Roger, dressed as the Mayor in his mother's red flannel kimono banded with white stripes to which he had attached tiny black tails to give the effect of ermine, stalked in first.
Almost in tears the boy limped from the stage followed slowly byMayor and Corporation and citizens while Dorothy's clear voice took up the tale.
After the Mayor and Corporation came a body of the townspeople.
THE MAYOR addressed them as they passed out; "Go and get long poles, Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
Under a shady tree outside the town the mayor and landdrost tendered their submission and two large silver keys.
The women screamed, the mayor and landdrost rushed forward in the hopes of averting bloodshed.
The Chief of Police, the Mayor and the Governor of the State were given places of honor at the head of the procession.
Furthermore, he offered to prove that when Craft returned, the lights were again turned on and the city electrician, his assistant and the Mayor of Centralia were in the building with the door again locked.
Kaiser Uhlman has more influence than the city mayorand more power than the police force.
In Seattle, Washington, an injunction was obtained restraining the mayor from closing down the new Union hall in that city under the new law.
What happened then the Mayor and Chief of Police probably could not have stopped even had the Governor himself ordered them to do so.
The junior alderman immediately set out with one of the four syndics, and the mayor sent to his house to order every thing proper for the festival.
All that the mayor got by this business was, that his adversary, the alderman, lost the use of his limbs, and never again took his seat in the council.
The mayor scoffed at the idea of giving four hundred gold guilders for a thing which the day before they might, in all probability, have had for one hundred; but his jeers and his scoffs availed nothing.
The mayor remained in his cabinet almost petrified.
Faustus glided up immediately, and entered a chamber, where he found the mayoress: he flew to her, and created the mayor a knight of the Holy Roman Empire.
The rumour was immediately spread, by a thousand channels, through all Frankfort; and the arrival of the distinguished stranger was soon known, from the sentinel at the city-gate to his most worshipful the mayor himself.
One evening the mayor assured him that the council, on their next day of meeting, would come to a determination, by virtue of which the assembled members would most probably pay down the sum for the Bible.
It is known that for about twenty years he was alcalde or mayor at the Molares on the outskirts of Utrera,--an important local functionary, a practical man interested in public affairs.
At the dinner given by Consul General Miller at Yokohama, Governor Sufu andMayor Ichihara were present.
Lord Mayor Harrington of Dublin, Lord Mayor Dixon of Belfast and Lord Provost Primrose of Glasgow were all alive to the importance of their work, and seemed to make the discharge of their duties their chief concern.
While at Tokyo I visited the city hall, at the invitation of the mayor and city council.
At Manila a public dinner was given by a number of representative Filipinos, headed by Mayor Roxas, at which speeches were made by Filipinos distinguished in official and professional life.
While writing this article, I am in receipt of information that Mayor Ozaki has secured for me one of the little camp stools above referred to and has had made for me a duplicate of the other.
Mr. Black, recently mayor of Nottingham, is a very successful lace manufacturer, and yet he seemed as much concerned about the affairs of the city as about the details of his own business.
Mayor Ozaki, the presiding officer, escorted Admiral Togo to a raised platform, and there the two took seats on little camp stools some ten feet apart, facing each other, with their sides to the audience and to those on the stand.
While there Mayor Ozaki informed me that he, in company with the mayors of the other cities, would tender Admiral Togo a reception on the following Tuesday, and invited me to be present.
After the distinguished guest had partaken of these refreshments, the mayor arose and read an address of welcome.
Illustration: YUKIO OZAKI--MAYOR OF TOKYO] At the park I luckily fell in with some of the councilmen whom I had met before and they took me in hand.
When he sat down the mayor proposed three times three banzais, and they were given with a will by the enormous crowd that stood in the open place before the stand.
The lord mayor of Belfast, Sir Daniel Dixon, gave us a history of the municipal undertakings and extended to us every possible courtesy.
Thence we took coach for the City to Guildhall, where the Hall was full of people expecting Monk and Lord Mayor to come thither, and all very joyfull.
