Boards Sentence Examples

I put up boards on all the windows.

It was constructed of narrow boards and chewed by the cutting crampons of hundreds of climbers.

Martha tried the boards for the first time and was surprisingly agile.

The United Presbyterian Church has a board of foreign missions (reorganized in 1859) with missions in Egypt (1853), now a synod with four presbyteries (in 1909, 71 congregations, 70 ministers and 10,341 members), in the Punjab (1854), now a synod with four presbyteries (in 1 909, 35 congregations, 51 ministers and 17,321 members), and in the Sudan (1901); and boards of home missions (reorganized, 1859), church extension (1859), publication (1859), education (1859), ministerial relief (1862), and missions to the freedmen (1863).

Philadelphia is the home of the boards of publication and of Sunday schools of the Northern Church; and in Allegheny (Pittsburg) are the principal theological seminary of the United Presbyterian body and its publishing house.

In the national capital and territories it is supervised by a national council of education with the assistance of local school boards; in the 14 provinces it is under provincial control.

Before the end of 1906 fifty-two separate trades in Victoria had obtained special boards, by whose determinations their operations were controlled.

Unlike the latter, they reproduced the institution of district conciliation boards in addition to the arbitration court; but these boards were a failure here as they were in New Zealand, and after 1903 they fell into disuse.

The administrative officers of the state are a governor, a lieutenantgovernor, a secretary of state, a state treasurer, and an auditor of accounts, elected by popular vote, and an inspector of finance, a commissioner of taxes, a superintendent of education, a fish and game commissioner, three railroad commissioners, and various boards and commissions, of whom some are elected by the General Assembly and some are appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.

The charitable and penal institutions of the state are controlled by separate boards of directors, but all are subject to the general supervision of a board of visitors composed of the governor, lieutenant-governor and speaker of the House of Representatives, and a woman appointed by the governor.

The most durable of fences are those formed of small oaks, split lengthwise by the wedge into thin boards.

The proceeds of the sale of the suppressed convents and monasteries were partly converted into pensions for monks and nuns, and partly allotted to the municipal charity boards which had undertaken the educational and charitable functions formerly exercised by the religious orders.

There is also a standing court of appeal, known as Unity's Elders' Conference, and consisting of the Mission Board and four provincial boards.

In the eastern and western portions of this city are situated the residences of the highest dignitaries of the empire; while beyond its confines on the south stand the offices of the six of f icial boards which direct the affairs of the eighteen provinces.

The charitable institutions of the state are supervised by separate boards of trustees appointed by the governor.

Subordinate to them are the township boards of trustees, composed of a clerk, and two justices of the peace.

Winnowing was done by women, who tossed the grain into the air with small wooden boards, the chaff being blown away by the winds.

This habit can be used as a means of killing them, by placing boards or sacks covered with tar below the trees, which are then gently shaken.

Light portable boats are sometimes made of very thin boards of fir, sewn together with cord thus manufactured from the roots of the tree.

The Mandaean places of worship, being designed only for the priests and their assistants (the worshippers remaining in the forecourt), are excessively small, and very simply furnished; two windows, a door that opens towards the south so that those who enter have their faces turned towards the pole star, a few boards in the corner, and a gabled roof complete the whole structure; there is neither altar nor decoration of any kind.

Since 18 9 4 women who possess the usual qualifications required of men may vote for and be voted for as members of boards of education.

The governor's control over appointments was strengthened by the constitution of 1851 and by the subsequent creation of statutory offices, boards and commissions, but the right of veto was not given to him until the adoption of the constitutional amendments of 1903.

Of the two chief cities, Cleveland (under a special act providing for the government of Columbus and Toledo, also) in1892-1902was governed under the federal plan, which centralized power in the hands of the mayor; in Cincinnati there was an almost hopeless diffusion of responsibility among the council and various executive boards.

In order to comply with the court's interpretation of the constitution, municipalities were divided into only two classes, cities and villages, the former having a population of five thousand or more; the chief officials in both cities and villages were the mayor, council, treasurer and numerous boards of commissions.

There are state, county and municipal boards of equalization.

Large sums were voted loosely, and expended by executive boards without any budgetary control.

Independence is further curtailed by other state boards semi-independent of the city - the police commission of three members from 1885 to 1906, and in 1906 a single police commissioner, appointed by the governor, a licensing board of three members, appointed by the governor; the transit commission, &c. There are, further, county offices (Suffolk county comprises only Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop), generally independent of the city, though the latter pays practically all the bills.

To avoid the creation of induced currents, the coil frames and the base boards are constructed of slate.

He controls the expenditure of public money for school purposes, the examination and the appointment of teachers, whose nominations by the municipal school boards are referred to the commissioner.

Sanitary institutes are held by the state board at various towns each year for the instruction of the public. Boards of appraisers and equalization oversee the administration of the tax system; the cost of collection, owing to the fee system for payment of collectors, was higher than in any other state of the Union until 1907, when the fees were greatly reduced.

From 1852 to 1891 the city was governed under general laws of the state which entrusted the more important powers to several administrative boards.

Women (since 1898) may vote for school officers and members of library boards, and are eligible for election to any office pertaining to the management of schools or libraries.

In 1586 sugar is mentioned as an import, and in 1646 deal boards were brought here from Hamburg.

Another highly useful palm is the carnauba or carnahuba (Copernicia cerifera) which supplies fruit, medullary meal, food for cattle, boards and timber, fibre, wax and medicine.

Limited judicial powers are exercised by chiefs of police, and by certain department commissions, or boards, of an executive character.

