This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

However, the position was given to William Cleghorn, after Edinburgh ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume because he was seen as an atheist.

In 1638, Bachiler and others successfully petitioned to begin a new plantation at Winnacunnet, to which he gave the name Hampton when the town was incorporated in 1639.

The town of Riverside, Iowa, petitioned Roddenberry and Paramount Pictures in 1985 for permission to " adopt " Kirk as their town's " Future Son ".

In 1791, Prather petitioned Ohio County to incorporate the town of Charlestown, Virginia, naming it after himself.

Miami area residents as well as settlers in the northern part of the county in Parnell petitioned for county government, with each group proposing their town as the county seat.

Immediately some 30 citizens petitioned the police jury to lay out the town on the land, sell lots and make arrangements for the erection of public buildings.

The Brighton Commissioners and the Brighton Vestry successfully petitioned the Government to sell the Pavilion to the town for £ 53, 000 in 1850 under the Brighton Improvement ( Purchase of the Royal Pavilion and Grounds ) Act 1850.

Originally known as Southfield — pronounced ' Suffield ', on May 20, 1674, the committee for the settling of the town petitioned:

In April 1778 the 270 families living in the area petitioned the General Assembly to be incorporated as a town.

Although there were not even any brick buildings in the town yet, in 1896 the town of English, located well back from the Ohio River in inland Crawford County, successfully petitioned to have the county seat moved there.

After the land donation, some 30 citizens petitioned the Police Jury to lay out the town on the new parish land, sell lots and make arrangements for the construction of public buildings, particularly a courthouse.

Then, in 1854, the southern part of Hollis petitioned the state legislature to become a separate town.

Residents of the area were not happy with Greenfield's initial layout and petitioned the General Assembly to have the town replatted.

In 1724 Stephen Barker and others in the western part of that town petitioned the General Court to grant them permission to form a new town above Hawke's Meadow Brook.

The first permanent settlement, however, was not established until 1750, and the settlers officially petitioned Sunderland to become their own town in 1774.

The town peaceably petitioned for separation from the town because of its relatively long distance from the rest of Hatfield, and was officially incorporated in 1771, named by Governor Thomas Hutchinson for Thomas Whately, a Member of Parliament whose letter to Hutchinson would later be involved in the controversy which brought on Hutchinson's dismissal.

In 1999 the mayor and council petitioned the General Court to remove the word " town " from its name and to replace the word town with city.

Due to their " difficulties and inconveniences by reason of their distance from the places of Public Worship in their respective Towns ," local inhabitants petitioned the General Court to be set apart as a separate town.

With the arrival of the railroad, the town grew quickly and petitioned for incorporation as a town ; this wish was granted by the Mississippi Legislature on October 6, 1903.

Led by Isaiah D. Hart, residents wrote a charter for a town government, which was approved by the Florida Legislative Council on February 9, 1832.

The town of Wasco was designated the county seat by the Legislative Assembly although this designation was contested between Wasco and Moro.

Positions in the various town boards and commissions are generally appointed by the Mayor subject to approval by the Legislative Council.

Baskin also holds the dubious distinction of being the town in Louisiana which derives the most revenue from traffic fines and forfeitures, according to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.

The Legislative branch of the government of the Town of Gates is a four-member town council whose members are elected every four years.

The community was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 19, 1880, originally as a town.

On March 1, 1902 the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico approved a law to consolidate certain municipal districts so Peñuelas neighborhoods were attached to the town of Ponce.

It was designated as the Province ’ s Capital by virtue of Philippine Legislative Act No. 2711 approved on March 10, 1917 until June 6, 1955, when Pili, the adjoining town was declared the Provincial Capital by virtue of Republic Act 1336 up to the present time

On 12 August 1842, Melbourne was incorporated as a " town " by Act 6 Victoria No. 7 of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales.

The University of New Mexico was founded on February 28, 1889, with the passage of House Bill No. 186 by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico ; stipulating that " Said institution is hereby located at or near the town of Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo within two miles north of railroad avenue in said town, upon a tract of good high and dry land, of not less than twenty acres suitable for the purposes of such institution ," and that it would be the state university when New Mexico became a state.

Harrison was a member of Geelong's first town council in 1850 and represented Geelong and Geelong West in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1859-60.

On 12 August 1842, Melbourne was incorporated as a " town " by Act 6 Victoria No. 7 of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales.

At territory level, the Electoral district of Katherine covers the town and its suburbs and elects one member to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.

Robson served on the New Westminster town council in the 1860s before being appointed to the British Columbia Legislative Council.

A few months later the petitioners from Smaldeel received a letter from the Secretary of Legislative Council dated 18 September 1906, stating that the case of proclaiming a town will be investigated by a commission of enquiry consisting of Surveyor General, Mr. J. W. H.

James Durand, the local Member of the British Legislative Assembly, was empowered by Hughson and Hamilton to sell property holdings which later became the site of the town.

As he had been instructed, Durand circulated the offers at York during a session of the Legislative Assembly and a new Gore District was established of which the Hamilton town site was a member.

He was the seventh mayor of the town of Calgary, Alberta and spent six years as a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) in British Columbia.

It allowed the masses to challenge the doings of the unelected Governor and Legislative Council, and the elected town councils of Port of Spain and San Fernando.

The name honours William Copley, who at the time the town was proclaimed as a member of the Legislative Council for the Northern District.

Thomas Hubert Uphill ( 1874-1962 ) was a socialist politician in British Columbia, longtime mayor of the town of Fernie and also represented the riding named for the town in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for forty years, most of them as the legislature's sole labour MLA.

The town of Sellwood was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 25, 1889.