It was headed by the alcalde with his staff of office, who was followed by his alguacils and mayores, each carrying a long white stick.
This was quite possible, as the country was in a disturbed state; but I had my suspicions, and talked the matter over with the Alcalde and Niña Chica.
The schoolmaster had evidently established himself as a power in the village, for the Alcalde was immovable, and to all our united supplications that he should give up the key merely replied that "it was more than his place was worth.
At Comitan, the last village before reaching the Honduras frontier, the Alcalde stopped us and demanded Gorgonio's passport.
Two days were passed in hunting up mozos to carry our baggage, and it was only owing to the fear of the wrath of the Alcalde and the terrors of the cárcel that they consented to make the journey.
The Alcalde allotted us a room in the convento, which had been swept and garnished with a fresh carpet of pine-needles in expectation of the arrival of the Jefe Político of the Department of Quiché.
This staff was all-important to the dignity of an alcalde or alguacil.
This, however, was done in a regular and systematic order, the Alcalde of the village pointing out such of the houses as were to be doomed to the fire, and the troops taking no more than was absolutely necessary.
When we got in, our commissary immediately made a requisition to the Alcalde of the town, to provide bread for the two brigades, as we began to be in most fearful want.
It is the residence of the alcalde mayor and several public functionaries.
She has never been married and the Alcalde says, "Her conduct in prison has been very good.
This alcalde of the reduced Macos quitted the village of Atures for a few months every year, to live in the plantations which he possessed in the midst of the forests near the hamlet of the independent Macos.
Alcalde should avoid giving offence to a dozen, by selecting one to confer the favour of our company upon.
Nuñez once in his power, the spiteful governor lost no time in urging the alcalde mayor, Espinosa, to proceed against the Adelantado with the utmost rigour of the law.
With one expedition sent out by Pedrarias under the Alcalde Mayor Espinosa, there was a Franciscan monk named San Roman.
Proceeding according to the forms of law, he summoned the Bachelor to stand his trial on the charge of having usurped the powers of alcalde mayor beyond the territories under the jurisdiction of Ojeda.
On his arrival, after having put up his cavallejo or little pony at a posada, he proceeded to the alcalde for the purpose of asking permission to sell the books, which that dignitary immediately granted.
But," said the alcalde of Finisterra, "what is to be done with the other fellow?
On its being served up the alcalde bade me farewell, having first demanded whether he could in any way forward my plans.
The principal personage was a surly ill-tempered- looking fellow of about thirty-five, whom eventually I discovered to be the alcalde of Finisterra, and lord of the house in which we now were.
Presently arrived the handmaid of the alcalde with a basket, which she took into the kitchen, where she prepared an excellent supper for her master's friend.
The alcalde looked around him in triumph, as if he had made some notable discovery.
Poor Victoriano flew into a violent rage, and after calling the alcalde several very uncivil names, he pulled the soga from his bags, flung it at his head, and told him to take it home and use it for his own neck.
They were clothed in blankets, and arranged in a row before a blind Indian, who understood their dialect, and was assisted by an alcalde to keep order.
The original sentence probably denied to Zendera the privilege of holding the office of alcalde mayor only, since he occupied the post of regidor of the city of Manila, pending the appeal of his case to the Council of the Indies.
An alcaldemayor or an alcalde de partido might try cases on appeal from these.
The case had first been tried before the proper military judge, but it was referred on appeal to a tribunal of which an alcaldeordinario of the city was a member.
However, an oidor was usually delegated to inspect the work of the alcalde ordinario.
He was ordered to advise the alcalde of the Parian in legal matters pertaining to them, and the alcalde was to take no important steps without the advice and assistance of the fiscal.
In some of the early Spanish colonies the alcalde was elected by his fellow-townsmen.
Hence there could be no reason for their refusal to serve with an alcalde ordinario.
The alcalde ordinario, before whom suit had been brought in first instance, cancelled the contract, and the Chinese appealed to the audiencia.
This tax was to be collected by the cabecilla of the Chinese, a sort of local leader, subject to the alcalde of the Parian.
With him I gave sentence, confirming the said election of alcalde as according to law.
With the permission of the lord provisor and of the alcalde Don Pedro Pantoja de Ayala.
Whatever the religious effect by their efforts is destroyed easily by an alcalde or a commandant for his own private conveniences.
Having received that petition and proposal of the Indians, the said alcalde and commandant informed the governor of these islands, then the master-of-camp, Don Manuel de Leon.
In 1779 an alcalde and regidore were chosen from the natives to assist in the administration of justice.
The padre found it necessary to write a sharp letter to the alcalde of San José on the grog-shops of that pueblo, which encouraged drinking among his Indians to such extent that they were completely demoralized.
The insurgents entered his house, and their greed satisfied itself on what they found nearest to their hands, although they had not the luck to find three thousand pesos in silver which the alcalde possessed.
