Sessions Sentence Examples

The weekend phone sessions proved to be a mixed success.

Howie's first two sessions were failures.

But Julie doesn't know you're sessions are by phone or what causes the terrible dreams, does she?

Similar amending bills were introduced in the 1905 and 1906 sessions, but were withdrawn.

Sessions of the General Assembly are held biennially, beginning on the Wednesday after the first Monday in January.

The government of the church is chiefly according to the congregational principle, and the women have an equal voice with the men; but annual meetings, attended by the bishops, teachers and other delegates from the several congregations are held, and at these sessions the larger questions involving church polity are considered and decided by a committee of five bishops.

Its sessions occupy a week in May of each year.

The law created a departmental committee (commission departementale), elected by the conseil general which, in the interval of the sessions of the latter, takes part in matters concerning the administration of the departmental interests, either in virtue of the law, or by a delegation of pOwers from the conseil general.

He bracketed the time for several sessions and kept meticulous records.

In spite of the time lapse between practice sessions, she did well enough to win his praise.

For, although the council of Trent recognized fully the distinction which has been mentioned above between the Eucharist and the sacrifice of the mass, and treated of them in separate sessions (the former in Session xiii., the latter in Session xxii.), it continued the medieval theory of the nature of the latter.

Amendments to the constitution must be passed by a majority of each house of the legislature at two consecutive sessions and submitted to a vote of the people at the next regular election.

Extra sessions, called by the governor on the advice of the council of state, are limited to twenty days, but may be extended under the same limitations in regard to compensation.

In Newington Causeway is the Sessions House for the county of London (south of the Thames).

It has one court of quarter sessions and is divided into fifteen petty sessional divisions.

Aaron Burr was tried for treason and then for misdemeanour in this building in 1807, the Virginia secession convention met here in 1861, and during the Civil War the sessions of the Confederate Congress were held here.

All being ready, the Ancients on the 18 Brumaire (9th of November) decreed the transference of the sessions of both Councils to St Cloud, on the plea of a Jacobin plot which threatened the peace of Paris.

The Rump proceeded to expel sixty-one Jacobins from the Council of Five Hundred, adjourned its sessions until the 19th of February 1800, and appointed a commission of twenty-five members with power to act in the meantime.

Biennial sessions are held beginning on the first Monday in January of the even-numbered years.

It was granted a separate court of quarter sessions in 1890, it was constituted a county borough in 1888, and, by letters patent dated the 28th of October 1905, it was created a city and the dignity of lord mayor conferred on its chief magistrate.

After holding very numerous sessions, the "congregation" was able to decide nothing, and in 1607 its meetings were suspended by Paul V., who in 1611 prohibited all further discussion of the question "de auxiliis," and studious efforts were made to control the publication even of commentaries on Aquinas.

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We buckled down and managed three sessions.

Quinn could try different sessions.

There was no need for the high-rise quiet Quinn and Howie had required as we were no longer conducting sessions.

She was strong for a woman as well, which she'd revealed during their two training sessions.

Jenn stood smoothly and quickly at the hint, no doubt reminded of their many sparring sessions.

June 1642, attended by five ministers and by ruling elders from the regimental sessions.

Questions received from various quarters were discussed and the final decision of the Kallah was signed by the Resh-Kallah or president of the general assembly, who was only second in rank to the Resh-Metibta, or president of the scholastic sessions.

The governor is empowered to call extraordinary sessions of the legislature, to grant pardons and reprieves, and to exercise a power of veto which extends to items in appropriation bills; a two-thirds majority of the legislature is necessary to pass a bill over his veto.

The boroughs of Derby, Chesterfield and Glossop have separate commissions of the peace, and that of Derby has also a separate court of quarter sessions.

The justices were authorized to fix wages at the Easter quarter sessions.

Ordinarily the sessions were held in the morning, but evening sessions were also frequent, often extending late into the night.

The Convention published a Prods-verbal of its sessions, which, although lacking the value of those published by assemblies to-day, is an official document of capital importance.

The constitutional conventions of 1845 and 1875, and the state convention which issued the call for the National Liberal Republican convention at Cincinnati in 1872, met here, and so for some of its sessions did the state convention of 1861-1863.

The ministers are appointed and removed by the president, take no part in the sessions of congress, and are responsible to the president alone for their advisory acts.

The regular annual sessions are of four months' duration, but they may be extended to complete necessary legislation.

There are twelve sessions annually, under the Lord Mayor, aldermen and judges.

The commissioners of division are ex officio sessions judges in their several divisions, and also have civil powers, and powers as revenue officers.

Invited to Tuscany by the Countess Matilda, he convoked a council at Piacenza in March 1095, attended by so vast a number of prelates and laymen that its sessions were held in the open air, and addressed by ambassadors of Alexis, the Byzantine emperor, who sought aid against the Mussulmans.

His public career closes with addresses delivered in his capacity as chief commissioner of the great seal at the beginning of the sessions of January 20, 1658, and January 2, 1659, in which the religious basis of Cromwell's government is especially insisted upon, the feature to which Fiennes throughout his career had attached most value.

A statute of 1553 made the breaking or defacing of an altar, crucifix or cross in any church, chapel or churchyard punishable with three months' imprisonment on conviction before two justices, the imprisonment to be continued unless the offender entered into surety for good behaviour at quarter sessions.

