" However, owing to having 3 Republicans and 3 Democrats as commissioners, the organization is regularly deadlocked with a 3-3 vote.

In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

This agency consisted of three commissioners who were charged with analyzing the state road system and making recommendations.

After the commissioners submitted their report to the Governor on November 25, 1896, the Legislature replaced the Bureau with the Department of Highways.

The new rule was controversial, with two commissioners dissenting, and was later challenged in court by a hedge fund manager.

There in 1374 negotiations were carried on between France and England, while at the same time commissioners from England dealt with papal delegates respecting the removal of ecclesiastical annoyances.

Under Moi, the apparatus of clientage and control was underpinned by the system of powerful provincial commissioners, each with a bureaucratic hierarchy based on chiefs ( and their police ) that was more powerful than the elected members of parliament.

It consists of commissioners elected by presbyteries ( not synods ), and its voting membership is proportioned with parity between elders and Ministers of Word and Sacrament.

As the king planned on how to conclude the war, he was informed that Roman commissioners, led by the Proconsul Gaius Popillius Laenas, were near and requesting a meeting with the Seleucid king.

* To All Who These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in consequence of propositions of peace, or cessation of hostilities, being submitted to me, as Commandant of the California Battalion of the United States forces, which have so far been acceded to by me as to cause me to appoint a board of commissioners to confer with a similar board appointed by the Californians, and it requiring a little time to close the negotiations ; it is agreed upon and ordered by me that an entire cessation of hostilities shall take place until to-morrow afternoon ( January 13 ), and that the said Californians be permitted to bring in their wounded to the mission of San Fernando, where, also, if they choose, they can move their camp to facilitate said negotiations.

In addition to coming up with a city plan, L ' Enfant had been tasked with designing the Capitol and President's House, however he was dismissed in February 1792 over disagreements with President George Washington and the commissioners, and there were no plans at that point for the Capitol.

On July 16, 1792, the President met with the commissioners of the federal city to make his judgment in the architectural competition.

The Bermudians on the Turks appointed commissioners to govern themselves, with the assent of the King's local agent.

Admiral Gottfried Hanson, head of the Verband deutscher Soldaten veterans ' group in a letter in support of Raeder sent to the three western high commissioners ' for Germany declared: " As a friend of many years ' standing, and certain that all ex-members of the Navy will agree with me, I venture to say that no military leader could had educated and influenced his subordinates from a higher moral and Christian level than did Raeder ... both as a man and a Christian ... How can genuine peace and real understanding among the nations of the occident be brought about ... if true right and justice is not applied to the Germans that are still be kept prisoners?

Such decrees were formulated in close consultation with the resident commissioners, who in turn took informal and formal advice from white settler interests and the Swazi royalty.

The commissioners are charged with executing the acts legislated by the council, collecting revenue, and managing the day-to-day functions of the county government.

The first county election was held on March 1, 1823, with 61 voters participating to elect the first three county commissioners — William Offield, James Blevins and John McCollough — who then ordered that the first jail and courthouse be built.

In November 2010, Potter County commissioners awarded the bid for the 2011 use of the stadium to Scott Berry, owner of Southern Independent Baseball and franchisee with the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

The British defeat of the Sikhs in 1846 resulted in transfer of sovereignty over Ladakh to the British, and British commissioners attempted to meet with Chinese officials to discuss the border they now shared.

The current county commissioners are John Petroff, Louenda Downs, and Bret Millburn, with Commissioner Petroff currently serving as Commission Chair and Commissioner Downs serving as Vice Chair.

Although the French commissioners were unwilling to treat with the insurgent Lords of the Congregation, they offered the Scots certain concessions from King Francis and Queen Mary, including the right to summon a parliament according to use and custom.

stadiums ( and sometimes names ) with the local baseball team, and both leagues saw fit to choose college football legends as their commissioners.

In 1835 ( 2 years later ), the county seat was moved by the commissioners to nearby Wedowee.

The current Skagit County commissioners include Sharon Dillon, a Democrat from District 3, which encompasses Burlington east of Interstate 5, Sedro-Woolley, and the rest of eastern Skagit County ; Ken Dahlstedt, a Democrat from District 2, which covers Mount Vernon, Conway, and south county ; and Ron Wesen, a Republican from District 1, which includes Anacortes, La Conner, and that area of the county west of Interstate 5 and north of McLean Road.

Enough of the 2, 000 shares had been subscribed, and the commissioners went ahead and approved a survey map created for the turnpike.