Two years afterward, promotion came to him, the post of alcalde for criminal cases in [the Audiencia of] Mejico; but he died at the height of the voyage.
An appointment came for Don Francisco Montemayor y Mansilla as alcalde for criminal cases in Mejico; he sailed for that country in the second year, with his son, Don Felipe Mansilla Prado, and died on the voyage.
He completed his six years' term as auditor of Filipinas, and embarked for Mejico, where he was for many years alcalde of criminal cases for that city, with the same reputation for integrity and rectitude.
But as Old Man Enright is made alcalde tharby, with Jack Moore marshal, the jolt is not severe nor the change so full of notice.
It may be supposed that I took good care not to comply at once with this invitation, and attempted to demonstrate to the alcalde that the exceptional case in which I stood nowise warranted such a procession.
The disappointed alcaldewas not long in leaving the room.
The person thus caught acting so much like a vagabond gave a shrill whistle, and, pushing the alcalde aside, ran down a neighboring lane.
I thought it best, then, to finish the debate by whispering to the alcalde my address.
Unhappily, the alcalde was, like all his class, gifted with strong obstinacy, and replied to all my arguments only by insisting on the respect due to custom.
But these feelings cooled down almost immediately; and the alcaldeadvising me to compound with the man, I was glad to be let off for a fifth part of the sum demanded by the lamplighter.
You saw with what consideration the alcalde treated me.
I confess that, placed between the justice of the alcalde and the offensive protection of Perico, I hesitated an instant.
To avoid the imprisonment which he saw impending over us, he resolved to appeal to the religious feelings of the alcalde and his followers, of which they had just given such striking proofs.
The Indian who seemed to be the chief of the party advanced, and told us that, as our noisy arrival had disturbed the peace of the village, the alcalde wished to see us without delay.
That circumstance did not check the young man's eagerness to make his deposition before the alcaldeof the nearest village; but, though a pursuit was set on foot, it was unsuccessful.
If the assassin were not discovered the alcalde must pay the penalty of the crime with his own life.
The alcalde hanged the king in effigy and invited him to the spectacle.
Next day he summoned the Alcalde of Seville to his presence and asked for news of the town.
He was chaplain on the frigate Congress, and was appointed alcalde after Monterey was captured.
Alcalde Colton, waving his hands in despair at the mention of it.
According to that, it is not I who ought to be the Alcalde of Aldeire, but the man who was Alcalde a year ago, at the time of the proclamation of Riego.
The constable of the court, who had under his command a clerk and twenty foot-soldiers, meantime told the Alcalde the causes of and reasons for this noisy arrest.
But you ought to be ashamed to work like a laborer, when you are the richest man in the town, and Alcalde into the bargain.
The first Alcaldeof Marysville was the young lawyer already mentioned, Stephen J.
I base that judgment," said the Alcalde with solemnity, "on the oldest law in the world, on the law of Moses.
But another Alcalde who happened to be present intervened.
Thus, on one occasion the Alcalde of Santa Cruz had before him a man who was found guilty of shaving the hair from the tail of a fine American horse, and the sentence of the court was that the criminal should have his own head shaved.
I am Alcalde of Santa Cruz, and will with great pleasure make you man and wife.
The Alcalde of Placerville very properly refused to marry a certain man and woman, because the woman was already married to a man who had been absent for three months.
The mule-drivers found the Alcalde working in the bottom of a shaft which he was sinking.
The Alcalde (Al Cadi) was originally a Spanish official, corresponding in many respects with our Justice of the Peace.
In the course of litigation on behalf of his wife, Terry bitterly resented certain action taken by Mr. Justice Field of the Supreme Court of the United States,--the same Field who began his judicial career as Alcalde of Marysville.
There is no need of an orphan asylum in California," wrote the American Alcaldeat Monterey.
And yet, so far as was possible, Alcalde Field observed the ancient forms with true Anglo-Saxon scrupulosity.
He had fifteen of his own;" and when the Alcalde questioned the prudence of his offer, the Spaniard replied, "The hen that has twenty chickens scratches no harder than the hen that has one.
When Roldan resumed his office of alcalde mayor, or chief judge, he displayed all the arrogance to be expected from one who had intruded himself into power by profligate means.
Fourthly, that he should be reinstated in his office of alcalde mayor, or chief judge.
Riquelme, Pedro, makes his house the headquarters of the rebels at Hispaniola; made Alcalde by Roldan: joins in a conspiracy with Adrian de Moxica; is taken.
When Carvajal arrived, he found the veteran Ballester actually besieged in his fortress of Conception by Roldan, under pretext of claiming, in his official character of alcalde mayor, a culprit who had taken refuge there from justice.
The able manner in which he acquitted himself in this situation, and the persuasion of his great fidelity and gratitude, induced Columbus, on departing for Spain, to appoint him alcalde mayor, or chief judge of the island.
The Adelantado ordered him to surrender his staff of office, as alcalde mayor, and to submit peaceably to superior authority.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alcalde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
