Led by Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, the campaign culminated in 1918, when the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an act ( the Representation of the People Act 1918 ) granting the vote to women over the age of 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £ 5, and graduates of British universities.

In the year 1279, Laurence of Hardwick was also paying 3 marks ( equivalent to 40 shillings ) in annual rent to the Bishop for a mill in the then Hardwick hamlet.

As the original 25-year lease was nearing its end, Vietnam demanded $ 200 million in annual rent for the continued operation of the base.

Its land grant specified an annual rent of sixty bushels of wheat.

The Prior at Winchester began to lease Fleet Ponds and the pastures there to a tenant at Fleet Farm, at an annual rent of 23 shillings and 4 pence plus “ a hundred of the fishes, pike, tenches, perches, bream and roaches, to he carried and delivered ( to Winchester ) in a good and fresh state ”.

Four of the metro's major public school systems, representing 54 % of area enrollment, are included in Expansion Management magazine's latest annual education quality ratings of nearly 2, 800 school districts nationwide.

Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

Much of this area receives only traces of rain during the entire year ; at Faya Largeau, for example, annual rainfall averages less than.

Temperatures are fairly uniform throughout the Tonle Sap Basin area, with only small variations from the average annual mean of around.

The annual flooding, combined with poor drainage immediately around the lake, transforms the surrounding area into marshlands unusable for agricultural purposes during the dry season.

The database research area has several notable dedicated academic journals ( e. g., ACM Transactions on Database Systems-TODS, Data and Knowledge Engineering-DKE, and more ) and annual conferences ( e. g., ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, and more ), as well as an active and quite heterogeneous ( subject-wise ) research community all over the world.

Data available from stations in the foothills and steppes south and southwest of the mountains suggest mean annual rainfall between for that area.

Rainfall in this area is fairly abundant, annual precipitation ranging between.

The average annual rainfall in the coastal area is fewer than, but in some mountainous areas annual rainfall often reaches.

The area is situated in the Silesian Greater Poland agro-climatic region where the average annual temperature is about 8. 2 ° C, and in the north drops to around 7. 6 ° C.

In 2006, the Memphis metropolitan area ranked number one in violent crimes for major cities around the U. S according to the FBI's annual crime rankings, whereas it had ranked second in 2005.

However, a large proportion of catches is not reported at species level ; in the FAO fishery statistics, the category " Croakers, drums, not elsewhere included ", is the largest one within Sciaenidae, with annual landings of 431, 000 – 780, 000 tonnes in 2000 – 2009, most of which were reported from the Western Indian Ocean ( FAO fishing area 51 ) and Northwest Pacific ( FAO fishing area 61 ).

Each episcopal area contains one or more annual conferences, which is how the churches and clergy under the bishop's supervision are organized.

Thus, the use of the term " diocese " referring to geography is the most equivalent in the United Methodist Church, whereas each annual conference is part of one episcopal area ( though that area may contain more than one conference ).

The United States and United Kingdom have a far higher urbanisation level than China, India, Swaziland or Niger, but a far slower annual urbanisation rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area.

In return for their aid, Shi Jingtang promised annual tribute and 16 prefectures in the Youyun area ( modern northern Hebei province and Beijing ) to the Khitans.

Seven fish ponds were dug to the north-west of the house, where the large, flat area used for events such as the annual Chatsworth Horse Trials and Angling and Country Fairs is now.

Calendula ( Ca-lén-du-la ), marigold, is a genus of about 12 – 20 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to an area from Macaronesia east through the Mediterranean to Iran.

The Sea of Azov used to be the most productive fishing area in the Soviet Union: typical annual fish catches of 300, 000 tonnes converted to 80 kg per hectare of surface.

The Guerneville area, for example, typically receives about 50 inches of rain a year, with annual rain occasionally going as high as.

In February 2006, CKX Chairman Bob Sillerman announced plans to turn Graceland into an international tourist destination on a par with the Disney or Universal theme parks, sprucing up the area mansion and doubling or possibly tripling the 600, 000 annual visitors to around 2 million a year.