Public opinion as to the " hospital " system of board and education, however, underwent a revolutionary change after the Education Act of 1872 introduced school boards, and the Merchant Company - acting as governors for most of the institutions - determined to board out the children on the foundation with families in the town, and convert the buildings into adequately equipped primary and secondary day-schools.

The gas and electric lighting is in the hands of private firms. The administration of the park, the city improvements and the water and sewerage departments have been handed over to boards and trusts.

The chief towns - Durban; Maritzburg, Ladysmith, Newcastle and Dundee - are governed by municipal corporations and minor towns by local boards.

Among the industries of Belfast are trade with the surrounding country, the manufacture of shoes, leather boards, axes, and sashes, doors and blinds, and the building and repairing of boats.

The municipal boards possess very ' The number of electors at the first registration (1907) was 105,368.

School boards and district committees are formed, but their functions are almost entirely advisory.

City, the vestries and district boards, and the previously established local board of Woolwich (q.v.).

The Metropolitan Board of Works was also given certain powers of supervision over the vestries and district boards, and superseded the commissioners of sewers as authority for main drainage.

The vestries and district boards became the authorities for local drainage, paving, lighting, repairing and maintaining streets, and for the removal of nuisances, &c.

Further, every precept sent by an authority in London for the purpose of obtaining money (these authorities include the London County Council, the receiver of the Metropolitan Police, the Central Unemployed Body and the Boards of Guardians) which has ultimately to be raised out of a rate within a borough is sent direct to the council of the borough instead of filtering through other authorities before reaching the overseers.

Under the Local Government Act 1888, the London County Council makes grants to boards of guardians, sanitary authorities and overseers in London in respect of certain services.

Thenceforth everyone who built a house was strictly charged not to cover it with reeds, rushes, stubble or straw, but only with tiles, shingle boards or lead.

Formerly under the Turnpike Acts many of the more important highways were placed under the management of boards of commissioners or trustees.

Again a new constitution was decreed by which the gonfaloniere and half the priori were to be chosen from the anti maggiori and the other half from the minori; on several other boards the former were to be in the majority, and the three new gilds were abolished.

The power of pardon is also vested in the executive authority of the different states, with or without the concurrence of the legislative authority, although in some states there are boards of pardon of which the governor is a member ex officio.

The other administrative officers are a secretary of state, an attorney-general, an auditor, a treasurer, a commissioner of public schools, a railroad commissioner, and a factory inspector, and various boards and commissions, such as the board of education, the board of agriculture, the board of health, and the commissioners of inland fisheries, commissioners of harbours and commissioners of pilots.

The town (or township) is the unit of local government, the county being recognized only for judicial purposes and to a certain extent in the appointment by central administrative boards.

Curiously enough, after his death Becket was the one of all his plays which enjoyed a great success on the boards.

The architect of private dwellings attached more importance to satin-surfaced boards and careful joinery than to any appearance of strength or solidity.

The parent chamber and the ambulatory were ceiled, sometimes with interlacing strips of bark or broad laths, so as to produce a plaited effect sometimes with plain boards.

A rectangular trough of boards, whose dimensions depend chiefly on the size of the planks available, is set up on the higher part of the ground at one side of the claim to be worked, upon trestles or piers of rough stone-work, at such an inclination that the stream may carry off all but the largest stones, which are kept back by a grating of boards about 2 in.

In 1838 he took a leading part in the Church education movement, by which diocesan boards were established throughout the country; and he wrote an open letter to his bishop in criticism of the recent appointment of the ecclesiastical commission.

On the Dutch side much damage had to be repaired, and their complicated administration, by five independent admiralty boards, rendered rapid work impossible.

In this the filling material, preferably sand, is sent down from the surface through a vertical steel pipe mixed with sufficient water to allow it to flow freely through distributing pipes in the levels commanding the excavations to be filled; these are closed at the bottom by screens of boards sufficiently close to retain the packing material while allowing the water to pass by the lower level to the pumping-engine which returns it to the surface.

The ventilation of ends is effected by means of brattices or temporary partitions of thin boards placed midway in the drift, and extending to within a few feet of the face.

There is comparatively little in the political institutions of Iowa dissimilar to those of other states of the Union; they show in recent years a tendency toward greater centralization - in boards, however, rather than in individual officers.

The central executive and administrative authority is vested in a governor, a lieutenant-governor, an executive council, several boards and a few other officers.

Members of boards of regents or trustees of state institutions are for the most part elected by the General Assembly; railway commissioners are elected by the state electors; while in the case of the few appointments left for the governor, the recommendation or approval of the executive council, a branch of the legislature, or of some board, is usually required.

He, however, is himself a member of the executive council as well as of some important boards or commissions, and it is in such capacity that he often has the greatest opportunity to exert power and influence.

Among other state boards the more important are the board of railroad commissioners, the board of control of state institutions, the board of health, and the board of educational examiners.

The district court has general, original and exclusive jurisdiction in all matters civil, criminal and probate not expressly conferred on an inferior court, and may hear appeals from inferior courts, boards or officers.

Each county has its own administrative boards and officers; and there are two justices of the peace and two constables for every township. The board of supervisors, consisting of not more than seven members, elected for a term of three years, has the care of county property and the management of county business, including highways and bridges; it fixes the rate of county taxes within prescribed limits, and levies the taxes for state and county purposes.

