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

He pointed out to the commissioners that the agency was literally dependent now on the machine processing, `` and the whole wheels of the agency would stop if it broke down or the three or four persons directing it were to leave ''.

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

Some days after that meeting, the delegation was approached by three French agents ( at first identified as " X ", " Y ", and " Z " in published papers, leading the controversy to be called the " XYZ Affair ") who demanded substantial bribes from the commissioners before negotiations could continue.

The Act authorized the President to appoint three commissioners to survey and acquire property for this seat.

In early 2012, another ballot initiative was presented to voters requesting their approval to decrease the number of county commissioners back to three even before seating the two additional commissioners.

This second special election, held on May 8, 2012, returned the number of commissioners on the council back to the original number of three.

Leach sent three commissioners to Milan to interrogate Caroline's former servants, including Theodore Majocchi and Caroline's maid, Louise Demont.

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?

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.

The three county commissioners are elected from single-member magisterial districts and serve six-year terms, staggered so that one seat is up for election every even year.

On 19 December 1794 he was visited by three commissioners from the Committee of General Security — J.

Daggett County is governed by three commissioners, an auditor / recorder, a clerk / treasurer, an assessor and a sheriff, all elected for four-year terms in partisan elections.

The government is an elected county commission made up of three commissioners.

As of 2011, the three county commissioners are Gary Anderson, Doug Witney, and Larry Ellertson.

The terms are staggered so that either three or two commissioners ( alternately ) are up for election every two years.

The MEAC has had to date, three full-time commissioners.

Before the implementation of the home-rule charter on January 1, 2000, there were three county commissioners.

The board consists of five members who are each is elected to a four-year term, which is staggered so not more than three commissioners are elected at the same time.

Superior court staff include three judges, three full-time court commissioners, two part-time court commissioners, and support staff.

Most districts have three commissioners.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide, carrying all but three states, and receiving 78 percent of the Union soldiers ' vote.

On all three occasions, 35 senators voted " guilty " and 19 " not guilty ", thus falling short by a single vote of the two-thirds majority required for conviction in impeachment trials.

A member who accepts a service position or an organizing role is a " trusted servant " with terms rotating and limited, typically lasting three months to two years and determined by group vote and the nature of the position.

These influences washed into municipal politics during the early and mid-1970s when three members of the Human Rights Party ( HRP ) won city council seats on the strength of the student vote.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 % of the national party vote or three ( directly elected ) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

This usually consists of three new comic strips being run for a number of weeks and the readers can vote on which strips they prefer and the one that receives the most votes stays in the Beano.

Before that, dating back to 1970, writers voted for three pitchers, with the formula of 5 points for a first place vote, 3 for a second place vote and 1 for a third place vote.

After a tie in the 1969 voting, the process was changed, in which each writer was to vote for three different pitchers: the first-place vote received five points, the second-place vote received three points, and the third-place vote received one point.

After the passage of the 19th Amendment gave women the vote in 1920, Eastman and three others wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in 1923.

A party must receive either five percent of the national vote or win at least three directly elected seats to be eligible for non-constituency seats in the Bundestag.

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

Other electors were added in the 17th century, including the Duke of Bavaria ( referred to as the Elector of Bavaria — replacing the Count Palatine of the Rhine, who was of the same family but had lost his title and vote temporarily during the Thirty Years ' War ), and the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( the Elector of Hanover-an office subsequently held by three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain, George I, George II, and George III ).

Prodi's government became the third-longest to stay in power before he narrowly lost a vote of confidence, by three votes, in October 1998.

In addition to the main competition, the entries take part in the Miss Congeniality contest, where the participating authors vote for three games ( not including their own ).

However, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2002, Tito's opponents won major victories, and in March 2003 he was ousted in a no-confidence vote ( having served the maximum three terms, he is barred by the constitution to run for another term ).

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

The most valuable player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer.

Typically, however, the one-way ANOVA is used to test for differences among at least three groups, since the two-group case can be covered by a t-test.

As debates raged in an attempt to come up with a new formula, three camps evolved among the opponents of the Nicene creed.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

After some personal arguments among the three crewmembers, de Spookrijders split up in 2003, after releasing their and final third album Hee ...

He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.

Since German reunification on 3 October 1990, Berlin has been one of the three city states, together with Hamburg and Bremen, among the present 16 states of Germany.

The Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina rotates among three members ( Bosniak, Serb, Croat ), each elected for a rotating 8-month term within their 4-year term as a presidency members.

At three o ' clock, according to Cuthbert, he asked for a box of his to be brought, and distributed among the priests of the monastery " a few treasures " of his: " some pepper, and napkins, and some incense ".

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Swapping among three parties often helps satisfy tastes when trying to get around the rule that money is not allowed.

The island is divided among three countries: Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Panzer forces were dispersed among the three German concentrations without strong emphasis on independent use, being used to create or destroy close pockets of Polish forces and seize operational-depth terrain in support of the largely un-motorized infantry which followed.

The Khmer Republic's leadership was plagued by disunity among its three principal figures: Lon Nol, Sihanouk's cousin Sirik Matak, and National Assembly leader In Tam.

Salary arrears, labor unrest, and unequal treatment of military officers from different ethnic groups had also been among the causes of the three mutinies against the Patassé government in 1996 and 1997.

The way that such church law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these three bodies of churches.

*** The Three Rites are the three ancient ritual texts listed among the classics of Confucianism, a record of social forms and ceremonies of the Western Zhou, and a restoration of the original copy after the burning of Confucian texts in 213 BCE

Many cruisers are " long term " and travel for many years, the most adventurous among them circle the globe over a period of three to ten years.

All three variations were commonly seen among U. S. troops.

Fragments of three deuterocanonical books have been found among the Dead Sea scrolls found at Qumran.

Nevertheless, Domitian appears to have been very popular amongst the soldiers, spending an estimated three years of his reign among the army on campaigns — more than any emperor since Augustus — and raising their pay by one-third.

Dukkha is also listed among the three marks of existence.

Based on realistic-conflict theory and social-identity theory, Rubin and Hewstone have highlighted a distinction among three types of discrimination: