When the tree was finally felled the gavel used by the Moderator at Town Meeting was carved out of it.

" Town Meeting is to consist of no less than 270 members, but not more than necessary to achieve an equal number coming from each precinct.

Town Meeting sets its own rules and keeps a journal of proceedings.

All Town officers are required to attend Town Meeting and multiple member bodies must send at least one representative who have all the privileges of a Member except the right to vote.

If 5 % of Town voters petition the Board of Selectmen within 14 days of Town Meeting any action taken may be submitted to voters.

The final result is to be determined by majority vote, but Town Meeting can not be overruled unless 20 % of registered voters participate.

Currently Town Meeting consists of 273 members, or representatives, with each of the seven districts, or precincts, electing 39.

Town Meeting Members can not serve on any other elected board or on the Finance Committee.

The Town Meeting may establish various ad-hoc and standing committees on which any Town Meeting Member or voter may serve.

The Warrant at Town Meeting includes the articles to be voted on.

Each article to be voted on is directed by the Board of Selectmen to an appropriate board or committee to hear and provide the original motion at Town Meeting.

This Chairman of the Chairmen hosts what is officially known as the District Chairmen's Warrant Review Meeting but is much more commonly referred to as Mini Town Meeting.

The " Mini " is generally one week before the actual Town Meeting.

The purpose of the Mini is to air out several of the contentious issues before bringing them to the floor of Town Meeting.

" In the role as clerk of town meeting he notifies the public and members of the Town Meeting and keeps a verbatim record of proceedings.

At the first Town Meeting following the annual town election he is to appoint, subject to Town Meeting's confirmation, a Deputy Moderator from the elected Members.

There was also a national current events forum called America's Town Meeting of the Air which broadcast once a week starting in 1935.

Village life fostered local democracy, best exemplified by the Open Town Meeting form of government which still exists today in parts of New England.

These sources include, among others, the Bydale Foundation, Careth Foundation, Carolyn Foundation, Changing Horizons Charitable Trust, CS Fund, Deer Creek Foundation, Educational Foundation of America, Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Grodzins Fund, Jenifer Altman Foundation, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Rockwood Fund, Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Stern Family Fund, Town Creek Foundation, and the Turner Foundation.

The New England Town Meeting: Democracy In Action.

* Bryan, Frank M., Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How it Works, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

* Zimmerman, Joseph F. " The New England Town Meeting: Democracy in Action " Praeger Publishers, 1999.

This came to a head when he spoke at a heavily attended Citizens for Democracy meeting at the Sydney Town Hall with other controversial speakers including Frank Hardy, Patrick White and Faith Bandler.

* Future of Democracy in India: Being the Full Text of a Speech Delivered at a Public Meeting Held at the Town Hall, Lucknow, on October 6, 1945.

In 1974 St Albans City Council, St Albans Rural District Council and Harpenden Town Council were merged to form St Albans District Council ( part of a much wider local government reorganisation ).

The Town contracts with Rural Metro for staffing of its fire department.

* " Bank takes Environmental Step into Rural Town " New York Times ( 7 July 2008 )

The area today is composed of three distinct communities: The Town of The Pas, the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and the Rural Municipality of Kelsey.

* Lake Los Angeles Rural Town Council

Only one Wheatfield Fire company ( Shawnee ) runs an ambulance, the other Town Fire Companies contract with either Tri-Community Ambulance Service Inc., Twin City Ambulance, or Rural / Metro Medical Services of Western New York.

Town " ( Governor's Rural Economic Achievement Trophy ).

Other schools that serve the citizens of Tobaccoville are Rural Hall Elementary, East Bend Elementary, Forbush High School, West Stokes High School, South Stokes High School, Woodland Christian School, Old Town Elementary School, King Elementary, and Forsyth Country Day School in Lewisville.

Viesīte Town and Rural territory Council consists of 9 deputies.

* Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin

* The sociological study, Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power and Religion in a Rural Community by A. J.

The Town of Biggar is located within the Rural Municipality of Biggar # 347.

It was re-merged in the mid-1890s as the Mid Devon Gazette, but then split into Town and Rural editions before splitting three ways again.

In 1983, the building was purchased by the Town and Rural Municipality of Birtle.

It was formed in 1994 from the merger of parts of the Shire of Euroa, Shire of Goulburn, Shire of Violet Town, Shire of McIvor and Rural City of Seymour.

Chester-le-Street was one of eight non-metropolitan districts into which County Durham was divided, and was formed form the areas of the abolished urban district of Chester-le-Street along with the bulk of Chester-le-Street Rural District, namely the parishes of Bournmoor, Birtley ( reduced in size ), Edmondsley, Great Lumley, Lambton, Little Lumley, North Lodge ( created from the part of Harraton outside Washington New Town ), Ouston, Pelton, Plawsworth, Sacriston, South Biddick ( reduced in size ), Urpeth and Waldridge.

The Town ward would elect 3 councillors while the Rural, Industrial, Naval Base and Kwinana Beach wards would each elect one councillor.

It has six Councils, which include Bukoba Town, Bukoba Rural, Karagwe, Muleba, Biharamulo and Ngara.

* Billy Colfer, Wexford: A Town and its Landscape ( Irish Rural Landscape Series ), Cork, Cork University Press, 2008.

Representing the interests of community and parish: Community Council for Berkshire, Committee for Rural Hampshire, the Friends of Pang, Kennet and Lambourn Valleys and Hungerford Town Council

degree in 1939 with the thesis " Occupational Stratification Among Rural and Small Town Negroes before the Civil War and Today.

The open air museum is divided into three primary sections, the Rural Collection, Historic Town, and the Residential Area.

Along the road you will find the Ministry of Health, Town and Rural Planning Department and Jalan Cenderasari, which leads to the various parks in Kuala Lumpur like the Bird Park, Lake Gardens and Butterfly Park.

* From the East Devon district: Broadclyst, Budleigh, Clyst Valley, Exmouth Brixington, Exmouth Halsdon, Exmouth Littleham, Exmouth Town, Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Ottery St Mary Rural, Ottery St Mary Town, Colaton Raleigh, Sidmouth Rural, Sidmouth Sidford, Sidmouth Town, Whimple, Woodbury and Lympstone ;