Under the present system, therefore, there is a biennial election (in even-numbered years) of a governor, a lieutenant-governor, a secretary of state, a state comptroller, a state treasurer, an attorney-general and a state engineer and surveyor; and the governor appoints, subject to the approval of the Senate, a superintendent of public works, a superintendent of state prisons, a superintendent of insurance, a superintendent of banks, a commissioner of excise, a commissioner of agriculture, a forest, fish and game commissioner, a commissioner of health, a commissioner of labour, a state architect, a state historian, a state librarian, two public service commissions, a civil service commission, a board of charities, a commission of prisons, a commission in lunacy, three tax commissioners and several other boards and commissions.

Local administration is vested in local elective bodies, such as municipal councils, county councils, road boards, harbour boards, charitable aid boards, and others, with power to levy rates.

All primary and some secondary public schools are controlled by provincial education boards elected by school committees of the parents of pupils.

Meanwhile the keystone of the regulative system had been laid by the passing of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, under which disputes between employers and unions of workers are compulsorily settled by state tribunals; strikes and lock-outs are virtually prohibited in the case of organized work-people, and the conditions of employment in industries may be, and in many cases are, regulated by public boards and courts.

When we are walking past a fence formed by equally-spaced vertical rails or overlapping boards, we may often note that each footstep is followed by a musical ring.

The platform itself was usually composed of rough layers of unbarked stems, but occasionally it was formed of boards split from larger stems. When the mud was too soft to afford foothold for the piles they were mortised into a framework of tree trunks placed horizontally on the bottom of the lake.

At Niederwil the platform was formed of split boards, many of which were 2 ft.

The size of each dwelling is in some cases marked by boards resting edgeways on the platform, like the skirting boards over the flooring of the rooms in a modern house.

In the manufacturing towns of France, there are also boards of umpires (Conseils de Prud'hommes) to deal with trade disputes between masters and workmen belonging to certain specified trades.

In Portugal, provision has been made for the creation in important industrial centres, on the application of the administrative corporations, of boards of conciliation (decrees of the 14th of August 1889, and the 18th of May 1893).

Nell Gwyn, who sold oranges in the precincts of Drury Lane Theatre, passed, at the age of fifteen, to the boards, through the influence of the actor Charles Hart and of Robert Duncan or Dungan, an officer of the guards who had interest with the management.

To meet this situation Germany set up central boards (Zentralen), and Austria followed suit, partly at the request of the German Government, which wished to avoid the competition of Austrian agents.

In Austria the Government did not subscribe any of the capital, but the central boards were subjected to State supervision and their power of fixing prices was in many ways limited.

These boards were now given the monopoly of the right to import certain wares (sometimes private buyers were allowed to purchase, but only on condition of selling the goods imported to the board); they were also entrusted with the reception of the instalments of raw materials already mentioned as released from bond in Germany.

The activity of the central boards as purchasers in neutral countries did not last long; it came quickly to an end in 1915, especially after Italy's entry into the war.

In this way there arose central boards for wool, cotton, oil and fat, hides and leather, and various metals - to name only the more important materials.

The control exercised by these boards was limited in scope and touched only comparatively narrow classes.

These boards also undertook other functions, such as introducing new methods of manufacture and supplying the workers in the munition factories with beer.

The system of regulation by central boards was severely .criticised for incompetence and even for corruption, and sometimes justly; but on the whole it was amply justified by the urgent necessities of the times and by its results.

There are the usual administrative boards whose members are appointed by the mayor, some of them with the approval of the board of aldermen, though the board of school directors is elected by direct popular vote.

Two boards of civil service commissioners, one for fire and police departments and one for all other departments, have supervision over the city's civil service.

In those counties that have not adopted a township organization county affairs are administered by a board of county commissioners; where the township organization has been adopted the county government is administered by the chairmen of the several township boards.

There are boards of equalization and review for the state, counties and municipalities.

He, however, still appoints, subject to the confirmation of the senate, the secretary of state, the superintendent of public education, the commissioner of the land office, the adjutantgeneral, justices of the peace, notaries public, the members of numerous administrative boards, and other administrative officers..

In both the state and the county boards at least one-third of the members appointed by the governor are not to be of the dominant political party and only one-third of the members are to be appointed every two years.

These certificates must be kept on file and lists of children employed must be posted by employers; labour inspectors receive monthly lists from local school boards of children receiving certificates; and children under 16 are not to work more than 10 hours a day or 60 hours a week, or between 7 p.m.

The charitable and penal institutions are managed by separate boards of trustees appointed by the governor.

Bullitt and John Feland, The General Statutes of Kentucky (Frankfort and Louisville, 1877, revised editions, 1881, 1887); and the Annual Reports of state officers and boards.

This building provides offices for the Local Government Board, Boards of Trade and of Public Works and other bodies.

Besides the usual duties of local government, and the connexion with the port and docks boards already explained, there should be noticed the connexion of the corporation with such bodies as those controlling the city technical schools, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the gallery of modern art.

The police that guard his house, the local boards which care for the poor, control highways, provide water, all derive their powers from the state.

He has also the almost mechanical function of representing the state for various formal purposes, such as demanding from other states the extradition of offenders, the issuing of writs for the election of members of the legislature and of members of the Federal House of Representatives, and the receiving of reports from various state officials or boards.

He is usually president of the state senate, is sometimes a inember of some administrative boards, and steps into the governors place should it become vacant.

As a rule, one finds (I) a mayor, elected directly by the voters within the city, who is the head of the administration; (2) adminis- trative officers or boards, some directly elected by the city voters, others nominated by the mayor or chosen by the council; (3) a council or assembly, consisting sometimes of two, but more frequently of one chamber, elected directly by the city voters; and (4) judges, usually elected by the city voters, but sometimes appointed by the state.

The practical work of municipal administration is carried on by a number of departments, some under single heads, and some under boards or commissions.

