The Texians staged a minor revolt against customs duties in June ; these Anahuac Disturbances prompted Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna to send additional troops to Texas.

He stepped down from his duties as president to lead what he dubbed the Army of Operations in Texas, which would relieve Cos and put an end to the Texan revolt.

In 1853, John Coffee " Jack " Hays, a famous Texas Ranger, was one of the first to establish residence in Oakland while performing his duties as Sheriff of San Francisco.

The Lieutenant Governor is a weak office compared to other counterparts ( in other states including Texas, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State's Senate, while in California the Lieutenant Governor assumes all of the Governor's powers when the sitting Governor is out of the state ), as it only possesses the powers and duties that the Governor assigns to him or her.

However, in recent years, the Texas Supreme Court has been limiting employer duties to maintain employee safety, effectively weakening the ability of injured employees to pursue remedies against negligent employers.

Kent Hance, a Texas Tech graduate who had served as United States Representative and as one of the three elected members of the Texas Board which regulates the oil-and-gas industry, assumed the duties of chancellor on December 1, 2006.

In 1963, after a heart operation in Houston, Texas Cherry was unable to devote full time to his duties but went to his office in Washington, D. C., several times a week.

His early duties included recruiting soldiers and bringing them to the Texas border.

To bear the costs of the war against Texas, the government imposed a variety of taxes including raising importation duties on many items, and indeed put taxation of the movement of even local goods.

The duties of the Texas Ranger Division consist of conducting criminal and special investigations ; apprehending wanted felons ; suppressing major disturbances ; the protection of life and property ; and rendering assistance to local law enforcement in suppressing crime and violence.

The laws also canceled all unfilled empresario contracts and established customs houses in Texas to enforce the collection of customs duties.

He stepped down from his duties as president to lead what he dubbed the Army of Operations in Texas, which would put an end to the Texas revolt.

In June, a small group of settlers in Texas used the political unrest as an excuse to rebel against customs duties, in an incident known as the Anahuac Disturbances.

Texas Rangers were also sporadically assigned to patrol duties by the state, and their efforts were noted as " singularly effective ".

Since leaving NASA, Gordon has served as Executive Vice President of the New Orleans Saints Professional Football Club in the National Football League ( 1972 – 76 ); was General Manager of Energy Developers, Limited ( EDL ), a Texas Partnership involved in a joint venture with Rocket Research Corporation for the development of a liquid chemical explosive for use in the oil and gas industry ( 1977 ); President of Resolution Engineering and Development Company ( REDCO ) which provided design and operational requirements for wild oil well control and fire fighting equipment onboard large semi-submersible utility vessels ( 1978 ); following REDCO merger with Amarco Resources, Gordon assumed the additional duties of Vice President of Marketing, Westdale, an oil well servicing subsidiary of AMARCO operating in North Central Texas and Oklahoma, and also served as Vice President for Operations, Texas Division ( 1980 ); served as Director, Scott Science and Technology, Inc., Los Angeles Division ( 1981 – 1983 ).

In September 1945, he was assigned to the Air Training Command at Fort Worth and Randolph Field, Texas, where he remained until April 1946, when he assumed duties with the 58th Bombardment Wing and participated in the Bikini Atoll atomic weapons tests.

Valentine was serving as third base coach for the Mets when he was tapped by the Texas Rangers to take over managing duties from Doug Rader 32 games into the 1985 season.

After graduation, Roloff began preaching at small country churches in southern Texas, before taking on pastoral duties at churches in Houston and later Corpus Christi.

The Texians staged a minor revolt against customs duties in June ; these Anahuac Disturbances prompted Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna to send additional troops to Texas.

The laws also canceled all unfilled empresario contracts and established customs houses in Texas to enforce the collection of customs duties.

The constable serves a four year term and has similar powers and duties to sheriffs.

The constable had a number of duties, many of which continue today.

The constable shall exercise the same powers as police officers while in the performance of the lawful duties of their employment.

A constable is, however, a public peace officer and requires a bond as condition for faithful performance of their duties, and M. G. L.

JP's were replaced by magistrates and the duties of constable were absorbed by sheriffs.

An ' acting ' sergeant, such as a substantive constable being paid an allowance to undertake the duties of a sergeant for a short period of time, displays two pointing-down chevrons above the divisional call sign, and shoulder number.

When executing a warrant issued in Scotland, the constable executing it shall have the same powers and duties, and the person arrested the same rights, as they would have had if execution had been in Scotland by a constable of a police force in Scotland.

When a constable arrests a person in Scotland, the arrested person shall have the same rights and the constable the same powers and duties as they would have were the constable a constable of a police force in Scotland.

Constables from the Metropolitan Police who are on protection duties in Scotland or Northern Ireland have all the powers and privileges of a constable of the local territorial police force.