The duty of giving the lord advice was often demanded and fulfilled in sessions of the court, and in these feudal courts the obligations of lord and vassal were enforced, with an ultimate appeal to war.

In the First Parish Church, the site of which is marked by a monument, the Provincial Congress, after adjournment from Concord, met from April to July 1775; the Massachusetts General Court held its sessions here from 1775 to 1778, and the Boston town meetings were held here during the siege of Boston, when many of the well-known Boston families made their homes in the neighbourhood.

Amendments to the constitution must be passed by both houses of the General Assembly at two consecutive sessions, and must then be ratified by three-fifths of the electors of the state present and voting thereon in town and ward meetings.

During the revolutionary period of 1848 the people of Frankfort, where the united German parliament held its sessions, took a chief part in political movements, and the streets of the town were more than once the scene of conflict.

Assizes are held at Armagh, and quarter sessions at Armagh,Ballybot, Lurgan,Markethill and Newtown-Hamilton.

The legislature met for the first time in 1841 and continued to hold its sessions here until 1857, when Des Moines, on account of its more central position, was made the capital.

The archdeacon's court, the sessions and the county elections were long held at Lostwithiel, but all have now been removed.

Even at the later sessions the cardinal of Lorraine with the French prelates supported the German representatives in requests for the cup for the laity,the permission of the marriage of priests, and the revision of the breviary.

A certain number of them hold courts of chancery, general sessions, oyer and terminer, and an orphans' court; the six together constitute the supreme court, but the judge from whose decision appeal is made may not hear the appealed case unless the appeal is made at his own instance.

Meetings of the legislature are biennial, although special sessions may be called by the governor.

The supreme court has three sessions a year, while each district-court judge is directed to hold at least one session a year in each county of his district, and no two districtcourt judges may sit together on the same case.

Justice is administered by petty sessions in the six magisterial districts into which the possession is divided, with a central court at Port Moresby (which, however, sits elsewhere as necessary) having the jurisdiction of a supreme court, from which in certain cases an appeal lies to the supreme court of Queensland.

This post he occupied for three successive sessions, during which he continued writing for the Westminster, and also in 1842 helped Mill with the revision of the MS. of his System of Logic. In 1843 he contributed the first review of the book to the London and Westminster.

In the " recesses " or formal statements issued at the conclusion of the sessions of the diet one can follow the trend of opinion among the German princes, secular and ecclesiastical.

In spite of the fact that the separation from Rome had been carried out during the sessions of a single parliament, and that there had been no opportunity for a general expression of opinion on the part of the nation, there of the is no reason to suppose that the majority of the people, thoughtful or thoughtless, were not ready to reconcile themselves to the abolition of the papal Henry supremacy.

One of the four town syndics was to preside over its sessions.

Encouraged by these and other conventions in order to obstruct the collection of debts and taxes, a mob prevented a session of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace at Northampton on the 29th of August, and in September other mobs prevented the same court from sitting in Worcester, Middlesex and Berkshire counties.

The legislature meets in annual sessions, beginning in January.

At the close of the colonial era there were a court of chancery, a supreme court, circuit courts and courts of oyer and terminer which were held in the several counties by the justices of the supreme court, a court of common pleas and a court of sessions in each county, and courts held by justices of the peace in the several towns.

At its first session the assembly passed an act declaratory of the rights and privileges of the people, and much like the charter of liberties and privileges enacted in 1683, except that annual instead of triennial sessions of the assembly were now requested and, as was also provided in Sloughter's commission and instructions, religious liberty was denied to Roman Catholics.

Regular sessions of the legislature are held biennially, in odd-numbered years, and begin on the second Monday in January.

It holds four sessions a year at Helena and has both original and appellate jurisdiction.

The sessions of the legislature are biennial and are limited to sixty days.

It has two courts of quarter sessions, and is divided into 17 petty sessional divisions.

The boroughs having separate commissions of the peace and courts of quarter sessions are Canterbury, Deal, Dover, Faversham, Folkestone, Gravesend, Hythe, Maidstone, Margate, Rochester, Sandwich and Tenterden; while those of Lydd, New Romney, Ramsgate and Tunbridge Wells have separate commissions of the peace.

The liberty of Romney Marsh has petty and general sessions.

The justices of the Cinque Ports exercise certain jurisdiction, the non-corporate members of the Cinque Ports of Dover and Sandwich having separate commissions of the peace and courts of quarter sessions.

The liberty of Romney Marsh has petty and quarter sessions under its charters.

The Convention attended his funeral, and placed his bust in the hall where it held its sessions.

The sessions of the legislature are biennial, and are limited to sixty days.

Amendments to the constitution must be passed by both houses of the legislature at two consecutive sessions, and must then be ratified by popular vote.

The assize town is Belfast, and quarter sessions are held at Ballymena, Ballymoney, Belfast, Lame and Lisburn.

The courts have both original and appellate jurisdiction and are required to hold at least two sessions to which jurors shall be summoned every year in each county of its circuit, and if only two such terms are held, there must be two other and intermediate terms to which jurors shall not be summoned.

By 1650 the assembly had been divided into two houses, in one of which sat only the representatives of the freemen without whose consent no bill could become a law, and annual sessions as well as triennial elections were coming to be the usual order.

