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The town would be incorporated in 1749 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it after Hampstead, England, the residence of William Pitt, a close friend.
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The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.
I don't know what we would have done if Pat O'Dwyer hadn't come to town.
The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.
Perhaps they had a car or truck and would drive him into town.
Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.
Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.
a trillion peas would fill all the houses in a town of about ten thousand people ; ;
His diatribe falls on the ears of many citizens of the town, who turned to religion in droves but would not have done so under normal circumstances.
As a spa city, Aachen could use the title Bad Aachen, but as the town then would not appear in first place on alphabetically ordered lists, it declined to do so.
The house was restored to the U. S. in 1818, though the fur trade would remain under British control until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840s.
In his town plan Aalto proposed a line of separate marble-clad buildings fronting the bay which would house various cultural institutions, including a concert hall, opera, museum of architecture and headquarters for the Finnish Academy.
The Pals battalions were a peculiarity of the 1914-18 war: Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, believed that it would help recruitment if friends and work-mates from the same town were able to join up and fight together.
Capone's mayoral candidate won by a huge margin and weeks later announced that he would run Capone out of town.
The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.
William IV, Count of Nevers had promised the Christian bishops of Bethlehem that if Bethlehem should fall under Muslim control, he would welcome them in the small town of Clamecy in present-day Burgundy, France.
Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.
While in the late Baroque a major composer would have the entire musical resources of a town to draw on, the forces available at a hunting lodge were smaller and more fixed in their level of ability.
Every city expansion would imply a new circle ( canals together with town walls ).
On February 9, 1734, the town was incorporated as Rumford, from which Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford would take his title.
However, doing this for a town that only has two black males in this age group would be a breach of privacy because either of those persons, knowing his own income and the reported average, could determine the other man's income.
Curry had decided for himself that Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a plot open in the center of town for a future capitol building.
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This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.
If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??
If in a town of 2,000 private homes, half of them have shelters, the need for the community shelters will be reduced to that extent.
Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.
The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.
It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.
This can usually be found out at the nearest town hall.
A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum, their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces, the gaps between rulers and subjects, town and country, will widen ; ;
in the double sentence the smaller the town, the friendlier the people it will generally be on the subjects the town and the people.
If you plan to sell fresh vegetables or whole milk, for example, you should be close to a town or city.
His Highness had decided only two hours ago to go out of town, and he was eager to be off.
We'll both be blowing town tomorrow so we won't be moving in on you ''.
A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.
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The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.
* Connecticut, as an incorporated municipality within, or consolidated with, a town
Only one incorporated town is chartered in Pennsylvania.
The town was an ancient borough, incorporated by Edward III, known formally as Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, and consisting of the three parishes of St Petrox, St Saviour and Townstall, and incorporating the hamlets of Ford, Old Mill and Norton.
The town was laid out in 1850 and named for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia ; it was formally incorporated in 1870.
Tension between new settlers and earlier inhabitants led to political divisions in the new town, which was incorporated in 1873.
The continental custom of guilds of merchants arrived after the Norman Conquest, with incorporated societies of merchants in each town or city holding exclusive rights of doing business there.
The town was officially incorporated in 1694, and originally included the lands of the current town of Brewster.
The town was named for Lt. Col. Robert Monckton, but a clerical error at the time the town was incorporated resulted in the misspelling of the community's name, which has been perpetuated to the present day.
* 1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
The sandstone building was constructed between 1911 – 1914, when it replaced the old town hall of Schöneberg, at that time an independent city () not yet incorporated into Greater Berlin, which took place in 1920.
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.
In many states of the US, the term town does not have any specific meaning ; it is simply an informal term applied to populated places ( both incorporated and unincorporated municipalities ).
Shortly afterwards, the town was once again incorporated into the Soviet Union as the capital of the Lithuanian SSR.
Previously, in town and city, residential space was adjacent to or incorporated into the work site, virtually occupying the same geographical space.
The borough of Wernigerode is divided into the town itself, including the villages of Hasserode and Nöschenrode incorporated before 1994 and five villages with their own parish councils that were integrated in 1994: Benzingerode, Minsleben, Reddeber, Schierke and Silstedt.
Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.
First of all in 1860 the town schools, hitherto open to " settlers " only on paying high fees, were made accessible to all, next in 1875 ten years ' residence ipso facto conferred the right of burghership, while in 1893 the eleven outlying districts were incorporated with the town proper
* April 16 – The town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, is incorporated.
* Milton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
* Sudbury, Ontario, Canada is incorporated as a town.
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