He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.

Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

Hradčany was an independent borough until 1784, when the four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were proclaimed a single city.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

As a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Being the capital of the German state of Saxony, Dresden had not only garrisons but a whole military borough, the Albertstadt.

The largest borough, Westminster, had approximately 12, 000 voters, while the smallest, usually known as " rotten boroughs " had, in most cases, fewer than a hundred each.

The most famous rotten borough was Old Sarum, which had 13 burgage plots that could be used to " manufacture " electors if necessary — usually around half a dozen was thought sufficient.

In total therefore the Act disfranchised 143 borough seats in England ( one of the boroughs to be completely abolished, Higham Ferrers, had only a single representative ).

Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.

In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional because Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 " one man, one vote " decision.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that once employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008.

Hereford had formed a historic borough and was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

The borough originally had several civil parishes or parts of parishes within it but these were all merged into a single civil parish of Carlisle in 1904.

Boston ( a borough by 1279 ), on the river Witham, had over many years become an important port for Lincoln.

The wider borough, including a rural area, had a population of 153, 000.

The borough council had made several applications for city status since 1889, and took the opportunity of the visit to renew its request.

When the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent applied for city status in 1925, it was initially refused as it had only 294, 000 inhabitants.

As the borough was larger than Portsmouth, and had recently absorbed Devonport and East Stonehouse, the King agreed to the request.

In December 1963 it was announced that a charter was to be granted incorporating the new authority as " Westminster ", and that the Queen had accepted the advice of the Home Secretary to raise the London borough to the title and dignity of city.

In 1991, Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County ( coterminous with the borough of Manhattan ), disclosed that his office had found evidence that BCCI secretly owned First American.

As of the 2000 United States Census there were 6, 649 people, 2, 143 households, and 1, 722 families residing in the borough.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 1, 649.

The per capita income for the borough was $ 32, 649 (+/- $ 1, 365 ).

The per capita income for the borough was $ 13, 649.

As of the census of 2000, there were 2, 498 people, 1, 170 households, and 649 families residing in the borough.

The median income for a household in the borough was $ 40, 013, and the median income for a family was $ 50, 649.

As of the census of 2000, there were 649 people, 233 households, and 188 families residing in the borough.

As of the census of 2000, there were 5, 624 people, 2, 649 households, and 1, 380 families residing in the borough.

The median income for a household in the borough was $ 45, 649, and the median income for a family was $ 46, 313.

It is the second largest London borough by population with 331, 500 inhabitants and covers an area of.

The borough suffered tragedy in 1888 when 37 inhabitants were killed in a train wreck known as the Mud Run Disaster.

The inhabitants of Central City borough and the surrounding area are served by nine churches, sixteen stores, one hotel, five garages and service stations, three barber shops, a printing house, a photo studio, two funeral homes, a greenhouse, two veterans ' organizations-American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and one financial institution — Central City Bank, a branch of AmeriServ Financial Bank of Johnstown.

( Nowadays, " Salzgitter-Watenstedt " is the name of a small borough with a few hundred inhabitants.

The borough is currently one of the most densely populated in the Federal District with 13, 537 inhabitants per km2, 1. 3 times that of the district in general.

The borough had a 2010 census population of 360, 265 inhabitants and lies at an elevation of 2, 254 m. above sea level.

In the 19th century, " Ahvaz was no more than a small borough inhabited mainly by Sha ' ab Arabs and a few Sabeans ( 1, 500 to 2, 000 inhabitants according to Ainsworth in 1835 ; 700 according to Curzon in 1890 ).

A borough seal dated 1469 is extant, but the corporation is not mentioned in the grant made by Edward VI of the church to twelve principal inhabitants.

The current borough has some 73, 000 inhabitants.

He became popular among the inhabitants of borough of Śródmieście ( city centre ) for his action of planting trees and flowers along the main streets.

The population of Skarpnäck borough is 40, 707 as of December 31, 2007 on an area of, which gives a density of 2, 599 inhabitants per square kilometer ( 6, 728 inh per sq mi ).

Other major populated places are the small borough of Hulja ( 600 inhabitants ) and the villages of Kihlevere ( 200 inhabitants ), Vohnja ( 200 inhabitants ) and Viitna ( 100 inhabitants ).

The reformed franchise introduced in 1832 gave the borough 1, 572 inhabitants qualified to vote.

The pre-1832 franchise of the borough was held by inhabitants paying scot and lot ( a local tax ).

Massy underwent rapid development within a short period of time, transforming from a large borough of 6000 inhabitants in 1950 to a town exceeding 37000 inhabitants in 1968.

The borough was organised on a burgage franchise where the inhabitants of designated houses had the right to vote.

The duty fell primarily on the grand jurors of each county borough or franchise ( until the abolition of grand juries in 1933 ), and is performed by indictment or presentment, but it also falls in theory on all other inhabitants ( see Pollock and Maitland, Hist.

Until the early 18th century, the right to vote was held by all inhabitants paying scot and lot, but subsequently it was converted to a burgage franchise, meaning that the right to vote was tied to ownership of certain properties within the borough, which could be bought and sold at will.

Steinstücken, a small settlement with approximately 200 inhabitants, is the southernmost territory of the Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, belonging to Wannsee.