The governor is commander-in-chief of the militia when it is not called into the service of the United States; he may remit fines and forfeitures, commute sentences, and grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment; and he calls extraordinary sessions of the legislature.

Two ordinary congressional sessions are held each year - April 1 to May 31 and September 16 to December 15 - and a permanent committee of 29 members (14 senators and 15 deputies) sits during recess, with the power to confirm executive appointments, to give assent to a mobilization of the national guard, fo convene extra legislative sessions, to administer oaths, and to report at the next session on matters requiring congressional action.

The supreme court holds one general term each year at Concord and on the first Tuesday of every month except July and August sits to hear arguments, make orders and render decisions; the superior court holds one or two sessions a year in every county.

A chancery and exchequer for the counties of Brecknock and Radnor were also established at Brecon Castle, and from 1542 till 1830 the great sessions, and since then the assizes, and at all times the quarter sessions for the county, have been held at Brecon.

The borough had also a separate court of quarter sessions till 1835.

It has become the wish of the people in most places to have sessions both short and few.

Whereas formerly legislatures met annually, regular sessions are now biennial except in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia and South Carolinaall original states.

The sessions of the court are held in the Capitol.

The sessions continued in Quebec at intervals until the 10th of October, when the commission adjourned to meet in Washington on the 1st of November, where the discussions were renewed for some weeks.

On the 16th of May, after sessions in which the Senate repeatedly reversed the rulings of the chief justice as to the admission of evidence, in which the president's counsel showed that their case was excellently prepared and the prosecuting counsel appealed in general to political passions rather than to judicial impartiality, the eleventh article was voted on and impeachment failed by a single vote (35 to 19; 7 republicans and 12 democrats voting " Not guilty ") of the necessary two-thirds.

The new court, if adopted, would hold regular and continuous sessions, consist of the same judges, and pay due heed to the precedents created by its prior decisions.

Its mode of operation is to work out the matters it deals with during the intervals between the sessions, in permanent commissions, among which the whole domain of international law is divided up. The commissions, under the direction of their rapporteurs or conveners, prepare reports and proposals, which are printed and distributed among the members some time before the plenary sittings at which they are to be discussed.

Assizes are held at Castlebar, and quarter sessions at Ballina, Ballinrobe, Belmullet, Castlebar, Claremorris, Swineford and Westport.

Completing his divinity studies by a series of partial sessions, he was "licensed" to preach in June 1815, but continued to discharge his scholastic duties for three years.

For three successive sessions a majority of the legislature was composed of office-holders, dependent on the favour of the executive.

In 1785 he became a commission merchant in Philadelphia; but in October 1786, soon after the legislature of Pennsylvania had passed a bill for erecting Wyoming district into the county of Luzerne, he was appointed prothonotary and a judge of the court of common pleas and clerk of the court of sessions and orphans, court for the new county, and was commissioned to organize the county.

Sessions are biennial.

The judges of the common pleas are also judges of the courts of oyer and terminer, quarter sessions of the peace and general gaol delivery, and the orphans' courts, although there are separate orphans' courts in the counties (ten in 1909) having a population of more than one hundred and fifty thousand.

It increased the number of senators and representatives, created the office of lieutenant-governor, substituted biennial for annual sessions of the legislature, introduced minority representation in the choice of the higher judiciary and of the county commissioners and auditors and provided (as had an amendment adopted in 1850) for the election of all judges by popular vote.

The provincial synods are composed of ministers and elders deputed by the classes; and these are composed of the ministers belonging to the particular class and an equal number of elders appointed by the local sessions.

This elaborate system was only carried into law after considerable and violent opposition in the sessions of 1894 and 1895.

He was, in 1684, carried three times to the sessions house, being scarcely able to stand, and without any apparent cause was made to enter into a bond for £400 in security for his good behaviour.

It met in the Lateran church, was attended by one hundred and five bishops (chiefly from Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, a few being from Africa and other quarters), held five sessions or "secretarii" from the 5th to the 31st of October 649, and in twenty canons condemned the Monothelite heresy, its authors, and the writings by which it had been promulgated.

Both the Bundesrat and the Reichstag meet in annual sessions convoked by tile emperor who has the right of proroguing and dissolving the Diet; but the prorogation must not exceed 60 days, and in case of dissolution new elections must be ordered within 60 days, and the new session opened within 90 days.

Elba (March 5), it remained a mere sketch, the hasty output of a few hurried sessions, of which the elaboration was reserved for the future.

For this he was cast into prison, indicted at sessions, bullied and fined.

For two sessions he spoke and voted with his colleagues, but after the bombardment of the Alexandria forts he left the ministry and never held office again.

It had one court of quarter sessions, and is divided into ten petty sessional divisions.

The borough of Brecon has a separate commission of the peace, but no separate court of quarter sessions.

The borough of Denbigh has a separate commission of the peace, but no separate court of quarter sessions.

Here also are chief offices of the various heads of the government departments, and here the legislative council of the colony holds its sessions.

The president, whose salary is 12,000 sucres per annum, has a limited veto power, and may convene extraordinary sessions of Congress for a specified purpose, but he has no further authority ovwr that body.

