Two to three weeks prior to the charter of the Virginia, Graham had been snooping around the San Luis Rey Mission.

There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.

However, in the 1990s, a local company called CCT Boatphone, which had previously provided radio boatphones to tourists on charter boats, expanded into cellular ( mobile ) telecommunications for land-based users.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

The charter had more than sixty signatories, including the brothers John, Nicholas and Moses of the Brown family, who would later inspire the College's modern name following a gift bestowed by Nicholas Brown, Jr.

That team had started as a charter member of the American Association in 1882.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

At the time of granting of its charter, Eindhoven had approximately 170 houses enclosed by a rampart.

The private sector therefore began to fill the gap and by 1991 three major domestic charter operators had emerged.

Richard of Wallingford, a local landowner, who had presented demands to Richard II on behalf of Wat Tyler in London, brought news of this to St Albans and argued with the abbot over the charter.

A more recent and more positive appraisal by John Morris argues that the charter and its witness list are authentic because it incorporates titles and phraseology that had fallen out of use by 800.

John stopped short of trying to actively enforce this charter on the native Irish kingdoms, but historian David Carpenter suspects that he might have done so, had the baronial conflict in England not intervened.

Despite his promises to the contrary, John appealed to Innocent for help, observing that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1203 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord.

Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.

In 1891 the Portuguese shifted the administration of much of the country to a large private company, under a charter granting sovereign rights for 50 years to the Mozambique Company, which, though it had its headquarters at Beira, was controlled and financed mostly by the British.

The later versions excluded the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority that had been present in the 1215 charter.

Harry Wismer, a businessman, had been interested in sports for much of his life when he was granted a charter franchise in the American Football League.

Like President Clinton, Israel and the Likud party now formally agreed that the objectionable clauses of the charter had been abrogated, in official statements and statements by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Sharon, Defense Minister Mordechai and Trade and Industry Minister Sharansky.

With Paris as his capital, he had the main thoroughfares paved, built a central market, Les Halles, continued the construction begun in 1163 of Notre-Dame de Paris, constructed the Louvre as a fortress and gave a charter to the University of Paris in 1200.

Fueros had an immense importance for those living under them, who were prepared to go to war to defend their rights under the charter.

At the end of 1979, Sudan Airways had entered into a pooling agreement with Britain's Tradewind Airways to furnish charter cargo service between that country and Khartoum under a subsidiary company, Sudan Air Cargo.

Stephen issued a new royal charter, confirming the promises he had made to the church, promising to reverse Henry's policies on the royal forests and to reform any abuses of the royal legal system.

The royal charter of 1136 had promised to review the ownership of all the lands that had been taken by the crown from the church since 1087, but these estates were now typically owned by nobles.

In 1553, King Edward VI granted Totnes a charter allowing a former Benedictine priory building that had been founded in 1088 to be used as Totnes Guildhall and a school.

`` There is not now, nor has there ever been in Emory University's charter or by-laws any requirement that students be admitted or rejected on the basis of race, color or creed.

A charter with extended privileges was drafted in 1657, but appears never to have been enrolled or to have come into effect.

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition remarks that " At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal " and that " the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit.

Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since.

Since 1974, it has been a purely ceremonial style granted by royal charter to districts which may consist of a single town or may include a number of towns or rural areas.

There has been some movement to use Inuit, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, representing a circumpolar population of 150, 000 Inuit and Yupik people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia, in its charter defines Inuit for use within the ICC as including " the Inupiat, Yupik ( Alaska ), Inuit, Inuvialuit ( Canada ), Kalaallit ( Greenland ) and Yupik ( Russia ).

The charter has been criticised for avoiding mentioning Nazi atrocities of Second World War and Germans who were forced to emigrate due to Nazi repressions.

His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the founding scholars " without his privity " ( Isaacson, 1650 ); his connection with the college seems to have been purely notional, however.

Once the proposal has been formalized with a name, description, charter, the Big-8 Management Board will vote on whether to create the group.

Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.

Both Zenadors are called away to the nearest world for trial ( a journey that would take twenty-two years ), the colony's charter is revoked, and all humans are ordered to evacuate posthaste, leaving no sign of ever having been there.

Fairs have been held by royal charter since 1330 and an annual horse fair is still held on the edge of the town.

Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan had long been recognised as heir apparent, and charter evidence shows that Edward ranked behind all Æthelred's sons by his first marriage, but Æthelstan died in June 1014, and Emma now tried to get her own son, the ten year old Edward, recognised as heir.

SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 ( charter member ), and by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design ( AICAD ) since its founding in 1991.

The area has been occupied since the 10th century ( although recently, remains of houses dating back to the 2nd century AD were discovered during a dig near the Oldehove ), and was granted a town charter in 1435.

Its charter had been granted by an Anglican king and seems to have assumed that the Church of England would be its official church.

It has traditionally been interpreted as a Mercian victory, but there is no evidence for Offa's authority over Kent until 785: a charter from 784 mentions only a Kentish king named Ealhmund, which may indicate that the Mercians were in fact defeated at Otford.

De Montfort became a favourite of the king and even issued a charter as ' Earl of Leicester ', despite not having been given the title yet, in 1236.

However, the charter is now believed to have been a 10th or early 11th century forgery.