• Town commissioners were elected local government bodies that existed in urban areas in Ireland from the 19th century until 2002. Larger towns with commissioners...
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  • Town commissioners were governing bodies in smaller towns in Ireland from 1828 to 2001. Town commissioners may also refer to: Town commissioners (Isle...
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    1855, 15 commissioners were elected to the new town commissioners. Projects undertaken by the commissioners included the development of a town park in...
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    village districts. The powers of Parish Commissioners are somewhat less than those of Village Commissioners. In 1938 the Local Government Board was empowered...
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  • borough with a corporation. Below that were towns with town commissioners, administered under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854. Under the Local...
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  • government, often with characteristics of other branches of government: Town commissioners, elected local government bodies established in urban areas in Ireland...
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    (Ireland) Act 1840, with the town commissioners as its successor. In 1853, 24 town commissioners were appointed under the Galway Town Improvement Act 1853 (16...
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  • town. The county commissioners may choose for the town advisory board to be elected by town residents, or appointed by the commissioners. In either case...
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    did not have commissioners under the 1828 Act, should have a board of municipal commissioners established. In most cases, the commissioners appointed under...
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    Dudley (redirect from Dudley town centre)
    of the Dudley Town Act 1791 (31 Geo. 3. c. 79), was governed by the Court Leet of the Lords of Dudley. From 1791, the Town Commissioners were the main...
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    by town commissioners. Roscommon town commissioners were abolished in 1927. After becoming a town council in 2002, in common with all other town councils...
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  • January 2002 the existing urban district councils and boards of town commissioners became town councils. The city of Kilkenny, along with the four boroughs...
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    the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the State of Fairs and Markets in Ireland. House of Lords. 1855. "Minute books of the Town Commissioners" (PDF)...
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    some restrictions on political use that he had sought to impose, the town commissioners purchased the building in 1866. In the early-1870s, a four-stage clock...
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  • with restricted powers might be called lighting commissioners, paving commissioners, police commissioners, etc. Older urban government forms included the...
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    the township of Rathmines appointed town commissioners in 1847. The town commissioners established their first town hall at 71 Rathmines Road but, after...
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    Act 1840 and the building lay empty until town commissioners were appointed in 1843. The town commissioners decided to demolish the old market house and...
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  • Birmingham Town Police, and the existing police force of the street commissioners was disbanded. The 1801 act gave the street commissioners authority to...
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    election commissioners who were appointed to the commission for the first time on 16 October 1989. On 1 January 1990, the post of election commissioners were...
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    Peel, Isle of Man (category Towns in the Isle of Man)
    Town Commissioners". Peel Town Commissioners. Archived from the original on 21 December 2003. Retrieved 3 November 2008. "Who are the Commissioners?"...
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    Hall had become dilapidated, and the town commissioners decided to commission a new building to be known as the "Town Hall": the site they selected in the...
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    mid-19th century and which the town commissioners decided to demolish and replace with a new building. The second town hall was designed in the Renaissance...
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    at a cost of £6,359 and was completed in time for a meeting of the town commissioners on 19 May 1884. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of...
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    acquired by the newly-formed town commissioners in 1854. It was converted into a town hall and offices for the town commissioners in 1861, and a distinctive...
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    Airport. The town is administered at a local level by Clare County Council. In 1982, the town was granted local government under town commissioners. In 2002...
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    Bel Air, Maryland (category Towns in Maryland)
    county commissioners decided to change its name to the more appealing "Belle Aire." In his deeds, Scott dropped one letter, renaming the town, "Bell Aire...
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    In the late 19th century the town commissioners, who had been appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854...
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    By 1864, the old market house had become very dilapidated, and the town commissioners agreed to rebuild it. The rebuilding was undertaken to a design by...
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  • jurisdictions. In 2002, 49 urban district councils and 26 town commissioners were redesignated as 75 town councils as a tier of local government below the county...
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