In some cities the mayor has received an absolute power of appointment; the departments, especially the boards of health, have large ordinance-making powers; statutes passed by the state legislature determine (excepting the states where cities can make their own charters) the principal lines of municipal policy, and the real control over appropriations and taxes is occasionally found vested in a board of estimate, consisting of the mayor, comptroller (the chief financial officer), and a few other administrative officials.

The other provinces have boards of education, and superintendents who act under the direction of the provincial legislatures.

There are seven directorias, or boards, under the prefect, each one assigned to a special field of work, chief among which are education, health and public assistance, public works and transportation, and finance.

This fringe of silk is placed by the attendant between two hinged boards, and whilst held firmly in these boards (called book-boards) is pulled off the machine, and is called a " strip "; the part which has been hooked round the teeth is called the " face," and the other portion the " tail."

The flat dressing frame is a box or frame holding a certain number of book-boards from the filling engine, which boards when full of silk are screwed tightly together in the frame.

In a circular frame the silk is clamped between boards, and these are fixed on a large drum.

Originally the Runic alphabet seems to have been used for writing on wooden boards, though none of these have survived.

The principal achievements of the long session of 1902 (which extended to the autumn) were the passing of the Education Act, - entirely reorganizing the system of primary education, abolishing the school boards and making the county councils the local authority; new rules of procedure; and the creation of the Metropolitan Water Board; and on all these questions, and particularly the two first, Mr Balfour's powers as a debater were brilliantly exhibited.

There are also many statutory administrative officials and boards, such as the adjutant-general, insurance commissioner, board of health, board of agriculture, board of public grounds and buildings, commissioners of fisheries, and factory and mining inspectors.

The city council has 16 members, three elected at large and the others by wards, and there are boards of public service, public safety, public health and education.

These boards, however, were not to supersede the societies, but to supplement their work, by collecting information, fostering interest, registering results and acting as referees when required.

The older American societies, especially the American Board (Congregational), the Presbyterian Boards, the Methodist Episcopal Church Society, the Baptist Missionary Union, and the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, have much extended their work.

He was also associated with Antonio Perez as one of the secretaries who acted as the agents of the king in all dealings with the various governing boards which formed the Spanish administration.

The roads are divided into national or royal roads, placed directly under the control of the waterstaat and sup- 'ported by the state; provincial roads, under the direct control of the states of the provinces, and almost all supported by the provincial treasuries; communal and polder roads, maintained by the communal authorities and the polder boards; and finally, private roads.

The municipal government of the city, and also of South Brisbane, is in the hands of a mayor and ten aldermen; the suburbs are controlled by shire councils and divisional boards.

The Bavarian system embraces 4642 m., and is controlled and managed, apart from the general direction in Munich, by ten traffic boards, in Augsburg, Bamberg, Ingolstadt, Kempten, Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Weiden and Wurzburg.

The 61 1,188 ecclesiastical affairs of the separate provinces 62 331 are directed by consistorial boards.

The apparatus consisted of two small boards, with glass rollers between them, the whole fastened together by indiarubber bands in such a manner that the upper board could slide under lateral pressure to a limited extent over the lower one.

In the second category of restrictions, namely, those dependent on the London Convention, were the various commissions or boards known as Mixed Administrations and having relations of a quasi-independent character with the ministry of finance.

Of these boards by far the most important was the Caisse.

Each of the three boards last named consisted of an Englishman, a Frenchman and an Egyptian.

The schools are under the immediate control of school boards appointed by the parish councils, but of which the incumbent of the parish is ex-officio member; superior control is exercised by the Amtmand, the rural dean, and the bishop, under the Minister for church and education.

The idea of this originated with Bishop Montgomery, secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and was endorsed by a resolution of the United Boards of Mission in 1903.

The new town on the right bank is therefore a centre of the timber export trade, this place being the principal port in Norway for the export of pit-props, planed boards, and other varieties of timber.

The Education Act of 1872 abolished the old management of the parish schools and provided for the creation of districts (burgh, parish or group of parishes) under the control of school boards, of which there are 972 in Scotland, elected every three years by the ratepayers, male and female.

By the act of 1872 their management was transferred to the school boards, and they may be conveniently classified into higher-class public schools, such as the old grammar schools and the liberally endowed schools of the Merchant Company in Edinburgh, and higher grade schools, with a few years' preparatory course for the universities, while some of the ordinary schools have earned the grant for higher education.

The Department established in each county a body known as the secondary education committee, chosen by the county council and the chairmen of the school boards, which is charged with the expenditure of its share of the grant.

In 1845 parochial boards were created for relief of the poor, their powers being afterwards extended to deal with the statutes concerning burial-grounds, the registration of births, deaths and marriages, vaccination, public health, public libraries and other matters.

In 1872 school boards were set up throughout the country; county councils followed in 1889 and parish councils in 1894.

The act of 1894, as we have seen, not only established the Local Government Board, consisting of the secretary for Scotland, the solicitor-general, the under-secretary and three appointed members - a vice-president, a lawyer and a medical officer of public health - but also replaced the parochial boards by parish councils, empowered to deal among other things with poor relief, lunacy, vaccination, libraries, baths, recreation grounds, disused churchyards, rights of way, parochial endowments, and the formation of special lighting and scavenging districts.

Economic conditions have also led to an increase of administrative boards.

Boards of Revision and Boards of Supervision then equalize the assessments in the counties and townships, while a State Board of Equalization seeks to equalize the total valuation of the various counties.

The usual method is to saw a log into planks or boards by n g P y of Timber.

