* Seven justices ( the five Justice majority plus Breyer and Souter ) agreed that there was an Equal Protection Clause violation in using different standards of counting in different counties.

The Payne brothers focused on the Queens and Kilkenney counties, and provided transportation, employment and homes to those who agreed to move.

Both Gwinnett and Clayton counties initially agreed to join MARTA but refused MARTA rail and bus service when voters in their respective counties voted against paying to help fund the system.

The origins of the M62 date back to the 1930s, where the need for a route between Lancashire and Yorkshire had been agreed after discussion by the respective highway authorities of the counties.

The turning point came when several DP members of parliament from Bunyoro agreed to join the government side if Obote would undertake a popular referendum to restore the " lost counties " to Bunyoro.

But, the assembly members agreed to meet in June at Annapolis after they went home to determine the wishes of the citizens in the counties they represented.

He agreed only reluctantly to Redmond conceding to six counties temporarily opting out of the Home Rule Act 1914, which in September received Royal Assent but was suspended for the duration of World War I.

For the 1873 season, county cricket moved a step closer towards an organised competition when the counties agreed qualification rules for players to be eligible for a team ; for many years, this was considered to be start of the County Championship.

While a Ritchie victory was widely predicted, when Nice took all but three counties the postmortems agreed that the governor's longevity ' and the cry of ` too long ' ' was the fundamental explanation, although the opposition of Baltimore blacks and labor also seemed significant.

Rejected asylum seekers were to return to their home counties, whose governments agreed to refrain from any discrimination, harassment, persecution or unfair treatment.

Most pundits agreed that the Democratic primary was the real election, as Cook County is one of the most Democratic counties in the entire nation.

Originally intended to grant self-government to the entire island of Ireland as a single jurisdiction under Dublin administration, the final version as enacted in 1914 included an amendment clause for six Ulster counties to remain under London administration for a proposed trial period of six years, yet to be finally agreed.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

Just as the national and state parks place emphasis on features which are of national or state significance, counties should seek out these features which are distinctive of their area.

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.

Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

On November 8, 2011, voters in more than 100 Georgia cities and counties voted on a bill which would allow stores to sell alcohol on Sundays.

Additionally, vehicle sales are banned on Sunday in counties having a population of 130, 000 or more.

Hunting on Sunday is illegal in 41 of 55 counties.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

However on the confiscation of lands relating to Hugh Maguire, Fermanagh was divided in similar manner to the other five escheated counties among Scottish and English undertakers and native Irish.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Built originally to provide a shortcut for traffic originating in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, the bridge served industrial and residential areas on both sides.

FBI agents and Sheriff's deputies from those counties searched large areas of the mountainous wilderness on foot and by helicopter.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

The act called for the creation of statutory counties, based on the ancient / historic counties, but completely corrected for enclaves and exclaves, and adjusted so that all settlements were completely within a single county.

Onto the blank canvas, new counties were created to cover the entire country ; many of these were obviously based on the historic counties, but there were some major changes, especially in the north.

A convention of Irish Protestant Churches in Dublin in May 1922 signed a resolution placing " on record " that " hostility to Protestants by reason of their religion has been almost, if not wholly, unknown in the twenty-six counties in which Protestants are in the minority.

Story County was chosen as the location on June 21, 1859, from proposals by Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

Four of Ontario's electoral districts were also erroneously listed as counties of residence in some of Canada's first post-Confederation censuses.

It is sometimes also considered one of Ontario's historic counties, as it was listed in some post-Confederation census records as a county of residence.

Cardwell is sometimes also considered one of Ontario's historic counties, as Cardwell was listed in some post-Confederation census records as a county of residence.

It is sometimes also considered one of Ontario's historic counties, as it was listed in some post-Confederation census records as a county of residence.

It is sometimes also considered one of Ontario's historic counties, as it was listed in some post-Confederation census records as a county of residence.

He carried 115 of Kentucky's 120 counties – besting Carroll's old record of 99 – but lost in Fayette, his county of residence.

By this time, however, he had qualified for England by residence, and so was sought after by several other counties.

The committee recommended the creation of three new counties, including Madison, Mercer, and Garrard's county of residence, Bourbon.

The issue divided Ireland, for a significant unionist minority ( largely though by no means exclusively based in Ulster ), opposed Home Rule, fearing that a Catholic-Nationalist parliament in Dublin would discriminate against them and would also impose tariffs on industry ; while most of Ireland was primarily agricultural, six counties in Ulster were the location of heavy industry and would be affected by any tariff barriers imposed.

Historically, the counties of Meath, Westmeath and small parts of surrounding counties constituted the province of Mide, which was one of the " Five Fifths " of Ireland ( in the Irish language the word for province, Cuige, from Cuig, five means " a fifth "); however, these have long since become the three northernmost counties of Leinster province.

* January 9 – The second Union of Brussels is formed, first without the Protestant counties of Holland and Zeeland ( which is accepted by king Philip II of Spain ), later with the Protestants, which means open rebellion of the whole of the Netherlands.

Columbia County is one of several North Florida counties that vote more " southern " than the rest of the state, which means the county tends to vote Republican in presidential elections, but can support Democrats for state and local offices if they are conservative.

Panola County is one of approximately thirty entirely dry counties in the state of Texas, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

The county is among the dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

‡ means a populated place has portions in an adjacent county or counties

The name means " long wooded valley " and the valley marks the boundary between the counties of Derbyshire and Greater Manchester.

This PDO status means that only cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire and made according to a strict code may be called " Stilton ".

In 1983, a fifth county ( Heshan ) was added to the Jiangmen prefecture, and so the term Siyi, which literally means " four counties ", has become an anachronism.

The last commission gave to the justices of the liberty, power to enquire more fully "... by the oath of good and lawful men of the Liberty of Peterborough, by whom the truth of the matter may be better known and by other ways, means and methods by which they shall or better know, of the treasons ... insurrections ... rebellions, counterfeitings, clippings, wastings, false comings ... murders, felonies, manslaughters ... and many other grave offences mentioned therein which in other counties are only triable by a Judge of Assize, and the Justices are commanded at days appointed for this purpose to make diligent enquiries into and to hear and determine the above mentioned offences.

In that case, " Western Oregon " means only the counties west of the Cascades and north of and including Lane County.

In 1876 the Kingdom of Hungary was divided into seven Circles, with a total of 64 counties The Circle on the left bank of the Theiss contained eight counties, including Bihar Megye ( Megye means county ), with the other seven being Békés, Hajdú, Máramaros, Szabolcs, Szatmár, Szilágy and Ugocsa.

The name means " boundary " in ancient celtic and this fits nicely with the fact that it is on the boundary with both the counties of Cheshire and Staffordshire.

Tradition seems to be at fault in putting Guy's adventures anachronistically in the reign of Athelstan ; the Anlaf of the story is probably Olaf Tryggvason, who, with Sweyn I of Denmark, harried the southern counties of England in 993 and pitched his winter quarters in Southampton ; this means the King of England at the time was Æthelred Unready II.

The village name is originally Brythonic and means simply hill: the village stands on a particular promontory of the Chiltern Hills, and from the tower of the Holy Trinity Church in the village it is supposedly possible to see into not less than eight other counties.

The name had been coined and adopted by the newspaper in the 1980s as a means of giving its circulation area more of a shared identity than earlier alternatives -- " Greater Framingham " ( which many towns in the paper's northern coverage area, western Middlesex County, did not feel they belonged to ) and " South Middlesex " ( which excluded towns in other counties ).

After an extensive public participation program, including 21 public hearings in six counties, a unified system of buses and ferries emerged as the best means to serve the people of Marin and Sonoma counties.

The bridge, costing $ 7, 050, was paid for by the counties of Fauquier, Culpeper, and Rappahannock as a means for local farmers and merchants to deliver goods to market.

It is on the Kirkby branch line from and means the service ( which is provided by Northern Rail, who also manage the station ) runs through three counties on its journey from Wigan to.