And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered him their own houses for himself and his officers; and that his soldiers would lack for nothing.
Then followed a parley: themayor let himself down to the Hussites by means of a coarse tilt,[7] that he might negotiate with them whether the citizens should be allowed to go free.
Whilst they thus held converse together, the mayoragreed with the citizens on what terms they would surrender.
The Mayor Fontenay waited at the gates, and presented the keys.
The mayor of this town presented to the First Consul a corporal who had made the campaign of Italy (his name was, I think, Roussel), and who had received a sword of honor as a reward for his brave conduct at Marengo.
The evening on which the Emperor was expected, the mayor and his associates, armed with the necessary harangue, passed a part of the night at the foot of the monument.
Their Majesties did not notice the rain at first, protected as they were by the dais, and the Emperor being engaged in conversation with the mayor of the town of Lyons.
The municipal authorities had a delightful fete prepared, which the First Consul found much to his taste, and upon which he complimented the prefect and the mayor on several different occasions.
The mayor of Saint-Cloud was Monsieur Barre, a well informed man, with a very kind heart.
Monsieur Ledier, Mayor of Ivry, accompanied the First Consul on this excursion; and the First Consul held a long conversation with him, in which he appeared to be agreeably impressed.
The Emperor, before leaving Brienne to return to Fontainebleau, required the mayor to give him a written account of the most pressing needs of the commune, and left on his departure a considerable sum for the poor and the hospitals.
The mayor of the town left nothing undone towards a suitable reception, and Abbeville was magnificent on that day.
He received all petitions most graciously, and before leaving presented to the mayor of the city a scarf of honor, and to the legate of the Pope a handsome snuff-box ornamented with his likeness.
A governing charter, under the title of mayor and burgesses, was given by James II.
The lord-mayor and sheriffs supplied him with wine, and Lord Holland, his justice in Eyre, with venison.
On this being proclaimed at Canterbury, just previous to the ensuing Christmas, and the mayor directing a market to be kept on that day, a serious disturbance took place, wherein many were severely hurt.
The City of London had its waits, who attended the Lord Mayor on public occasions, such as Lord Mayor’s day, and on public feasts, and great dinners.
Then Meilhan asked the Mayor to draw up for him a specimen of the document necessary for creating the annuity.
As for what he had said to the Mayorabout drawing his first payment of the pension, he had done it because he was a bit conscience-stricken over fabricating the deed.
The Mayor also said that he had spoken to Meilhan of his son's letter well before the time when the accused mentioned the annuity to him and asked for a draft of the assignment.
It was only a few days after Lacoste's death that Meilhan spoke to the Mayor about the Castera note.
But, though he was Mayor of Auray, he did nothing more about his mother-in-law's death.
Meilhan showed the Mayor the widow's document, and begged him to read it to see if it was in proper form.
On the arrival of the civil functionaries, the Mayor of Saint-Leu and a Justice of the Peace from Enghien, the body was taken down and put on the bed.
Denial was useless, since he had asked the Mayor to make a draft for him, and since he had shown that functionary the deed signed by Mme Lacoste.
The intervention of the Mayor was ineffective in bringing about a reconciliation between Meilhan and Lescure.
Not very many days after the death of Lacoste Meilhan met the Mayor of Riguepeu, M.
The Mayor replied that in Meilhan's place he would keep the Castera note and be content with the 400 annuity.
The Mayor has three choices: (1) He may approve the ordinance by signing it; it then becomes operative.
Every city has a mayorwho is the chief executive and who is elected by the people for a four-year term.
Every town has a Council and a Mayor and in the large towns, usually a Town Manager.
A mayor is elected from council membership but he has very limited powers.
If, however, during these five days, either the term of office of the Mayoror the term of office of the members of the city council ends, the ordinance is not passed but is considered "killed.
The chief duties of a mayor usually include the following: a.
Depending upon the form of city government adopted, the mayor may be essentially a figurehead or a key official.
