In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs.

Evidence of a written account in Occitan from Pamplona revolving around the burning of borough San Nicolas has reached up to our days ( 1258 ), while the History of the War of Navarre by Guilhem Anelier ( 1276 ) albeit written in Pamplona shows a linguistic variant from Toulouse.

Of these remaining 48 states, 46 use the term " county " while Alaska and Louisiana use the terms " borough " and " parish ", respectively, for analogous jurisdictions.

County members were supposed to represent landholders, while borough members were supposed to represent the mercantile and trading interests of the kingdom.

In Wales each county elected one member of Parliament, while in England each county elected two members until 1826, when Yorkshire's representation was increased to four, following the disenfranchisement of the Cornish borough of Grampound.

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.

" Drake " means a male duck, while " borough " and " burg " are synonyms.

In the northern end of the borough are the central London districts of the South Bank and Lambeth which have a developing tourist economy while at the very south of the borough are the leafy suburbs of Gipsy Hill, Tulse Hill, West Dulwich and West Norwood.

The borough is split into two divides, North Hillingdon and South Hillingdon, the latter being home to large industrial units, while North Hillingdon remains predominantly an affluent and leafy part of London, with towns of Ickenham, Ruislip and Northwood boasting high incomes per capita.

The London Borough of Hackney lies to the north of the borough while the River Lea forms the boundary with the London Borough of Newham in the east.

Thurrock includes most of the borough while South Basildon and East Thurrock includes some wards in the east of the borough.

The mills sprang up around the Willimantic River in the borough of Willimantic, while Windham remained a farming community.

It also had the thirty-fifth most Jamaicans in the US, at 3. 80 % ( tied with the borough of Brooklyn, NY and Stone Mountain, GA ,) while it had the thirty-third highest percentage of Nicaraguans, at 1. 26 % of all residents ( tied with San Bruno, California.

Both Route 27 and CR 531 pass through and intersect at the heart of the borough while Interstate 287 runs along the southern border.

A scene was filmed on the Drew University campus, while another scene was filmed at Rod's Steak House, just west of the borough limits in Convent.

The borough offers tennis, bocce, shuffleboard, basketball and roller blading opportunities on the mainland while Barnegat Bay provides fishing, crabbing, swimming, boating, sailing, windsurfing and other water sports.

Since its incorporation, Sharpsburg became an industrial town, manufacturing iron, brick and glass while goods were transported through the canal that bisected the borough, along with the Allegheny River.

The day-long event recognizes the early days of the small borough, when, in 1744, a licensed Indian trader named John Hart used a large hollowed-out log to feed and salt his horses while he conducted his trading.

The median income for a household in the borough was $ 28, 594, while the median family income was $ 36, 333.

The borough is currently in the midst of a community-wide planning project supported by a DCNR grant to develop a Heritage Tourism Work Plan by identifying heritage tourist sites, resources and themes ; by developing a way to enhance and refine these resources ; and by creating a plan to sustain local heritage tourism while enhancing the local economy.

Students to the south and east of the borough are generally assigned to Greensburg Salem, while the bulk of the students in the borough, and those who reside in the north and west portions, attend Franklin Regional.

Generally, industrial development occurred in the southern end of the borough, while the northern end remained residential.

In many parts of England, " borough " is pronounced as an independent word, and as when a suffix of a place-name.

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

Akron borough is an independent local government unit located in Lancaster County.

When Chingford was a municipal borough, before 1965, its politics were dominated by the Chingford Ratepayers ' Association, which was nominally independent, but against whom the Conservative Party did not field candidates.

A number of successful independent schools, including Avenue House School ( co-ed ages 3 – 11 ), St Benedict's School ( co-ed ), St Augstine's Priory ( girls ) and Notting Hill & Ealing High School ( girls ), are also located within the borough.

The controversial King Fahd Academy is an independent Saudi funded school within the borough.

The borough is also home to two prestigious independent girls ' schools-St Paul's Girls ' School in Brook Green ( often ranked in first place in the country in league tables, with nearly 50 % of each year group gaining entry to Oxbridge ), and the Godolphin and Latymer School, situated a few minutes ' walk from Hammersmith Broadway.

Latymer Upper School, an independent co-educational school, is also in the borough, on King Street in Hammersmith.

It is an independent metropolitan borough within Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf.

* 1873 Duisburg becomes an independent city borough.

In 1890, following a meeting of interested residents, those favoring the incorporation of Westwood as an independent borough conducted a petition drive.

By 1894, Washington Township lost one of its villages as Westwood established itself as an independent borough.

Pemberton became an independent borough c. 1894.

Within the borders of the township lies the independent municipality of Pemberton borough.

Finally, in 1905, Oaklyn broke away from Haddon Township and became an independent borough governed by a mayor and six councilmen.

North Cape May had existed as an independent borough, formed by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1928, from portions of Lower Township.

The borough remained independent until April 30, 1945, when it was returned to Lower Township.

Portions of the township have been take to form Clinton town ( April 5, 1865, within the township ; became independent in 1895 ), High Bridge township ( March 29, 1871 ) and Lebanon borough ( March 26, 1926 ).

Flemington town was formed within the township on March 14, 1870, and became an independent borough on April 7, 1910.

Portions of the township were taken to form Hightstown borough ( March 5, 1853, within East Windsor ; became independent c. 1894 ) and Robbinsville Township ( March 11, 1860, and known as Washington Township until 2007 ).

The borough became fully independent c. 1894.

On March 3, 1898, New Jersey Senate President Foster M. Voorhees, the acting Governor of New Jersey, signed a bill incorporating “ Sea Side Park ” as an independent borough, created from portions of Berkeley Township.

The borough is surrounded by Little Egg Harbor Township, but is politically independent.

Bloomingdale was incorporated as an independent borough on February 23, 1918, when Pompton Township was split up into three new municipalities along with Wanaque and Ringwood.