It may be obtained in wide boards, and thus is fitted for use in large panels.

The examinations in music and the final examinations in law and medicine are carried on [1910] both for " internal " and " external " students by " external " examiners only, who are, however, appointed on the recommendation of boards of studies consisting mainly of London teachers.

But the system at present in force is based upon legislation by Lord Ripon in 1882, providing for the establishment of municipal committees and local boards, whose members should be chosen by election with a preponderance of non-official members.

The large towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras have municipalities of this character, and there are large numbers of municipal committees and local boards all over the country.

Hunt, " Legal Status of California, 1846-1849 "; Reports of the various officers, departments and administrative boards of the state government (Sacramento), and also the Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, which contains, especially in the earlier decades of the state's history, many of these state official reports along with valuable legislative reports of varied character.

The governor, with the concurrence of the Senate, appoints the attorney-general, the state engineer and the members of several boards and commissions.

The administration of the common school system is vested in the state superintendent of public instruction, county superintendents and district boards.

A commissioner of taxation who is appointed by the governor with the concurrence of the Senate for a term of four years exercises a general supervision over all tax officers and the boards of equalization.

Congress and the commissioners legislate for the District; the president, the commissioners and the supreme court of the District appoint the administrative officers and boards; and the president appoints the judges of the District courts, viz.

The members of the special boards under the chairmanship of the commissioner constitute a general board for all the hospitals, and the superintendent of each hospital is appointed by the general board.

The public free school system is administered by a state board of education, a superintendent of public instruction, division superintendents, and district and county school boards.

All education above that level is in the hands of the educational department and school boards elected in each parish, each rural parish being bound (since 1898) to be divided into a proper number of school districts and to have a school in each of them, the state contributing to these expenses Boo marks a year for each male and 600 marks for each female teacher, or 25% of the total cost in urban communes.

In incorporated cities and towns these functions are discharged by local boards of education.

By a law of 1895 separate boards of education for Moslem and Greek Christian schools were established, and in each district there are separate committees, presided over by the commissioner.

They necessitated a great deal of labour, because each feed required a separate layer-on and taker-off besides the superintending printer, and other hands to carry away the sheets as fast as they accumulated at the different taking-off boards.

Threeand four-reel machines have also been constructed on the same principle, but the more usual arrangement of the four-reel press is to place two reels at either end, with the folders and delivery boards in the centre.

They then descend into the two different folders, where they are folded and cut - the copies being discharged on to the delivery boards situated at the two sides of the left-hand portion of the machine, and each quire is counted or told off by being jogged forward.

The Southern Baptist Convention, with its Home and Foreign Missionary Boards, and (later) its Sunday-school Board, was formed in 1845.

Since then Northern and Southern Baptists, though in perfect fellowship with each other, have found it best to carry on their home and foreign missionary work through separate boards and to have separate annual meetings.

The administration of the law devolves upon local forest conservancy boards.

This charter is peculiar in that it gives to the city council the power to elect various administrative boards - of police, finance, &c. - from which the legislative council of most cities is separated.

In that year the Cape legislature provided for the constitution of irrigation boards.

They were divided into six boards, two of which were abolished by Augustus.

Each county has a county school commissioner, elected for a term of four years, who exercises a general supervision over the schools within his jurisdiction, and a board of examiners, consisting of three members (including the commissioner) and appointed by the several boards of county supervisors, from whom teachers receive certificates.

Finally, at the head of all the public elementary and secondary schools of the state is the state superintendent of public instruction, elected for a term of two years; he is ex officio a member and secretary of the state board of education, and a member, with the right to speak but not to vote, of all other boards having control of public instruction in any state institution.

He derived considerable importance from the fact that he was the Quebec representative on the boards of large Canadian financial institutions.

Further acts followed in the same direction, leading to the gradual extinction, by due compensation of the persons interested, of the old system, the maintenance of the roads being vested in " turnpike trusts and highway boards," empowered to levy local rates.

In rural districts the functions of these boards are, under the Local Government Act of 1894, performed by the district councils, and in other places their constitution is similar to that of the urban and district councils (see PooR LAW).

In 1782 Gilbert's Act introduced the grouping of parishes for poor law purposes, and boards of guardians appointed by the justices of the peace.

Reform began with the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, grouping the parishes into Unions, making the boards of guardians mainly elective, and creating a central poor law board in London.

Meanwhile, the school boards resulting from the Education Act of 1870 brought local government also into the educational system; and the Public Health Act of 1875 put further duties on the local authorities.

The Metropolis Management Act of 1855 established (outside the city) two classes of parishes - the first class with vestries of their own, the second class grouped under district boards elected by the component vestries; and the Metropolitan Board of Works (abolished in 1888), elected by the vestries and the district boards, was made the central authority.

In 1867 the Metropolitan Asylums Board took over its work from the metropolitan boards of guardians.

Election petitions against county councillors and members of other local bodies (borough councillors, urban and rural district councillors, members of school boards and boards of guardians) are classed together as municipal election petitions, and are heard in the same way, by a commissioner who must be a barrister of not less than fifteen years' standing.

That act abolished the old school boards and school attendance committees, and substituted a single authority for all kinds of schools and for all kinds of education.

It provided for the formation of local boards in boroughs and populous places, such places outside boroughs being termed local government districts.

Urban districts include boroughs and places which were formerly under the jurisdiction of local boards or improvement commissioners.

There were, indeed, highway boards and burial boards which had powers for special purposes, but district authority in the sense in which it is now understood there was none.

