First, the Free States; next, the States and counties of the same State having the fewest relative number of slaves.
The situation is striking, for the Shannon is here a broad and noble stream, and the immediately surrounding country consists of the rich lowlands of its valley, while beyond rise the hills of the counties Clare and Tipperary.
Shannon and the counties of Clare and Tipperary, E.
One of the Heralds' Visitations for the counties of Norfolk or Suffolk would materially assist your Philadelphian correspondent.
The English system, dating as far back as Henry VIII, has been to leave the charge of the poor and all educational institutions, as much as possible, to counties or local bodies or individuals.
These five counties are all that properly come under the name of South California, resting the division on natural and climatic grounds.
He estimates that there were at that time in the counties of Tulare, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego over fifteen thousand Indians who had been connected with the missions in those counties.
The labourer has little else to do but to chop up disused hop-poles into long fagots with a hand-bill--in other counties a bill-hook.
The agriculturists in some southern counties give the boys in spring threepence a dozen for the heads of young birds killed in the nest.
A formidable rebellion broke out in Kent (1450), then, as now, one of the most independent and democratic counties in England.
The only exceptions were certain border counties on the north were war had left little to record save heaps of ruins and ridges of grass-grown graves (S109).
The "Local Government" Act: this gives to counties the management of their local affairs and secures uniformity of method and of administration.
It now espoused the side of Richard, Duke of York, who was believed to be friendly to religious liberty, while the western counties fought for the cause of Lancaster and the Church.
At length the farmers in the eastern counties began to turn their attention to wool growing.
The only exceptions which William made in these carefully restricted grants were the three Counties Palatine,[1] which he created.
The rebellion begun by Tyler and Ball (S250) spread through the southern and eastern counties of England, taking different forms in different districts.
The poor seldom left thecounties in which they were born.
Up to this period all freemen might take part in the election of representatives chosen by the counties to sit in the House of Commons.
Meanwhile other independent counties or principalities further east were gradually spreading downwards.
Galicia, including the twocounties of Porto and of Coimbra, to Garcia.
In this parliament a prayer is preferred against the Oxford scholars, who in vast numbers and armed attacked gentlemen in the counties of Oxford, Bucks, and Berks, and robbed them.
Footnote 96: Query, Are these counties especially mentioned as being more peculiarly Henry's own?
The sheriffs of differentcounties were ordered to buy cattle; and the sheriff of Hampshire was to cause bread to be baked, and ale to be brewed, at Winchester and Southampton, and the parts adjacent, for the use of the army.
The Barnardo homes and institutions have become very numerous, being established in various English counties as well as in London, a few being in Canada.
According to the quantity of the work, so he will appoint the People of one County or of two to come in: and the Governor of the said County or Counties to be Overseer of the Work.
These two Counties I last named, have the pre-eminence of all the rest in the Land.
Next under the Adigars, are the Dissauva's, who are Governours over Provinces and Counties of the Land.
The Land is generally covered with Woods, excepting the Kingdome of Ovuah, and the Counties of Oudipallet, and Dolusbaug, which are naturally somewhat clear of them.
All these Counties are divided each from other by great Woods.
Having more winter rainfall than thecounties south of it, agriculture is profitable in most years.
It is quite unnecessary to emphasize the attractions of Santa Barbara, or the productiveness of the valleys in the counties of Santa Barbara and Ventura.
The transition from the well-planted counties of Los Angeles and Orange is not altogether agreeable to the eye.
The history of the extension of cultivation in the last twenty and especially in the past ten years from the foot-hills of the Sierra Madre in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties southward to San Diego is very curious.
We refer to the question of aid by counties and municipal corporations to railroads.
Counties are, necessarily, a part of the government; their creation and organization are a necessity in the administration of the state government.
Where conflicts have arisen between countiesand municipalities on the one side, and these corporations on the other, the courts have treated these railroad companies as private corporations, and have decided in their favor.
The same would be the result in all the other counties in the state were the manner of taxing railroads so changed as to make no discriminations in their favor.
If one thinks that this is overdrawing the picture, let him examine the condition of those counties and cities that years ago loaned their credit to railroad companies, or subscribed to their capital stock.
By the supreme court of the state of Iowa, it was decided to be constitutional for counties and cities to subscribe stock to railroad companies, and that there was a statute authorizing such subscriptions.
Though the whole state is forbidden to aid in the construction of railroads, by dividing the state into counties, it is no violation of the fundamental law for these counties to aid in their construction.
To Ireland four additional boroughs were allowed, the counties there remained the same.
It tended much to lessen the power of the ministry; both great cities and great counties held meetings to express their want of confidence in the present representation and to ask for a dissolution.
Twenty-three counties and many large towns, in spite of the constant opposition of the Government, sent up petitions like the one agreed to in Yorkshire, demanding a reduction in exorbitant emoluments and the abolition of sinecures.
He proposed to disfranchise thirty-six rotten boroughs, and to give the seventy-two seats thus gained to the counties and to London and Westminster.
In Manchester and the midland counties the riots assumed the form of an attack upon the dissenters, and were so serious as to necessitate the passing of a Riot Act.
James had determined to make a stand behind that river, which separates the counties of Louth and Meath, falling into the sea at Drogheda.
In the counties copyholders and leaseholders were added to the constituencies, and by a clause introduced by the Marquis of Chandos, and carried in opposition to the Government, tenants at will paying a rent of £50 were also enfranchised.
The Pretender, weary of waiting, had taken matters into his own hands, and a leader had already been despatched to raise the northern counties of Scotland.
O'Connell declared that Catholic representatives must be elected for all the counties of Ireland.
They not only elected a large majority of delegates known to be in favor of the Constitution, but a majority of the counties instructed their members to ratify it as speedily as possible, and to do no other act.
In the city, and in the southerncounties generally, it was from the first highly popular.
Belfast, on branches of the Great Northern and the Northern Counties (Midland) railways.
His support of the Chartist movement obliged him to resign his position, but he undertook to edit The Midland Counties Illuminator, a Chartist journal, in 1841.
In June 1841 a large meeting was to be held at Loughborough in connexion with this movement, and Cook was struck with the idea of getting the Midland Counties Railway Company to run a special train from Leicester to the meeting.
The joint-worm, a new enemy of three year's known existence there, has injured every crop, and destroyed many in that and other counties both sides and along the Blue Ridge.
But there is another source of inflammation and pustules which I believe is not uncommon in all the dairy counties in the west of England.
Most of his subjects were found in the counties of Surrey and Sussex, and along the banks of the Thames.
A high heraldic officer, usually one of the kings-at-arms, was sent into all the counties to examine the pedigrees of the landed gentry, with a view of ascertaining whether the arms borne by them were unwarrantably assumed.
The counties were canvassed for these, and they were immediately forwarded.
On the 12th six armed vessels ascended the river, and the counties of Stafford, Prince William, and Fairfax became the "scene of war.
The fortress of Tokaj and the counties of Bereg, Szatmar and Ugocsa were at the same time ceded to Bocskay, with reversion to Austria if he should die childless.
This drew the attention of the voters to him, and in 1859 he was tendered a nomination to the Ohio Senate from the counties of Portage and Summit.
The regiment to which he was assigned was recruited from the same counties which he represented in the State Senate.
It consists of the tax lists of several California countiesbefore and after the application of irrigation.
According to dealers in Sioux City, Iowa, the quality of cattle, shipped from some places in Clay and Yankton Countiessince the introduction of irrigation, has increased twenty-five per cent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
