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Town Clerk
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Municipal corporation
The aldermen and councillors serve gratuitously. The council thus constituted manages the corporate property, having as officers a 'town clerk,' a 'treasurer,' and such other offices as the council think necessary. It has the control of the borough
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Quamdiu se bene gesserit
of abusing them-the opposite clause being durante bene placito (during the pleasure of the grantor), as that of town clerk, which office is held during the pleasure of the town council.
Registration of electors
registration officer for each parliamentary borough or county. This officer is the clerk of the county or the town clerk (see Part II. of the Act, ss 11 et seq.). See (as amended 12 & 13 Geo. 5,
Militia
or standing army, being the inhabitants, or, as they have been sometimes called, the trained bands of a town or county, who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see … be selected by ballot (23 & 24 Vict. c. 120, s. 7), with exceptions for peers, clergymen, articled clerks, officers on half pay, apprentices, poor men having more than one child born in wedlock and other persons
Assize, or assise
treasons, felonies, etc. This is the largest commission. (2) Of gaol delivery, directed to the judges and the clerk of assize or associate, empowering them to try every prisoner in the gaol committed for any offence whatsoever, … causes. Undefended causes and certain others brought or defended by poor persons may be tried at certain circuit towns. See R. S.C., Ord. XXXVIA., r. 8. The holding of Winter and Spring Assizes is regulated by Orders
Insurance
business of insuring; and to them likewise are transmitted the orders for insurance from the out-puts and manufacturing towns. The common form of policy is 'Lloyd's Policy,' and it has been twice scheduled to statutes, viz., to … risks at sea, or losses by fire, death, or accident; but losses by burglary or by default of clerks, and, in fact, almost all kinds of risk, chance and liability, are now commonly insured against. Insurances are
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