By Theophilus's instrumentality a synod was called to try or rather to condemn the archbishop; but fearing the violence of the mob in the metropolis, who idolized him for the fearlessness with which he exposed the vices of their superiors, it held its sessions at the imperial estate named " The Oak " (Synodus ad quercum), near Chalcedon, where Rufinus had erected a stately church and monastery.

It provided that all petitions relating to slavery should be laid on the table without being referred to committee or printed; and, in substance, this resolution was re-adopted at the beginning of each of the immediately succeeding sessions of congress, the Patton Resolution being adopted in 1837, the Atherton Resolution, or "Atherton Gag," in 1838, and the Twenty-first Rule in 1840 and subsequently until repealed.

At Mount Pleasant is the parcels department of the general post office, and at Clerkenwell Green the sessions house for the county of London (north side of the Thames).

Below these courts come district and sessions judges, who perform the ordinary judicial work of the country, civil and criminal.

But, except in Madras, where the districts are large, a single civil and sessions judge sometimes exercises jurisdiction over more than one district.

After a short detention in a police cell, an offender, unless disposed of summarily, passes into one of His Majesty's prisons, there to await his trial at sessions or assizes.

But to say that it is two judgments causing a third is always true, and the very essence of inference, because we must think the two to conclude the third in " the sessions of sweet silent thought."

The length of the regular biennial legislative sessions is limited to sixty days, but by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house the length of any session may be extended.

Special sessions may be called by the governor.

Sessions are long in primary schools, and attendance was made compulsory in 1874 (and must not be less than two-thirds of all school days).

A furious conflict developed, so that nothing was accomplished in two successive sessions; even at the end of a third, in March 1849, the only progress made toward creating a government for the territory was that the national revenue laws had been extended over it and San Francisco had been made a port of entry.

The legislature meets biennially, in odd-numbered years, on the second Tuesday in January, and the length of its sessions is limited to forty days.

They desired a freer land-grant system, protection against the inroads of the Indians along the border, and frequent sessions of an assembly to be chosen by all the freeholders.

Among the principal public buildings are the town hall (1880), in the French Renaissance style; the county hall (1898), a handsome structure with octagonal tower and dome over the principal entrance; the large corn exchange (1837, enlarged 1862), including a concert-room; the market house, the sessions house, the county offices (1896) and the prison for the West Riding; the mechanics' institution with large library, church institute and library, and the fine art institution.

The General Assemblies are biennial, sessions limited to 90 days (45 before 1884); state and county elections are held at the same time (since 1902).

The sessions were biennial and limited to 60 days.

In 18 o Mr Gladstone declared for y 9 disestablishment, and under his government of 1892 a Disestablishment Bill was introduced in the House of Commons by Sir Charles Cameron, in two successive sessions, 1893-1894.

The extinction of the Welsh Court of Great Sessions in 1830 served to remove the last relic of separate jurisdiction in Wales itself, but in 1881 special legislation was once more inaugurated by the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (46 Victoria), forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors by all inn-keepers on Sundays to any but bona fide travellers throughout Wales and Monmouthshire.

The act of 1542 also enacted that courts of justice under the name of " The King's Great Sessions in Wales " should sit twice a year in every one of the counties of Wales, except Monmouth, which was thus formally declared an English shire.

Under the system of the Great Sessions justice was administered throughout the twelve counties of Wales for nearly three hundred years, and it was not until 1830 that this system of jurisdiction was abolished (not without some protest from Welsh members at Westminster), and the existing North and_South Wales circuits were brought into being.

Before 1844 the sessions of the Triennial Convention had occasionally been made unpleasant by harsh anti-slavery utterances by Northern members against their Southern brethren and somewhat acrimonious rejoinders by the latter.

He kept a diffident silence during two sessions, his first speech being in strong opposition to slavery, which he proposed to discourage and eventually to abolish, by imposing a heavy tax on all further importations.

In March 1677 a peace congress began its sessions at Nijmwegen; and in the beginning of April 1678 the French king dictated the terms of a general pacification.

This was effected, and thus magisterial functions were completely separated from the duties of the executive police; for although the jurisdiction of the two justices, afterwards called commissioners, as magistrates extended to ordinary duties (except at courts of general or quarter sessions), from the first they took no part in the examination or committal for trial of persons charged with offences.

During two summer sessions he studied philosophy and theology at Bonn and Göttingen, making friends in all branches of learning.

The same year he turned his attention to politics and was regarded as one of the most promising young orators of the day, especially during the sessions of the diet of 1832-1836, when he had the courage to oppose Kossuth.

Under the reign of St Louis (which was also the period at which the name parlement began to be applied to these judicial sessions) the aspect of affairs changed.

At the same time the Parlement had become permanent; the number of the sessions had diminished, but their length had increased.

Newspapers ceased publication, the town council suspended sessions, churches and business buildings were alike empty.

Congress meets annually and its sessions are for sixty days, which may be extended to ninety days.

The assizes and quarter sessions for Glamorgan are held at Swansea alternately with Cardiff.

The borough has a separate commission of the peace, and, since 1891, a court of quarter sessions.

The administration of justice is entrusted to a supreme court, a continually increasing number of circuit courts (thirty-eight in 1909), one probate court in each county, and not exceeding four justices of the peace in each township. The supreme court is composed of one chief justice and seven associate justices, all elected for a term of ten years, not more than two retiring every two years; it holds four sessions annually, exercises a general control over the inferior courts, may issue, hear and determine any of the more important writs, and has appellate jurisdiction only in all other important cases.

