A royal decree issued in 1910, two years after the Belgian government assumed authority for the administration of the Congo, prescribed the registration of all adult males by chiefdoms.

In the Church of England, the Bishop of Norwich, by royal decree given by Henry VIII, also holds the honorary title of " Abbot of St.

Worried all women will learn from this, Ahasuerus removes her as queen and has a royal decree sent across the empire that men should be the ruler of their households and should speak their own native tongue.

The first official census in the Philippines was carried out by the Spanish government pursuant to a royal decree calling for the counting of persons living as of the midnight of December 31, 1877.

" Al-Obeikan, however, was subsequently removed from his position as advisor to the royal cabinet in May 2012 after opposing moves to relax gender segregation, and in August of 2012, Obeikan ’ s morning radio show “ Fatwas on Air ,” in which he would issue daily fatwas, was canceled after a royal decree that authorizes only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas.

Vincent Ogé traveled to St. Domingue to secure the promulgation and implementation of this decree, landing near Cap-Français ( now Cap-Haïtien ) in October 1790 and petitioning the royal governor, the Comte de Peynier.

Only in 1341 were they once again able to settle in the town, by royal decree.

James had a controversial religious policy ; his attempt to grant freedom of religion to non-Anglicans by suspending acts of Parliament by royal decree was not well received.

Shortly thereafter, on 3 March 1951, the Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles () was issued by royal decree, giving fairly large autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles.

González Dávila was authorized by royal decree, and came in from the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree.

More directly, it is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was a royal decree granting exclusive rights to a person, predating the modern patent system.

The political and judicial reforms Amānullāh proposed were equally radical for the time and included the creation of Afghanistan's first constitution ( in 1923 ), the guarantee of civil rights ( first by decree and later constitutionally ), national registration and identity cards for the citizenry, the establishment of a legislative assembly, a court system to enforce new secular penal, civil, and commercial codes, prohibition of blood money, and abolition of subsidies and privileges for tribal chiefs and the royal family.

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, although, according to the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia adopted by royal decree in 1992, the king must comply with Sharia ( that is, Islamic law ) and the Quran.

It was here that tin ingots were weighed to determine the duty due to the Duke of Cornwall when a number of stannary towns were authorised by royal decree.

* Coffee is forbidden by royal decree in Sweden.

* July 15 – The Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal decree.

* King Ferdinand VII of Spain, by royal decree, makes the production and sale of tobacco a legal endeavor in Cuba, thus sparking the birth of the Cuban cigar industry.

The Catholic Monarchs chose the city of Granada as their burial site by a royal decree dated September 13, 1504.

* The three independent boroughs of Pamplona are united into a single town by royal decree after centuries of feuds.

In 1519, after years of ignoring his petitions, King Manuel I finally hurried to give Vasco da Gama a feudal title, appointing him the first Count of Vidigueira, a count title created by a royal decree issued in Évora on December 29, after a complicated agreement with Dom Jaime, Duke of Braganza, who ceded him on payment the towns of Vidigueira and Vila dos Frades.

This decree granted Vasco da Gama and his heirs all the revenues and privileges related, thus establishing da Gama as the first Portuguese count who was not born with royal blood.

In March he issued a royal decree forbidding the use of the term " Palestine " in any legal documents, and pursued other measures designed to make the fact that there would not be an independent Palestine clear and certain.

Some royal assent was obtained, since the printer Joseph Barnes began work, and a decree of Star Chamber noted the legal existence of a press at " the universitie of Oxforde " in 1586.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

Decisions are made by establishing a consensus within the royal family ( comprising the numerous descendants of the kingdom ’ s founder, Abdul Aziz ).

Currently, Edward I is credited with many accomplishments during his reign, including restoring royal authority after the reign of Henry III, establishing parliament as a permanent institution and thereby also a functional system for raising taxes, and reforming the law through statutes.

Much of that work has been establishing the genealogy and history of the sultans and royal family.