Upon taking an oath for one of these forces, they have all the powers and privileges, duties and responsibilities of a constable in one of the three distinct legal systems-either England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, and the territorial waters of that country.

In 1391 he was put on the commission which undertook the duties of constable in place of the duke of Gloucester, and he was repeatedly engaged in negotiations with the Scots.

I, ________________, having been appointed a constable to act upon and along the lines of _________ Railway under the provisions of the Canada Transportation Act do swear that I am a Canadian citizen ; that I will well and truly serve the legally constituted authorities in the said office as constable without favor or affection, malice or ill-will ; that I will do the best of my power cause the peace to be kept and prevent all offences against the peace ; and that while I continue to hold the said office I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge the duties thereof faithfully, according to Law.

The High Court Tipstaff may appoint three assistants and can call on any constable, bailiff or member of the public to assist in carrying out their duties and their jurisdiction extends throughout England & Wales.

The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and his deputy are paid significantly more than any chief constable, partly because the Metropolitan Police has national anti-terrorism and security duties that overlap with other local forces.

It was governed by the Great Council, composed of consuls, who were replaced by a council of novemviri ( nine men ), a mayor, with supervisory functions, a constable, to act as military leaders, and a mayor for judicial duties.

In England, the word came to refer to a parish constable of the Anglican Church, one often charged with duties of charity.

Under various provincial policing legislations and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, the role of auxiliary constable is to assist regular, or sworn, police constables in the execution of their duties, as well as to provide assistance in community policing.

At trial, Fagan was convicted of " Assaulting a constable in execution of his duties ".

Police officers and court officials have a general power to use force for the purpose of performing an arrest or generally carrying out their official duties.

Non-employees generally are employed by outside agencies or firms, but perform their duties within a corporation or similar entity.

He had certain ceremonial duties in the conclave that have effectively ceased because he would generally have already reached age 80, at which cardinals are barred from the conclave.

As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of " First lady ": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints.

The role of the head of state generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of state in the country's constitution and laws.

In this era, congressmen generally found lodging in boarding houses when they were in the nation ’ s capital performing their legislative duties.

Notaries are generally required to undergo special training in the performance of their duties.

* Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties

Because such duties were often shared with that of the sysadmin prior to the advent of the world wide web, the term sysop is often used more generally to refer to an administrator or moderator, such as a forum administrator, hence the term sysadmin is technically used to distinguish the professional position of a network operator.

Adorno resumed his teaching duties at the university soon after his arrival, with seminars on " Kant ’ s Transcendental Dialectic ," aesthetics, Hegel, “ Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Knowledge ” and “ The Concept of Knowledge .” Adorno ’ s surprise at his students ' passionate interest in intellectual matters did not, however, blind him to continuing problems within Germany: The literary climate was dominated by writers who had remained in Germany during Hitler's rule, the government re-employed people who had been active in the Nazi apparatus and people were generally loath to own up to their own collaboration or the guilt they thus incurred.

Throughout the 1960s, Thurmond generally received relatively low marks from the press and his fellow senators in the performance of his Senate duties, as he often missed votes and rarely proposed or sponsored noteworthy legislation.

Episcopal sees are generally arranged in groups in which the bishop who is the ordinary of one of them has certain powers and duties of oversight over the other sees.

As a legislative branch of government, a legislature generally performs state duties for a state in the same way that the United States Congress performs national duties at the national level.

If the president is not present, dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill his or her duties, the vice president will generally serve as president.

Hong Kong is a free port and generally does not impose duties on imported or exported goods, with the exceptions of liquors, tobacco, methyl alcohol and hydrocarbon oil.

RUC ranks, duties, conditions of service and pay were generally in line with those of police forces in Great Britain.

There are also strict restrictions on the intervention of the military within Germany ( i. e. a ban of the military being used for police-type duties ), which generally only allow the military to act in unarmed roles within Germany ( such as disaster relief ).

Government originally intended that Article 93, stating that treaties of a generally binding nature would only have such binding force after they had been published, to be simply a safeguard, protecting the citizen against duties imposed on him by such treaty.

Although Kohanim may assume their duties once they reached physical maturity, the fraternity of Kohanim generally would not allow young Kohanim to begin service until they reached the age of twenty, some opinions state that this age was thirty.

The office of mayor in most modern English and Welsh boroughs and towns did not in the 20th century entail any important administrative duties, and was generally regarded as an honour conferred for local distinction, long service on the Council, or for past services.

Over forty-four years he continued to discharge the duties of this appointment, and died in 1803, generally esteemed and missed.

*; Anne: Anne is the youngest in the group, and generally takes care of their domestic duties during the Five's various camping holidays.

These statistics are normally readily available and are generally reliable in terms of identifying what crime is being dealt with by law enforcement organisations, as they are gathered by law enforcement officers in the course of their duties and are often extracted directly from law enforcement computer systems.