Under this form, the Council and the Mayor are elected by the qualified voters.
His band killed five people including the mayor of Harper's Ferry and a free Negro porter of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Like the Governor of the state, the Mayor can veto a particular item or more than one item in an appropriation ordinance or resolution without affecting the rest of the resolution or ordinance.
The City Council usually elects its own chairman from among its own membership; this chairman automatically becomes the Mayor of the city.
Every resolution or ordinance must be presented to the Mayorof a city after it has been passed by the City Council.
He may do nothing about the ordinance; after five days have passed, Sundays excepted, if the Mayor is still in office and the term of office of the members of the city council has not expired, it automatically is passed.
The space was measured up by the town mayor and the battalion leader and the proper number of men assigned to each building.
Did you know of theMayor of Paris being at the Tuileries?
When Franklin first established itself as a town, Judge Jones was elected mayorand Ben Dowel marshal.
As the mayor went in the door was shut and I was crowded outside with the mob.
I always believed that Mayor Wells would have died before he would have given way to the mob of his own free will.
Soon Mayor Wells appeared on the balcony of the court house.
Captain Burt sent word to Mayor Wells asking for instructions.
The mayorcommanded the crowd to disperse and leave the entrance clear.
Mayor Wells soon appeared on the ground and managed to work his way through the crowd and get into the door of the polling room.
As we saw this violent move against the mayor we started through the crowd, George taking the lead.
We have reason to know that the Lord Mayor of London has not slept a wink since Saturday, and his lady has not smiled, according to an authority on which we are accustomed to rely, since Thursday fortnight.
We have been favoured by the transmission of the following singular correspondence by the new Mayor of Dublin's private secretary.
Hobler replied that the loss of the title was not by the late Lord Mayor but by the late Prince of Wales.
They said that the people intended on that day to set fire to Guildhall, and meant to roast the Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
SIR,--The intense interest created in the bosoms of mankind in general by the graphic account of your splendid appearance and astounding performance of the arduous character of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, induces Mr. W.
Daniel O'Connell's opinions upon the repeal of the union, now that he is Lord Mayor of Dublin: to be sold without reserve to the highest bidder.
Nevertheless, after Mayor Harrison had gone, Captain Bonfield sent one hundred and seventy-six policemen to march upon the little crowd that remained.
Mayor Henon, with an escort of national bourgeois guards, reentered the Hotel de Ville, he met Bakounin in the hall of the Pas-Perdus.
The mayor of the city went in person to hear the addresses, and later testified that he had reported to Captain Bonfield, at the nearest police station, that "nothing had occurred nor was likely to occur to require interference.
The mayor immediately ordered his companions to take him in custody and to confine him at once in an underground hiding-place.
Sidenote: Letter of a London curate to the Mayor of Plymouth.
The commissioners came with the lord mayor for the oath, and it was refused.
Letter of Thomas Dorset to the Mayor of Plymouth: Suppression of the Monasteries, p.
He was surprised just before he left for the east to find that he was to be nominated for mayor of New York, at the early age of twenty-eight.
In 1886 he was nominated for mayor of New York City, but he lost.
Cleveland, after being mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York, was elected President twice, though not in succession.
Some of the county and city officials requested the mayor not to permit the trial to proceed, because if he did there would certainly be an outbreak.
The mayor and the council didn't see but what that was a square deal, so they called a special meeting right there; and in half an hour we had the whole thing under way.
The Knoxville library for colored people was, I believe, opened by the mayor some years ago, and the city felt proud of what it had done.
A contrast this, to the heroic behavior of Mayor Smith of Omaha!
When the Mayor read it, he burst out a-laughing, and says that no such Thieves' Flash must be sent to the Foot of the Throne.
He was to be met at Temple Bar by the Mayor and Aldermen, and to be escorted towards Cheapside by those city Trainbands which had done such execution on the Parliament side during the wars, and by the Companies with their Livery banners.
