The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.

* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

The old town, Laurenzenvorstadt, government building, cantonal library, state archive and art museum are all listed as heritage sites of national significance.

Often, a borough is a single town with its own local government.

For example, in the U. S. state of Massachusetts an article of incorporation approved by the local state legislature distinguishes a city government from a town.

One characteristic that can be used to distinguish a small city from a large town is organized government.

The most recent town charter, adopted in 1998, lays out the form of government for the Town.

According to Dedham's Charter, the " administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of the town, with the government thereof, shall be vested in a legislative branch, to consist of a representative town meeting.

It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.

* 1982 – February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.

* 1830-The British government changes the status of Gibraltar from The town and garrison of Gibraltar in the Kingdom of Spain to the Crown Colony of Gibraltar.

The need for a new city chambers had been apparent since the 18th century, with the old Tolbooth at Glasgow Cross becoming insufficient for the purposes of civic government in an increasing town with greater political responsibilities.

Held in the care of the Dutch government, the Kröller-Müller Museum was opened in 1938 near the town of Otterlo in the Netherlands.

Harwich is governed by the open town meeting form of government, led by a town administrator and a board of selectmen.

Douglas, the largest town on the Isle of Man is its capital and seat of government, where the Government offices and the parliament chambers ( Tynwald ) are located.

And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.

* In the United States, " municipality " is usually understood as a city, town, village or other local government unit, formed by municipal charter from the state as a municipal corporation.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

The government also set up a " special administrative zone " in Sinuiju, a town near the border with China.

In 2006, the Finnish government pledged 4. 9 million euros to help the Nicaraguan government integrate the ICT systems of 20 town councils.

Every spring the town sponsors the annual Faunsdale Crawfish Festival, serving authentic Southern cooking on the street, with music and dancing.

For example, the Foundation has implemented the town wide Paint Program — the vision of Elena Patterson, a local artist — with the help and support of corporate sponsors and local residents.

In addition, the Oriental Rotary Club sponsors an annual catch-and-release tarpon fishing tournament the last weekend in July ( 2008 was the 16th year ) and, on New Year's Eve, the Oriental dragon makes a run through town twice ( at 8 p. m. for the young ' uns, and at midnight for the adults ).

Every year the town sponsors a Fireman's Parade and Carnival and a fishing rodeo.

The town church, St. Michael's Lutheran Church, sponsors various activities in the town also.

In February 1988 based on this celebration and because no other place in the world regularly sponsors such an event, the town ’ s Chamber of Commerce voted to sponsor Ms Brown ’ s idea of the festival and subsequently declared Anthony Texas and New Mexico to be the Leap Year Capital of the World.

In his 1906 Reminiscences, Carl Schurz recalls the annual " bird shoot " pageant of the Rhenish town of Liblar which was sponsored by the Saint Sebastian Society, a club of sharpshooters and their sponsors to which nearly every adult member of town belonged.

The government sponsors report that 760 European towns jointly organized the first pan-European " In town, without my car!

Every year around Easter, the town sponsors a major festival called Settimana Enologica — or Wine Week — where visitors can enjoy the principal wines produced in the area including the comparatively simple red table wine, Montefalco Rosso, the more complex DOCG red wines Sagrantino, for which the area is famous, and the Montefalco Sagrantino secco.

Thorntons, the confectionery company once based in the town of Belper became major sponsors.

The town also sponsors a music festival that runs for several weeks in the spring of each year, called the Ausseer Jazzfrühling.

The name is usually preceded by the name of the community or organization that sponsors the band, the town or county where they are based, or preceded by the name of a local geographical landmark or regional term.

In a town the size of Blackburn, however, Olympic found it hard to compete for spectators and sponsors with the longer-established and more successful Rovers, and as a result could not pay wages on a par with those offered by that club or by other professional clubs in Lancashire.

* 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

* May 20 – Gay rights – Romer v. Evans: The Supreme Court of the United States rules against a law that prevents any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.

Gay is a town in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States.

The town is located approximately 12 miles west of Hugo, Oklahoma, the county seat of Choctaw County, and approximately 10 miles east of Boswell, OK. Soper also is used to describe various communities in the area which includes Buckhorn, Bluff, Gay, Nelson, and Sugar Creek, most of which were small school districts, many of which still stand today, before they were closed and the students began using the Soper public school system.

Fort Gay is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, along the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers.

There is no evidence as to why the name was changed, there are several prevalent theories: that either the railroad company or post office did not want two Cassvilles on the same route / state ( there is another Cassville, West Virginia ), or that a Civil War nurse named Gay became synonymous with the town.

In 2010, Fort Gay was in the news when a resident of the town had his Xbox Live account suspended for writing " fort gay WV " as his location, as Microsoft has language policies that prohibit references to homosexuality.

Founded in 1958 by Neal Gay as a permanent rodeo ( as opposed to many other rodeos that would move from town to town ), the rodeo struggled in the early years, but grew as the city of Mesquite grew.

Over 100 townspeople ' flew ' from the St. Mary's area of the town centre, over the River Severn to land on the Gay Meadow pitch, emulating Robert Cadman's heroic attempt in 1740.

Fugues is published as an alternative format ( 7 " X 10, 25 ") glossy magazine, similar in size to a comic book, and is distributed as a free publication not only in Montreal's Gay Village, but also all over town and in other cities across Canada.

He lives out of town, which is why Big Gay Al's cartoon pet sanctuary is set out in the hills ".

The town was named after its founder, Joseph E. Gay.

An ordinance had been passed that restricted all saloons in town, except the Lady Gay.