Circuit court judges have original jurisdiction in most matters civil and criminal, hear appeals from the lower courts, and must hold at least four sessions annually in each county of the circuit.

Amendments to the constitution must first be passed by the legislature at two consecutive sessions (receiving a majority' vote of all members elected to each house), and then be ratified by the voters at a special election, and no amendment or amendments may be submitted by the legislature to the people oftener than once in five years.

The state is divided into nine judicial districts, and each supreme court justice holds circuit courts within each county of a judicial district, besides being associated with the " president " judge of the court of common pleas of each county in holding the court of common pleas, the court of quarter sessions, the court of oyer and terminer and the orphans' court.

The court of quarter sessions, which may likewise be held by either the judge of the court of common pleas or by a justice of the supreme court, has jurisdiction over all criminal cases except those of treason or murder.

In the intervals between sessions of the assembly, affairs were to be managed by ten commissioners chosen by that body.

For centuries before, from the reign of Edward III., under a number of statutes and commissions, the administrative work in the counties had been in the hands of the country gentlemen and the clergy, acting as justices of the peace, and sitting in petty sessions and quarter sessions.

The second is the quarter sessions borough, which forms part of the county for certain specified purposes only.

The clerk of the peace was formerly paid by fees which were fixed by quarter sessions, but he is now generally, if not in every case, paid by salary, the fees received by him being paid into the county fund.

Power is also given to appoint joint-committees with other county councils in matters in which the two councils are jointly interested, but a joint-committee so appointed must not be confounded with the standing joint-committee of the county council and the quarter sessions, which is a distinct statutory body and is elsewhere referred to.

The larger quarter sessions boroughs, i.e.

The third class of boroughs comprises those which have a separate court of quarter sessions, but had according to the census of 1881 a population of less than 10,000.

All such boroughs form part of the county for the purposes of pauper lunatics, analysts, reformatory and industrial schools, fish conservancy, explosives, and, of course, the purposes for which the larger quarter sessions boroughs also form part of the county, such as main roads, and are assessed to county rate accordingly.

And in a borough, whether a quarter sessions borough or not, which had in 1881 a population of less than io,000, all the powers which the borough council formerly possessed as to police, analysts, diseases of animals, gas meters, and weights and measures cease and are transferred to the county council, the boroughs becoming in fact part of the area of the county for these purposes.

The county council may, with the consent of the Local Government Board, borrow money on the security of the county fund or any of its revenues, for consolidating the debts of the county; purchasing land or buildings; any permanent work or other thing, the cost of which ought to be spread over a term 'of years; making advances in aid of the emigration or colonization of inhabitants of the county; and any purpose for which quarter sessions or the county council are authorized by any act to borrow.

Elaborate provision is made for the distribution of the surplus (if any), with a view to securing a due share being paid to the quarter sessions boroughs.

Act 1888 the only form of countygovern 1' S' g lent in England was that of the justices in quarter sessions (q.v.).

Quarter sessions were originally a judicial body, but being the only body having jurisdiction over the county as a whole, certain powers were conferred and certain duties imposed upon them with reference to various matters of county government from time to time.

The principal object of the act of 1888 was to transfer these powers and duties from the quarter sessions to the new representative body - the county council; and it may be said that substantially the whole of the administrative business of quarter sessions was thus transferred.

The overseers of any parish aggrieved by the basis may appeal against it to quarter sessions, and it is to be noticed that this appeal is not interfered with, the transfer of the duties of justices relating only to administrative and not to judicial business.

In addition to the business of quarter sessions thus transferred, there was also transferred to the county council certain business of the justices of the county out of session, that is to say, in petty or special sessions.

The powers, duties and liabilities of the quarter sessions and justices out of session with respect to the county police were vested in the quarter sessions and the county council jointly, and are now exercised through the standing joint-committee of the two bodies.

That committee consists of an equal number of members of the county council and of justices appointed by the quarter sessions, the number being arranged between the two bodies or fixed by the secretary of state.

The committee are also charged with the duties of appointing or removing the clerk of the peace, and they have jurisdiction in matters relating to justices' clerks, the provision of accommodation for quarter sessions or justices out of session, and the like, and their expenses are paid by the county council out of the county fund.

It was provided by the Highway Act 1878 that every road which was disturnpiked after the 31st of December 1870 should be deemed to be a main road, the expenses of the repair and maintenance of which were to be contributed as to one-half thereof by the justices in quarter sessions, then the county authority.

As already stated, the powers of the quarter sessions under the act of 1878 were transferred to the county council under the Local Government Act of 1888, and that body alone has now power to declare a road to be a main road.

Part of the business transferred from quarter sessions to the council was that which related to pauper lunatics, but the whole.

The councils of all administrative counties and county boroughs and the councils of a few specified quarter sessions boroughs, which before 1890 were independent areas for purposes of the Lunacy Acts, are local authorities for the purposes of the Lunacy Acts, and each of them is under an obligation to provide asylum accommodation for pauper lunatics.

Where a borough has not a separate court of quarter sessions, but has a separate commission of the peace, the justices of the county in which the borough is situate have a concurrent jurisJuris d - diction with the borough justices in all matters arising ti o n o within the borough.

Where, however, the borough has Justices; a court of quarter sessions, the county justices have no quarter jurisdiction within the borough.

The crown may also on petition of the council grant a separate court of quarter sessions for the borough, and in that event a recorder has to be appointed by the crown.

The recorder sits as sole judge of the court of quarter sessions of the borough.

He has all the powers of a court of quarter sessions in a county, including the power to hear appeals from the borough justices; but to this there are a few exceptions, notably the power to grant licences for the sale of intoxicating liquor.

The grant of a separate court of quarter sessions also involves the appointment by the council of a clerk of the peace for the borough.

It should be added that the grant of a court of quarter sessions to any borough other than a county borough after the passing of the Local Government Act 1888, does not affect the powers, duties or liabilities of the county council as regards that borough, nor exempt the parishes in the borough from being assessed to county rate for any purposes to which such parishes were previously liable to be assessed.

And where the borough has a separate court of quarter sessions the council appoint Sheriff, a fit and proper person, not an alderman or councillor, to coroner.

In the quarter sessions boroughs other than county boroughs they have some only of these powers.

Except in these cases the highway authority in a parish was the surveyor of highways, elected annually by the inhabitants in vestry, or in a highway district consisting of a number of parishes united by order of quarter sessions, the highway board composed of waywardens representing the several parishes.

In quarter sessions boroughs, however, where the council have the duty of appointing a public analyst, they are under an obligation to put the acts in force from time to time, as occasion may arise.

The local administration of justice devolving upon the justices in quarter or petty sessions is hardly a matter of local government, although in one important respect, that, namely, of the licensing of premises for the sale of intoxicating liquors, it may be thought that the duties of justices fall within the scope of local government.

He and the council examine and pass upon election returns; he may summon extra sessions of the legislature, and he may grant pardons, reprieves, and commutations in all cases except impeachment, but the manner of hearing applications for pardon is in a measure prescribed by statute, and he must present to the legislature an account of each case in which he grants a pardon.

An appeal from these lies to the departmental courts, which sit in every capital of a department, and in which sessions are held, at stated times, for the trial by jury of serious offences.

The legislature (or, as it is called in Missouri, General Assembly) had been permitted to hold adjourned sessions under the constitution of 1865.

The state convention, after voting against secession, had adjourned, and after various sessions was dissolved in October 1863.

In the sessions and discussions of the council he could take no part; but in unofficial conferences he took sides vigorously, according to his own evidence, against the Arians, and was certainly not without influence.

He attended for two sessions the medical and the Greek classes in Anderson's College, Glasgow, and also a theological class.

Mr. Law maintained his stout opposition to the Home Rule and Welsh Church bills on their second and third appearances in the sessions of 1913 and 1914.

The sessions of the legislature are biennial.

In regular sessions not exceeding fifty days and in special sessions not exceeding thirty days the members of both houses are paid three dollars a day besides an allowance for travelling expenses, but they receive no compensation for the extra time of longer sessions.

At many sessions of the legislature its enemies vainly attempted its repeal.

During its first two sessions it accomplished greater changes in legislation than had been attempted by any ministry since that of Lord Grey.

In its three last sessions it was destined to sink into gradual disrepute; and it was ultimately swept away by a wave of popular reaction, as remarkable as that which had borne it into power.

In two sessions two branches of the upas tree hnd been summarily cut off.

The first breach in the Liberal ranks had been made; and the government, after 1870, never again commanded the same united support which had enabled it to pursue its victorious career in the first two sessions of its existence.

In these circumstances legislation in 1871 was not marked with the success-which had attended the government in previous sessions.

Its site was selected in 1630 by Governor Winthrop and others as suitable for fortifications and defence, and it was intended to make it the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; but as Boston's peninsular position gave it the advantage in commerce and in defence against the Indians, the plan fell through, although up to 1638 various sessions of the general court and particular courts were held here.

This council has held biennial sessions in London, Amsterdam, Geneva and Boston.

Sessions are held biennially in evennumbered years and begin the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January.

In the home of the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747), its first president, the first sessions of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) were held in 1747, but immediately afterwards the college removed to Newark.

At the first vacancy the title and rank of chief baron of the exchequer will be abolished and the office reduced to a puisne judgeship. By the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act 1877, it was provided that the chairmen of quarter sessions should be called " county court judges and chairmen of quarter sessions " and that their number should be reduced to twenty-one, which was to include the recorders of Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Londonderry and Galway.

Annual sessions of the General Assembly are held, beginning on the second Tuesday in January.

In 1904 the legislature submitted an amendment providing for biennial sessions and it was ratified by a popular vote, but inasmuch as the constitution requires a subsequent ratification by the legislature, the question came up again in the session of 1905.

The judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court and two circuit courts, a court of common pleas having civil jurisdiction, and a court of general sessions having criminal jurisdiction.

The county commissioners of each county have charge of the poor-house of the county, appoint its superintendent, physician and other officials, and report annually to the judge of the Court of General Sessions, who submits this report to the grand jury.

In the Parts of Kesteven the boroughs of Grantham and Stamford have each a separate commission of the peace and separate courts of quarter sessions, and there are 4 petty sessional divisions.

In the Parts of Lindsey the county boroughs of Grimsby and Lincoln have each a separate commission of the peace and a separate court of quarter sessions, while the municipal borough of Louth has a separate commission of the peace, and there are 14 petty sessional divisions.

The first Cortes of the regency in five sessions did really good and substantial work.

The, Local Administration Bill, after being debated for two sessions, passed the lower house on the I3th of February 1909, having at the last moment received the support of the Liberal Seor Moret, though the Radicals as a whole opposed it as gratifying to Seor Camb, the Regionalist leader, and therefore as tending to disintegration.

Recovered the Provenal pos sessions of Ramon Berenguerll.

The state supreme court holds its sessions here for the western district of Tennessee.

The first of these, increasing the pay per day to the members of the legislature and providing for longer sessions,' was declared lost by the official canvassers, but when (1886) the ballots had been recounted by the legislature it was declared adopted.

By a provision unique in 1875, the constitution authorized the legislature to provide that the electors might express their preferences for United States senators; but this was not treated as mandatory on the legislature, and though votes were at times taken (1886, 1894), they were not officially canvassed, nor were any senatorial The amendment increased the pay of members from three dollars to five dollars a day " during their sitting," and provided that sessions should last at least sixty days, and that members should not receive pay " for more than sixty days at any one sitting"; the original constitution had provided that they should " not receive pay for more than forty days at any one session " and had prescribed no minimum length for a session.

But John was anxious that this council should be held in Rome, a city where he alone was master; the few prelates and ambassadors who very slowly gathered there held only a small number of sessions, in which John again condemned the writings of Wycliffe.

The pews of the pope's escape was received at Constance with an extraordinary outburst of rage, and led to the subversive decrees of the 4th and 5th sessions, which proclaimed the superiority of the council over the pope.

Batticaloa is the seat of a government agent and district judge; criminal sessions of the supreme court are also held.

In 1542 Presteign was named as the meeting-place of the county sessions for Radnorshire in conjunction with New Radnor, and it has ever since ranked as the county town.

We managed four positive sessions in the afternoon but only one exposed a time and location.

In New Hampshire, our sessions bordered on simple curiosity; we'd described it as a parlor game, but with each new revelation another level of gravity descended over us like a snow-melt fog.

It won't be like that and I promise after this is over, I'll never involve any of us personally in any future sessions.

The change between sessions 1-5 to sessions 6-10 can seem rather abrupt.

The opportunity program, which lasts a year, includes events, advice sessions, seminars and networking opportunities.

The half-day sessions cover most of this material, in somewhat abbreviated form.

A short while after I went into hospital, the sessions folded, because no-one felt able to drive them along.

Some conferences invite abstracts for seminars and workshops as well as for posters and concurrent sessions.

Basically acoustic sessions from anyone willing who has turned up in time.

In full tilt gentleman adventurer mode now that he has his own label, Jah Wobble is setting up sessions like a demon.

Ashley, who has also been physically aggressive toward staff, kept calm in the sessions.

Sessions featuring ample was good featuring a booming underground.

Small group sessions are used to critically appraise the quality of qualitative research.

It is divided into four two hour Training Sessions each covering a different aspect of GIS.

Dentists routinely used high volume aspirators and were supported by a dental nurse in 11/12 sessions.

Yet there was an unspoken assumption by the economic Fellows that unless I attended their advanced sessions I was just a dilettante.

We also have the use of the main hall for junior winter training and indoor sports hall athletics sessions.

Her sessions have attracted all the big names in this newly awakened field.

Also, the BBC sessions are, like many from the time, the instrumental backing with some new vocals dubbed on.

During the closure we are offering an outreach service to primary schools in inner-London boroughs, INSET sessions, and online teachers ' resources.

Musicians performing at the sessions will receive a small fee and a free brunch!

Chester area hold open sessions for you to attend.

Polkadot - Manchester Music Service Fun Music Sessions for Young Children, classes suitable for 4 year olds and run citywide.

For several of the sessions we included other classmates.

Bungay CC welcomes both boys and girls to training sessions and have qualified coaches to help create better players for the future.

Youth soccer coaches need to bear in mind the physical and mental age of their players when planning their training sessions.

This CD is made up from 2 different sessions but still feels cohesive.

The panel was also impressed with the strong commitment from the top, with senior executives actively taking part in residential sessions.

In the plankton sessions we found copepods with their egg sacs, barnacle larve andsome diatoms under the highest magnification.

I know, cos we get the practice sessions at home!

Maybe cause sessions are fuelled by organic dark chocolate with black currants, the good stuff.

Thereafter, learning comes through working closely day-to-day with experienced colleagues, supported by regular briefings and training sessions.

There will also be informal evening sessions which can be attended by both residential and non-residential delegates.

These sessions provide an opportunity for both lane swimmers and a leisurely dip.

They were both awarded honorary diplomas for best students, based on their presentations in the ' New Talents ' sessions.

When Co eventually disbanded we got together with Jason and George and after a few sessions and gigs Orson was born.

It is the only discrete ICT this term all the rest of the sessions are subject based.

The skills needed for running a herbal dispensary will be covered with practical sessions on the preparation of herbal remedies.

Training sessions can be made more interesting for you and your horse whether you enjoy jumping, dressage, or riding in the countryside.

These weekly family drop-in sessions are an established part of summer at the Gallery.

Student Support Services at the university run drop-in chat or counseling sessions on a wide range of issues.