The city is governed by a mayor and two commissioners elected at large for 2 year terms.

* in Germany there were also four major occupation zones: the British Zone ( after three consecutive Military governors from 22 May 1945, the last stayed on as first of three consecutive High Commissioners 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the US Zone ( after five Military governors from 8 May 1945, four High Commissioners 2 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the Soviet Zone ( after a military commander April 1945 – 9 June 1945 who stayed as first of three Military governors 9 June 1945 – 10 October 1949, the last of whom stayed on as only Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission 10 October 1949 – 28 May 1953, two High commissioners 28 May 1953 – 20 September 1955 ) and the French Zone ( after a Military commander from May 1945 and a Military governor from July 1945, a single High commissioner 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ); the Nazi capital, Berlin, enclaved in the Soviet zone, is separately quartered under four military City Commanders ; only the small Dutch zone by the border is destined for annexation in 1949, so it is divided up in two districts, each under a landdrost ( Tudderen, attached to the province of ( Dutch ) Limburg and Elten, attached to Gelderland province ), but returned to Germany after compensation payments and minor border corrections on 11 August 1963

In 1716, a document was addressed saying that the bakufu would appoint two commissioners of Foreign Trade in Edo and Nagasaki, and that 30 Chinese ships and 2 Dutch ships be allowed to enter the country each year.

The Election Assistance Commission includes four commissioners ( 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans ) appointed by the President and subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.

* 2 — Wayne County, Georgia commissioners vote to bar the use of county funds to " promote " homosexuality.

Because about 2, 334 acres of Calverton had been enclosed in such a short time, it seems very likely that much of the detail mentioned in the award had already been agreed by the principal owners, and the work of the commissioners will have been to satisfy the claims of those villagers who perhaps owned no land at all, but did have common rights around the parish.

Saye was one of the commissioners for the government from Westminster of the plantations appointed on 2 November 1643.

In a press conference on October 2, 2008, Tarek Fatah, a founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, claimed that the Ontario Human Rights Commission ( OHRC ) had been " infiltrated by Islamists " and that some of its commissioners were closely linked to the Canadian Islamic Congress and the Canadian Arab Federation, both of which, according to Fatah, have " contempt for Canadian values.

* At least 2 / 3 of the commissioners must be from people who have resided in Taiwan for more than ten years.

Barnes ' widow won a $ 5. 2 million lawsuit and county commissioners agreed to pay $ 5 million to Brandau's daughter, Christina Scholte, who also sued.

Since 2010, the Commission consists of six commissioners who are appointed by the cities of Hampton ( 2 ) and Newport News ( 4 ).

A joint report was prepared together with a map and duly signed by their respective commissioners in Tawau on 17 / 2 / 1913.

In 1776 the commissioners raised an additional £ 2, 000, with which they hoped to construct a new lock at Thornham Bottoms, below Snakeholme, and to dredge the river below that.

* 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries ' Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* January 6 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase of land for the county seat of Chatham County.

He wrote to Dr. Southwood Smith, one of eighty-four commissioners responsible for the Second Report, about his change in plans: " ou will certainly feel that a Sledge hammer has come down with twenty times the force – twenty thousand times the force – I could exert by following out my first idea.

County Judge Henry Harrison " Hank " Campbell ( 1840 – 1911 ) and the four county commissioners at the time awarded a construction contract to local builders J. F.

Following the turmoil of World War I 1914 – 1918, the 1916 rising, the Irish War of Independence 1919 – 1921, and the Irish Civil War 1921 – 1923, the Irish government found it necessary to remove the members of several local authorities and replace them temporarily by paid commissioners.

Having regard to the city's experience of commissioners and recent experience in the United States a council – manager plan of city government was proposed.

From 1909 – 1916, he served as one of the Philippines ' two resident commissioners to the U. S. House of Representatives, lobbying for the passage of the Philippine Autonomy Act or Jones Law.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

He designed one church for the commissioners – St George's, Hanover Square – and collaborated with Hawksmoor on the design of two others, St John Horsleydown in Southwark and St Luke Old Street.

* 3 – Multnomah County, Oregon, which includes the city of Portland, becomes the second county in the United States where same-sex marriages are legally performed after four county commissioners decide the current state law banning marriage from same-sex couples is against the Oregon constitution.

* 16 – Rhea County, Tennessee commissioners vote 8 – 0 to ask that state law be changed to allow county officials to effectively ban homosexuals from the county by being able to charge them with " crimes against nature.

* 17 – Hillsborough County, Florida commissioners repeal the county's gay rights law.