It will be seen that the scheme, as at present existing, has for its object the simplification of local government by the abolition of unnecessary independent authorities, and that this has been carried out almost completely, the principal exception being that in some cases burial boards still exist which have not been superseded either by urban district councils or by parish councils or parish meetings.

The chief exports to foreign countries are textile fabrics, Indian corn, meat, dairy products, apples, paraffin, boards and shooks; the chief imports from foreign countries are sugar, molasses and wool.

With the consent of the Senate he appoints all officers whose election or appointment is not otherwise provided for, including the bank examiner, state chemist, dairy and food commissioners, the boards of labour and health; the directors of the state institutions, &c., and fills all vacancies in elective offices until new officers are chosen and qualified.

The governor and other state officers form other boards, but the legislature is given power to establish special boards of directors.

Of the remaining members seven are nominated on the recommendation of the Calcutta corporation, groups of municipalities, groups of district boards, selected public associations and the senate of Calcutta university.

In 1905 an act was passed dividing the colony into school districts under the control of popularly elected school boards, which were established during 1905-1906.

The change from slave to free labour proved to be advantageous to the farmers in the western provinces; an efficient educational system, which owed its initiation to Sir John Herschel, the astronomer (who lived in Cape Colony from 1834 to 1838), was adopted; Road Boards were established and did much good work; to the staple industries - the growing of wheat, the rearing of cattle and the making of wine - was added sheepraising; and by 1846 wool became the most valuable export from the country.

An education act passed in 1905 established school boards on a popular franchise and provided for the gradual introduction of compulsory education.

These institutions (except the penitentiary, of which the governor of the state is an inspector) are governed each by a board of three trustees, the governor of the state and the secretary of state serving on all boards, and the third trustee being the state treasurer on the boards for the state insane asylum, the state reform school and the institute for the feeble-minded, and the superintendent of public instruction on the boards for the school for deaf mutes and the institute for the blind.

County superintendents, county boards, and township trustees are also chosen, the latter possessing the important power of issuing school bonds.

In the counties there are unsalaried boards of county charities and correction and county boards of children's guardians, appointed by the circuit judges.

The governor appoints, with the approval of the Senate, a board of public works and some other administrative boards, and he may veto any bill from the legislature, which cannot thereafter become a law unless again approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each house.

The final washing for ammonia is effected in an apparatus termed a" scrubber,"which is a cylindrical tower packed with boards 4 in, thick by II in.

In 1909 an act was passed permitting county boards to adopt a "coupon" ballot.

The chairmen of the several town boards of supervisors, with the The office of railroad commissioner was created in 1874, became elective in 1881 and was replaced under an act of 1905 by a commission of three members, which received jurisdiction over other public service corporations in 2907.

Cities are chartered according to population,' with a mayor, a single legislative chamber known as the board of aldermen or city council and the usual administrative officers and boards.

An act of 1901 permits county boards to establish county systems of travelling libraries.

The house is built of wood, but the siding is of wide thick boards so panelled as to give the appearance of cut and dressed stonework.

These committees are controlled by the committees of the syslur (county boards), and these again are under the control of the amtsra5 (quarter board), consisting of three members.

The mayor is elected for four years, and appoints, subject to the approval of the board of aldermen, the controller and the members of the two principal executive boards - the board of public works and the board of public safety.

He is a member of some important administrative boards, his veto power extends to items in appropriation bills, and to pass a bill over his veto a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house is required.

The common school system is administered by a state superintendent of public instruction, a state board of education, county superintendents and district boards.

By an ordinance of 1890 provision was made for the constitution of school boards, and the principle was first applied in Suva and Levuka.

In the same year he delivered his first strictly political speech, "On the Navy Boards" (Symmories).

There are a large number of administrative departments and boards, some, like the Board of Trade, discharging the same duties as the similar department in England; others, like the Congested Districts Board, dealing with matters of purely Irish concern.

The oratories were of the same form and material, but the larger churches and kingly banqueting halls were rectangular and made of sawn boards.

As a complement to the Land Act and Arrears Act, boards of guardians were this year empowered to build labourers' cottages with money borrowed on the security of the rates and repayable out of them.

Patras was at length, in 1687, surrendered by the Turks to the Venetians, who made it the seat of one of the seven fiscal boards into which they divided the Morea.

It provides for the election of a mayor, treasurer and comptroller for two-years terms; for elected boards of control for library, parks and education, and for a unicameral city council, half of which is chosen every two years for a term of four years.

The nobles were excluded from all share in the administration, which was in the hands of boards (juntas) of lawyers and men of the middle class.

It is in the Kansas natural-gas field, ships large quantities of grain, and has a large zinc oxide smelter and a large oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified brick and tile, flour, lumber, chemicals, window glass, bottles, pottery and straw boards.

Salaries have been too low to attract the ablest men; and as the constitution forbade the creation of new offices, and no amendment of this clause could be secured, resort was had to the creation of additional " secretaries " and of boards constituted of existing state officials or their secretaries.

The government was, of course, autocratic and even tyrannous, but it was organized on an elaborate system, army and civil service being administered by a series of boards, while the cities were governed by municipal commissioners responsible for public order and the upkeep of public works.

For local government purposes Tasmania is divided into municipalities, town boards, and road trusts.

The roads maintained by the road trusts and boards of the colony extend over 7695 miles, of which 4146 were macadamized; the annual expenditure thereon is over £35,768.

This district may of itself constitute a poor law union; but in the great majority of cases the unions, or areas under the jurisdiction of boards of guardians according to the Poor-Law Amendment Act of 1834, are made up of aggregated poor-law parishes.

Kirk-session and heritors were the educational authority until the establishment of school boards in 1872.