The Arab writers speak of the kings of the northwest of Iberia as the Beni-Alfons ( descendants of Alfonso ), and appear to recognize them as a Galician royal stock derived from Alfonso I. Alfonso is credited with establishing the shrine of Our Lady of Covadonga, in commemoration of his father in law's victory at the Battle of Covadonga.

He has succeeded in establishing himself as claimant in the international press and currently ( in the politics of Iraq ) Prince Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein is the only Iraqi royal campaigning in Iraq for the return of a monarchy based on a constitutional monarchy.

The French general Alfred Dodds offered the throne to every one of the immediate royal family, in return for a signature on a treaty establishing a French protectorate over the Kingdom ; all refused.

These Acts sought to demonstrate that establishing royal jurisdiction over the Church would ensure progress in " religious reformation " where papal authority had been insufficient.

And so, in 1694, King William of England granted a royal charter establishing the town of " Kingstown ", so named in honor of the King.

In November 1840 a royal charter was signed by Queen Victoria, establishing New Zealand as a Crown colony separate from New South Wales from May 1841.

May the joint efforts of the royal authorities, the local police, the Wernigerode Nature Conservation Society and individual friends of the Brocken also succeed now in central Germany, through caring nurture across the board, in establishing and preserving the Brocken too, as a small, but unique, nature reserve for the German people.

Hnatyshyn thereafter made an effort to open up Rideau Hall the monarch's and governor general's residence in Ottawa to the public, establishing a visitors ' centre and initiating guided tours of the palace and the royal park in which it sits.

Guru says in Sri Guru Granth Sahib ( Page 1093 ), " By establishing the nine houses and a royal mansion above i. e. the tenth door of our body also called ' mokh dwar ', the Lord comes to abide in his own mansion i. e. the tenth one.

The London Company ( also called the Charter of the Virginia Company of London ) was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by King James I with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

Louis I's decree also regulated the legal status of the cneazes, the Romanians ' local leaders, by establishing a distinction between cneazes " brought to " their lands by royal writ whose testimony in court weighed like that of nobles (" noble cneazes "), and others whose evidence counted for less (" commoner cneazes ").

In 1728, a royal expedition under Major Claus Paarss arrived with four supply ships and relocated the Kangeq colony to the mainland opposite, establishing a fort named Godt-Haab (" Good Hope "), the future Godthåb.

In approximately 650 BC, the Argeads, an ancient Greek royal house led by Perdiccas I, fled from Argos and established their capital at Aegae, thereby also establishing the Kingdom of Macedon.

Under royal finance and support, American missionary doctor Horace N. Allen introduced Western medicine by establishing Gwanghyewon, what would become Severance Hospital and the oldest Western-style hospital in Korea.

* September 20-The Income War Tax Act receives royal assent, establishing a " temporary " tax, which remains in force to this day.

The dispute which began in his lifetime concerning the hereditary office of Lord High Constable between the families of Erroll and of the Earl Marischal was settled finally in favour of the former ; thus establishing the precedence enjoyed by the earls of Erroll next after the royal family over all other subjects in Scotland.

Penda had allowed bishops to operate in Mercia, although none had succeeded in establishing the Church securely without active royal support.

The first patent establishing the Province of Maine was granted on August 10, 1622 to Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason by the Plymouth Council for New England, which itself had been granted a royal patent by James I to the coast of North America between the 40th to the 48th parallel " from sea to sea ".

In 1647, she attached herself to the interests of the moderate Presbyterian party, which assembled at her house, and in the Second Civil War showed great zeal and activity in the royal cause, pawning her pearl necklace for £ 1500 to raise money for Lord Holland's troops, establishing communications with Prince Charles during his blockade of the Thames, and making herself the intermediary between the scattered bands of royalists and the queen.

He resents the Narn for their eventual success in establishing themselves as a viable independent power and for what he feels is their part in the increasingly unimportant and humiliating political positions he has held in the latter years of his life, most of which were diplomatic titles with little significance in the royal court.