He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

Ethiopia was a charter member of the United Nations and took part in UN operations in Korea in 1951 and the Congo in 1960.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

Miami University and Western Michigan University took the place of those charter members for the 1948 season.

In 1210, a charter was granted to the town that included the right to hold a weekly cattle market which took place in the market square until it was moved to Trinity Square in 1834.

When the state yet again revoked Opelika's charter, the city leaders took up arms against those that opposed them, and the governor was forced to send in the militia to restore order.

The City of Harper Woods came into existence on October 29, 1951, when the charter took effect and the first city council was sworn in.

Between 1890 and 1969 the supervisor represented the town on the old Orange County Board of Supervisors – the governing body of the county until December 31, 1969, when charter government took effect.

Lebanon " when its home rule charter took effect in 1975.

In 1973, Upper St. Clair Township adopted a home rule charter that took effect on January 5, 1976, and is no longer governed by the Pennsylvania Township Code.

Portage adopted a home rule charter on May 10, 1994 that took effect on January 1, 1996.

In 1973 State College adopted a home rule charter which took effect in 1976 ; since that time, it has not been governed by the state's Borough Code, although it retains " Borough of State College " as its official name.

The borough adopted a home rule charter on May 21, 1974 that took effect on January 5, 1976.

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western took a circuitous path to ownership of Avondale because its 1854 charter limited its ownership of coal lands.

On July 24, 2010 Iron City dissolved its town charter and became an unincorporated part of Lawrence County, which previously took place ; the town was established in 1886 and incorporated in 1887.

Villèle, who before the promulgation of the charter had written some Observations sur le projet de constitution, opposing it as too democratic in character, naturally took his place on the extreme right with the ultra-royalists.

He continued to curl and played tennis into his late fifties, and took up golf at the age of sixty-four, becoming a charter member of the Mayfair Golf and Country Club.

The team is one of the ten charter members of MLS which competed in the league's first season in 1996 ( originally as the San Jose Clash ) and took part in the first game in MLS history, defeating D. C. United 1 – 0.

This was the mortgage by conveyance ( aka mortgage in fee ) or, when written, the mortgage by charter and reconveyance and took the form of a feoffment, bargain and sale, or lease and release.

The British Airports Authority ( BAA ) took control of the airport in 1975 and when BAA was privatised in the 1980s, Glasgow Airport began to offer flights to other places around the world, flights which previously were facilitated by Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which was subsequently relegated as the city's secondary airport catering for low cost airlines and charter operators.

The decision to create the League of Nations and the approval of its charter both took place during the conference.

In 1847, the city's charter was approved, elections were held and the first slate of councilmen and the mayor took office in January 1848.

After the Great War, Biggles ' adventures as a freelance charter pilot took him around the world in an unidentified amphibian named the " Vandal " ( often illustrated on covers, anachronistically, as either a Supermarine Walrus or Supermarine Sea Otter ).

In 1175 King Richard I sold Andover a charter granting the townspeople certain rights, forming a merchant guild which took over the government of the town.

The first Palmair charter took place in 1958 with a single flight to Palma followed a year later with just 2 flights.

A charter with extended privileges was drafted in 1657, but appears never to have been enrolled or to have come into effect.

Hoxby found that the effects of vouchers in Milwaukee and of charter schools in Arizona and Michigan on nearby public schools forced to compete made greater test score gains than schools not faced with such competition ( see Hoxby, 2001 ), and that the so-called effect of cream skimming did not exist in any of the voucher districts examined.

The charter came into effect on September 29, 1688, and a Corporation was established comprising a Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 60-100 Burgesses and sergeants.

In 2001, the European Union explicitly banned racism, along with many other forms of social discrimination, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the legal effect of which, if any, would necessarily be limited to Institutions of the European Union: " Article 21 of the charter prohibits discrimination on any ground such as race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, disability, age or sexual orientation and also discrimination on the grounds of nationality.

Chautauqua County was governed by a board of supervisors until 1975, when a new county charter went into effect with provisions for a county executive and a 13-seat county legislature.

The company's charter therefore was allowed to expire in 1792 and the Concept Plan of Redress was put into effect in Demerara and Essequibo.

This charter was witnessed only by Mercian bishops, and it is possible it had no effect outside Mercia, but it is also possible that it was essentially part of a reform programme inspired by Boniface and instigated at Clovesho.

Worcester's first charter, which went into effect in 1848, established a Mayor / Bicameral form of government.

In effect from January 1949 until November 1985, this charter ( as outlined in chapter 43 of the Massachusetts General Laws ) established City Council / City Manager government.

In 1908, Village Ordinance # 21 created a North Aurora Village Fire Department and a charter was given to that effect.

At that time, a new city charter will come into effect which will give the mayor a four-year term.

This charter has been amended several times, but remains in effect today.

He intended it to be " a little college of true students of theology who would defend the mysteries of Scripture against those ignorant laymen who profaned with swinish snouts its most holy pearls ".. To this effect, he obtained a charter for the College from King Henry VI, which combined the parishes of All Saints, St Michael's at the North Gate and St Mildred's within the College under a rector.

Although its charter was revised in 1905, the original charter remains in effect, making Bristol one of the older boroughs in Pennsylvania.

The community was long organized as a township, and retains " Township " in its official name, but adopted a home rule charter in 1973 ( taking effect on January 5, 1976 ) and is no longer subject to the Pennsylvania Township Code.

Printing gradually displaced manuscript production and, by the time that the Guild received a royal charter of incorporation on 4 May 1557, it was in effect a Printers ' Guild.

Citing the need to be more economically competitive in the midst of globalization and the need to improve governance for all Filipinos, Ramos suggested that government should start the process of Charter Change with a set deadline in 2007 ( by which time the new charter and new government will take effect ).