It established a local government board for Scotland, with a parish council in every parish, and abolished all parochial boards.

The government of Connecticut is also notable for the variety of its administrative boards.

Each school district elects one member of the county board of education, and in counties having less than five school districts one or more members of the county board, the number of which is always five, besides the county superintendent who is ex officio its secretary, are elected by the county at large, and to this county board of education together with district advisory boards is entrusted the management and control of the common schools.

He'd also been anonymously voted least popular by a disgruntled Guardian on their online discussion boards, and he was about 99 percent sure Jule was leading the pack on that one as his latest attempt to win some bet with Damian about their diverse leadership styles.

Like a small cadre of the like-minded Ouray citizens, she was enthusiastically active on a dozen local boards and charities.

She listed Annie Quincy and Reverend Martin on one of them ancestor search bulletin boards on the computer.

Boards are legally constituted as branches of Crimestoppers Trust.

Risk review management responsibilities are paramount to the boards of financial institutions.

Sole UK supplier of solid wood pre-finished flooring, skirting boards architraves, and interior paneling.

Cutting the boards around door architrave can be fiddly.

Passed a lot of boats this afternoon including a broad beam wooden Dutch barge with lee boards.

Boards were used to enclose the rails on the tower battlements.

Watch the Vatican news boards for his impending beatification, kids.

Please download these items for your own interest or to place on notice boards in your local area.

And any guidance may change as exam boards and teachers find problems and solutions.

Old trees with heavy limbs may be propped with boards to prevent breakage under heavy snow or ice.

O v O The few Oracles who are constructive do things like write articles on the game and run bulletin boards.

Boards are movable, allowing flexibility of exhibition space, with lockable castors at their base.

I started out using chalkboards in 1965 and now I'm using smart boards!

Communication between tutors and students is facilitated via discussion boards, real-time chat and email functions.

Produce chemically engraved metal plates, chemical milled components and printed circuit boards with the production equipment manufactured by Fortex.

I left 2 " gaps between the boards for air circulation.

Describe what you see around you work colleagues, desktops, team work schedule boards.

To ensure the content on our message boards remains legal and the debate remains constructive, a handful of message boards are moderated.

Now don't forget the kettle, the photo copiers, telephone switch boards, lamps, ... ... .

Dart Boards Two packets of ready salted crisps and a half of cider.

Names of dentists located in the areas supplied by the five Water Boards were obtained from local health authority lists of NHS registered dentists.

In 1864 Nottingham and Birmingham had sent a joint deputation to the Home Secretary urging the creation of regional drainage boards.

Councils, health boards and quangos will be ordered to cut waste and eliminate duplication.

For now stick with white eggshell or satinwood windowsills, door frames, doors and skirting boards.

Information slips supplied and even fitted to boards on site erected by your own sign erector or contractor with no obligation to have the.

Unlike most estate agents, we have designed our boards to sell your house, not to sell our services.

He has been an examiner for three of the British exam boards.

Her sleek exterior is from the drawing boards of Reymond Langton Design, with Pascal Reymond taking personal charge of the graceful interior.

If timber fascia boards are replaced with another material, such as UPVC, there can be compatibility problems.

There's an Olympic pool, lakeside diving boards, inflatable water climbing floats, table tennis and fast flume.

How often do you use discussion fora or bulletin boards to help you be an effective student?

These codes show the willingness of boards to regulate themselves, thus forestalling the need for government to intervene with codes of its own.

In the UK, board manufacturers are advertising low formaldehyde or zero formaldehyde emission boards made to the stringent German " E1 " standard.

These boards had wooden framing which extended beyond the edges into brackets on the wooden side.

Alcohol may be part of a social gathering at the Museum with the Boards approval.

The somber black cloth boards and striking silver lettering give the edition gravitas and an appropriately sinister quality.

Short board gybe carve, slalom gybe; duck gybe; slam gybe; tacking shorter boards.

Code Universe also features programming forums, news, articles, dicussion boards, etc. Code Universe - Where developers hangout!

The Water Management Board election is not a very high-profile election, many show little interest in what these boards are doing.

As well as displaying the Ultra Board Range of lightweight paper honeycomb boards, Dufaylite will also be launching PRINT KITS.

The decalogue boards themselves were placed somewhere inconspicuous, usually high on the west wall, or in the space beneath the tower.

The Treasury had agreed to provide more extensive indemnification for members of boards of NDPBs.

Teams had to use milk crates and boards to cross shark infested waters.

All guests have free access to float mats, ocean kayaks, snorkeling gear, life vests, and boards.

Apply the varnish in the direction of the grain to a couple of boards at a time along their entire length.

Cables leading from the organ loft to the belfry are joined to big switch boards.

Too bad we never get to see him go medieval on the boards.

The main point was that the two boards not Council would be elected by the membership.

Now Higgs has codified the modern thinking that executives are indeed mere managers and boards should comprise a majority of non-executives.

Message boards are also a great way of allowing past pupils to post message boards are also a great way of allowing past pupils to post messages.

Both the Boards and the business and process owners who report to the Boards can apply this methodology more widely.

If you want to know more about a particular topic you can visit our message boards where you will find lots more useful information.

Each board securely rested in two sockets of silver, having mortises into which the tenons of the boards entered.

The invention may even eliminate the necessity of letter boards and spelling devices.

It was a very nerve-racking experience standing in front of the Girlguiding picture boards waiting to be presented to Her Majesty.

Both the boards exhibit the same problems and can be made to freeze at random simply by being in an electrically noisy environment.

If we can accomplish this it will allow people to run the new oe on specific Amiga configurations with PowerPC boards.

