The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

Misunderstanding of the real meaning of a home rule charter was cited as a factor which has caused the Citizens Group to obtain signatures under what were termed `` false pretenses ''.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

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.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

Also, the old airfield at Rabasa was closed and air traffic moved to the new El Altet Airport, which made a more convenient and modern facility for charter flights bringing tourists from northern European countries.

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

Owing to the refusal of the chief officers of the corporation to take the oath of allegiance to William III in 1688, the charter was annulled, and the town subsequently declined in prosperity.

On March 3, 1764, a charter was filed to create the College in Warren, Rhode Island, reflecting the work of both Stiles and Manning.

The college's mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students " for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness & reputation " by providing instruction " in the Vernacular and Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition remarks that " At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal " and that " the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

The charter was renewed in 1742, 1764, and 1781.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

The actual charter was written in the Parliamentary Assembly based on the Congress ' Recommendations.

Oswald's foundation of a monastery at Pershore is not stated explicitly in the charter, but the Worcester chronicle Cronica de Anglia, written c. 1150, reports it under the annal for 683, and John Leland, consulting the now lost Annals of Pershore, places the event around 689.

Its charter was written in the council-manager form, leaving the mayor with few powers other than vetoing legislation passed by the council and tending to some duties involving the police department.

On October 16, 1920, Hornsby's charter was written and a new government was formed.

" The right of habeas corpus was written into the charter, as was freedom of religious worship and bans on excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishment.

He has written that on December 21, 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a " miracle service " conducted by evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman.

Walter first appears in Glanvill's household in a charter that has been dated to 1178, although as it is undated it may have been written as late as 1180.

Open Site operates under a charter written by the founders of Open Site when it started in 2002.

In addition, the oldest South Slavic document is the Bosnian statehood charter from 1189, written by Ban Kulin of Bosnia in Bosnian Cyrillic.

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.

The charter of Ecgwine ( written 714 ) records that on the feast of All Saints “ Bishop Wilfrid and I consecrated the church which I had built to God, the Blessed Mary, and to all Christ ’ s elect ”.

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 first official mention of the settlement is from 1415, as it was written in the charter issued by Dubrovnik to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, although there are numerous artefacts and objects that have been found ( The National Museum of Bosnia / Herzegovina in Sarajevo & The Regional Museum in Doboj ) and which confirm the fact that the area had been inhabited ever since the early stone age, and that the Roman Empire had an army camp ( Castrum ) and a settlement ( Canabea ) in the vicinity of the town dating from the 1st century AD.

There is no surviving record of a charter first establishing the corporation as a legal body, but the city is regarded as incorporated by prescription, meaning that the law presumes it to have been incorporated because it has for so long been regarded as such even in the absence of written documentation.

This charter, written in Latin, confirmed that the estate had been given by one Athulf to his daughter Aethelgyth.

Although, written information of a charter for the modern town was lost, evidence has suggested that this did exist as one of the many properties owned by the Earls of Fife by 1294.

A charter of 1067 given by William I ( 1028 – 87 ) to Westminster Abbey mentions a church of St. Clement, which is possibly St. Clement Eastcheap, but the earliest definite reference to the church is found in a deed written in the reign of Henry III ( 1207 – 72 ), which mentions ' St Clement Candlewickstrate '.

The first written mention of Duns is when a ' Hugo de Duns ' signed as a witness to a charter before 1214.

In one sense, the Fundamental Orders were replaced by a Royal Charter in 1662, but the major outline of the charter was written in Connecticut and embodied the Orders ' rights and mechanics.

King Cnut's charter of 1032 was " written and promulgated in the wooden church at Glastonbury, in the kings presence ".

A Serbian diplomatic mission, possibly sent from Duklja, arrives in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and was recorded in a charter of the Great Lavra Monastery, written in 993.

The earliest written record of Beath ( Beth ), was found in a charter of Inchcolm Abbey, dated 6 March 1178.

Nevertheless, the KUBG approved the charter, which Ulbrich had previously written together with Lipp and YMCA youth secretary Jakob Staehelin, and he took responsibility for the still-to-be-founded choir.

But one of the earliest written references to Machynlleth is the Royal charter granted in 1291 by Edward I to Owen de la Pole, Lord of Powys.