For prefectural and sub-prefectural assemblies the term is four years; for town and district assemblies, six years, with the provision that one-half of the members must be elected every third year.
The prefectural assemblies hold one session of 30 days yearly; the sub-prefectural assemblies, one session of not more than 14 days.
Many of the functions performed by the governor with regard to prefectural assemblies are discharged by a head-man (gun-cho) in the case of sub-prefectural assemblies.
He occupies towards a district assembly the same position that the sub-prefecture head-man holds towards a sub-prefectural assembly.
There is no superior limit of number in the case of a prefectural assembly, but the inferior limit is 30.
Prefectural roads are maintained by a joint contribution from the government and from the particular prefecture, each paying one-half of the sum needed.
On the seventh day from Ta-li we reached the remains of the prefectural city of Ch'u-hsiung, where we were received with marked attention and courtesy at the hands of the local authorities.
The details of the Prefectural examinations are similar to those already described, and the time required is about the same.
Kwei-yang Fu is the provincial capital, and besides this there are eleven prefectural cities in the province.
KIU-KIANG FU, a prefecture andprefectural city in the province of Kiang-si, China.
The provincial capital is Kwei-lin Fu, or City of the Forest of Cinnamon Trees, and there are besides ten prefectural cities.
A specialized function of the prefectural council is the determining of the validity of arrondissement and municipal elections.
When I was a little boy I went one day to theprefectural city.
Appeal from the Hsien court lies to the Fu, or prefectural court, and thence cases may be taken to the provincial judge, who signs death warrants, while there are final courts of appeal at Peking.
At prefectural cities and provincial capitals colleges were maintained at the public expense, and at these institutions a more or less thorough knowledge of the classics might be obtained.
The magistrate is called a Chou- kwan and is responsible directly to a Tao-tai who is an official between the prefectural magistrate or Chih-fu and the Governor.
The plan is to have a university in the capital of each province, with auxiliary prefectural and district colleges and schools and the whole system to culminate in the Imperial University in Peking.
The Shanghai Conference of 1900 voted that missionary agencies should not be multiplied in small places, though that cities of prefectural rank should not be considered the exclusive territory of any one board.
Han-kow, Ich'ang and Shasi are the three open ports of the province, besides which it contains ten other prefectural cities.
The provincial capital is Chang-sha Fu, in addition to which it has eight prefectural cities.
The retreat of Ma Julung left the insurgents free to follow up their successes; and, in the course of 1868, the authority of the emperor had disappeared from every part of the province except the prefectural city of Yunnanfoo.
The loss of the prefectural town would not merely entail serious consequences to the imperialist cause, but he felt it would personally compromise him as the Futai at Pekin.
The composts receiving the four highest awards in each county are allowed to compete with those in other counties for a prefectural prize awarded by another committee.
Our first visit was to the prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station at Nagasaki.
In Japan the taxes are paid quarterly and the combined amount of the national, prefectural and village assessments usually aggregates about ten per cent of the government valuation placed on the land.
They were, however, few in number, whereas the miyatsuko were numerous, and this comparison probably furnishes a tolerably just basis for estimating the respective prevalence of the prefectural and the feudal systems.
But, on the other hand, the local revenues continued to pass through the hands of the governors, and in the same hands remained the control of the samurai and the right of appointing and dismissing prefectural officials.
The enjoyment of the franchise depends upon a property qualification which, in the case of prefectural and county assemblies, is an annual payment of direct national taxes to the amount of three yen (6s.
So Nishida leads the way to the Kencho, or Prefectural office, situated in another foreign-looking edifice across the street.
Since it belongs to the same prefectural district as Izumo, each new governor of Shimane-Ken is supposed to pay one visit to Oki after his inauguration; and the chief of police of the province sometimes goes there upon a tour of inspection.
This being the case, the prefectural finance actually concerns the future of the country and the people.
Therefore, beginning from 1939, the Ministry introduced the auditing of prefectural finance.
Auditing prefectural [hsien] finance: A prefecture, on the authority of Dr.
The maximum of accommodation of the Prefectural Normal Schools, together with the numbers of the students to be trained therein, is determined by an ordinance of the central Government, and is made obligatory upon the Prefectures.
Teachers thus trained in Prefectural Normal Schools become teachers of all elementary schools.
I met a fine ex-daimyo, who after the Restoration had served as a prefectural governor.
At Sendai it was pleasant to see a prefectural office--or most of it--housed in a Japanese building instead of a dreadful edifice "in Western style.
Snow-shoes were shown among the products of the island at the prefectural exhibition.
I have been received by more than one prefectural governor at eight in the morning.
The gathering was held in a room belonging to the town library in the prefectural grounds, but neither the Governor nor the mayor was present.
On the mainland I also met high officials and enthusiastic prefectural governors who dreamed dreams of sheep farming in Old Japan, where land is costly, farms small, agriculture intensive, grazing ground to seek, and farmland necessarily damp.
I was also helped by county and prefectural agricultural officials who, having learnt of my movements, were kind enough to join me in the train for an hour or so.
I also went to the prefectural experiment station and studied fruit growing and my spirit was much expanded.
I had called on him a few days before in his prefectural capital.
However, it seems that one is still bound to pay local and prefectural taxes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefectural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