Reports on academic matters mainly originate from the appropriate Faculty Boards.

To be found in large format pictorial glazed boards are 96 printed pages.

To be found in landscape pictorial glazed boards are 80 printed pages of 87 all color photographs, the majority being full page.

Stringers, ceiling planking and small filler boards attached to the frames by wooden treenails made up the inner hull planking.

The boards are made from the highest grade plywood from Eastern Europe with a white Ash frame.

We decided on MDF boards with beaded edges, filled with extruded polystyrene to allow us to properly sculpt the rivers.

Be very careful when adjusting small potentiometers on printed circuit boards.

Our boards are based on Intel 80x86 CPUs, mainly the Pentium M and dual-core processors, with high-speed peripheral and other interfaces.

Many schools who install data projectors simply point these at their existing white boards.

Promethean boards have been installed in all Art studios during the last half term break.

Boards that Make a Difference is well worth reading.

We resolved this dispute by extending the remit of the Boards Admin Board to cover the Boards Admin Board itself.

The Swish cellular PVC product range includes roofline and cladding systems, and window boards and trims.

The staircase by now was quite derelict with boards steps missing and where they were present, they looked very rotten.

Fresh cut pole wood from a nearby forest formed the rafters, the rough boards covered with butyl rubber for waterproofing.

The ridge of the water boards should be sealed with a suitable flexible sealant.

Fill any gaps in skirting boards with silicon sealant.

Building material - Traditionally oak was the main building timber in Europe including posts or beams, boards or roof shingles.

These are also available in a number of cladding options such as tongue and grooved shiplap, feather edge and full 22mm boards.

Blimey... apologies for all of that... I'll just slink off back to my apocolyptic doom cult boards now.

The paint on my asbestos soffit boards is flaking badly.

The cheapest option is to use softwood for the boards.

A mid-term revision brought further styling tweaks, including the loss of the running boards and the addition of rear wheel spats.

So now you can sling your surf boards onto your Ferrari and look sporty as well as filthy rich.

The diving boards included a 1 meter springboard and a symmetrically stepped stage up to 8 feet high.

It was these miniature stepladders and ironing boards that inspired him to begin producing toys.

Instead, use examining boards ' syllabi to determine the level of content required for a particular subject and level.

When you are looking for advice, try consulting one of the many share tipsters or trawling through financial websites ' bulletin boards.

Park in Rostrevor forest and take a look at the information boards, which show a series of short way-marked trails.

In a 2000 you could have up to 4 other transputer daughter boards with 4 transputer daughter boards with 4 transputer chips on each.

Duck boards, raised platforms or similar are very unsightly.

Copy exact URL 's of groups, message boards, photos, etc to report to them.

Mid 17th-century binding of white vellum over boards; edges partly colored with red and blue stripes.

Notices are displayed on the Honors boards in the ground-floor vestibule of the Department.

We stopped at the site of a land slide in 1965, read the informative notice boards and used the washrooms.

The original workshop was dominated by two hinged display boards bearing eagles with eight-foot wingspans.

The Southern Church, unlike the Northern, is not working through "boards," but through executive committees, which were formerly more loosely organized, and which left to the presbyteries the more direct control of their activities, but which now differ little from the boards of the northern Church.

Its central enactment was to bring into existence (1) " Special Boards," consisting of an equal number of representatives of employers and workmen respectively in any trade, under the presidency of an independent chairman, and (2) a Court of Industrial Appeals.

In Queensland, where the earliest factory legislation dates from 1896, keen parliamentary conflict raged round the pro posal in 1907 to introduce the special boards system for fixing wages.

It was in the "yamen" of one of these boards - the Li Pu or board of rites - that Lord Elgin signed the treaty at the conclusion of the war in 1860 - an event which derives especial interest from the fact of its having been the first occasion on which a European plenipotentiary ever entered Peking accompanied by all the pomp and circumstance of his rank.

Judges, heads of departments, and executive boards are elected, and even in the few instances in which the governor appoints to office the confirmation of the Senate is necessary.

The great powers of the intendant were, however, merged in those of the governorgeneral in 1853; and the captain-general having been given by royal order in 1825 (several times later explicitly confirmed, and not revoked until 1870) the absolute powers (to be assumed at his initiative and discretion) of the governor of a besieged city, and by a royal order of 1834 the power to banish at will persons supposed to be inimical to the public peace; and being by virtue of his office the president and dominator of all the important administrative boards of the government, held the government of the island, and in any emergency the liberty and property of its inhabitants, in his hand.

The charitable and correctional institutions of Minnesota have been since 1901 under the supervision of a State Board of Control consisting of three paid members appointed by the governor and serving for terms of six years; this board supplanted an unpaid Board of Corrections and Charities established in 1883, and the boards of managers of separate institutions (except the schools for the deaf and the blind at Faribault, and the state public school at Owatonna) and of groups of institutions were abolished.

Since expert advice was absolutely essential to the efficient working of such control, the task of carrying out the regulations as to the distribution of materials, etc., was entrusted to central boards under the form of war associations (Kriegsverb¢nde), or economic associations (Wirtschaftsverbcinde), each controlling certain materials.

In addition to regulating the distribution of raw materials these boards exercised other useful functions, such as discovering fresh sources of supply, improving methods of production, etc. They also acted as receiving centres for goods imported from neutral countries, allied states or occupied territories.

Among the various state administrative boards are the board of equalization of five members, the board of health of nine members, a board of control of state institutions with four members (bipartisan), and the railroad commission, the prison commission, the state election commission and the sinking fund commission of three members each.