Indeed, the best ESOL sessions engage and stretch learners to handle complex language in emotionally and intellectually engaging contexts.

Practical guidance will be delivered in workshop sessions and will provide basic instruction in either Greek or Latin epigraphy.

She had the op followed by 25 radiotherapy sessions completed Christmas eve.

We offer sessions for beginners right through to the experienced exerciser along with classes especially for the 50+ .

Believe at this point that Elizabeth SESSIONS mother's forename was Marsha.

The Importance of Music will take the form of two distinct sessions.

The gamelan sessions are convened by the Oxford gamelan sessions are convened by the Oxford Gamelan Society on Wednesday evenings throughout term.

Wednesday morning saw two sessions devoted to plant disease resistance genes, followed by social activities in the afternoon.

A high level steering group is to be set up to take the recommendations forward over the coming sessions.

We've included downloadable handouts to two of our Key Skills training sessions below that you might find extremely useful.

I actually enjoyed rather than endured our sessions - in my view he is a gifted healer.

For example, some sessions will be about fighting against station closures and/or service cuts, along with fare hikes.

Past sessions have covered the Drug Tariff, health & safety, first aid, measuring and fitting hosiery and professional practice issues.

Patients had maintained health gains achieved during NHS hydrotherapy sessions.

The summer term began with two twilight inset sessions for the whole staff team.

Chrissie manages a team of approximately fifty fitness instructors who conduct personal training sessions in people's homes.

Sessions may be invalidated due to policies affecting security or resource usage, or by an application explicitly calling invalidated due to policies affecting security or resource usage, or by an application explicitly calling invalidate.

Later we will take in some of the jazz sessions in local pubs in the riverfront Jazz Festival.

Kayaking From our boathouse we can also run kayaking From our boathouse we can also run kayaking sessions from single, double or inflatable kayaks!

This year promises to build on this success, with high profile keynote addresses and an excellent variety of Study Sessions.

Also in November, they visited Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo for a series of training sessions designed to eliminate legalese.

On English Language, each week during the first year we have lab sessions to teach linguistics over the internet.

There will be opportunities for you to work with physiotherapists from the NHS Trust for practical sessions on gait and human locomotion.

Our ' unwind ' sessions include shiatsu massage, yoga or meditation (click here ).

A professional masseuse took a hands-on approach to the problem by offering stress-busting sessions at Penrith Truck Stop.

Most of our classes use yoga and/or meditation as a way of centering the learner before sessions begin.

There are regular chat sessions hosted by trained peer mentors.

All qualified mentors are required to attend an update annually and are invited to attend one of these sessions.

Practical sessions will cover all areas of measurement including basic metrology, estimating uncertainties and applying corrections.

These sessions were followed by sessions on biotechnology and medical mycology.

Ian Walker, her least favorite nephew, has been given the task of transcribing the sessions likely to prove most lucrative.

Groups failing to turn up for sessions, without prior notification, will be charged half the full cost of the session.

The number of consultant obstetrician sessions on the labor ward varied from 0 to 10 a week, with an average of 2.5.

Planning took place off-screen between sessions but also on-screen.

I offer training both to groups and also one-to-one coaching sessions for senior managers and SMEs.

She offers one-to-one counseling sessions for students who, by their fourth year, have not yet found a place.

As from February 2003 a local optometrist will provide a service from our building initially on a two sessions per week basis.

In addition he undertook a few sessions each week practicing orthodontics at Heybridge and at Clacton until autumn 2001.

The sessions will include communications, customer service, consumer Law and many others.

Turn up for the storytelling sessions and you could win a fantastic fancy dress outfit from Woolworths.

Album ' I Can't Come ' available at Damaged Goods featuring outtakes / demos and sessions.

We've lost virtually two sessions and have roughly 190 overs left.

In 1977 Atlantic funded the sessions for The Gambler but the results were so overblown that it was not released.

Unlike many sessions at the United Nations, this is a forum where most panelists seemed to agree on the issues discussed.

A few short plenary and panel discussion sessions set the scene for in-depth deliberations during a series of breakout groups.

A trainee psychologist saw Miss J regularly, excluding Mrs J from the sessions.

Rel a single & LP on Doolittle recs & rec session for Sessions in Wales.

Planned sessions are essential in a formal mentoring relationship for it to succeed.

In its general congregations and sessions bitter reproaches were often uttered on the same themes.

He still bears the scars of the daily torture sessions.

The aim of this three day course is to provide a comprehensive overview of equine scintigraphy through a mixture of lectures and practical sessions.

We do not have a fully trained youth theater leader to lead the sessions and the group feels very segregated.

Students are advised to attend training sessions which run at the start of each autumn semester.

Would be able to attend weekly sessions at Aston University.

If you would like more information on the chat sessions please contact either Alistair Fyfe or Paul France.

Westminster Libraries organize special activity sessions for all children from birth to four years old.

There are regular weekly teaching sessions attended by all member of the team.

The workshops will be followed up by free one-to-one coaching sessions to help managers introduce the pack into their business.

Following our coaching sessions I am significantly further forward in the achievement of my goals.

Free taster sessions in everything from Indian Ayurveda to Japanese shiatsu will be on offer.

Rest Interval between sessions The energy source being used during the training session is probably the most important factor to consider.

But these sessions are typically very stilted and difficult to manage.