...be erected. In a part of Truro called High Cross, a theatre and an assembly room have been erected. The government of the town is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twenty capital burgesses. Of its elective franchise we have already spoken under the article Cornish...

...carried to the Market Place, and built the Conduit. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. By the Corporation Reform Act, the government of the town is vested in a Mayor, four Aldermen, and twelve Councillors. Its boundaries are to remain as heretofore till altered by Act of Parliament. The town is not divided...

...the government, under the title of ' the mayor and burgesses of Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall,' is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors. The mayor, late mayor, and recorder, are justices of the peace, ex officio, and, at Easter and Michaelmas, hold...

...river, from which large quantities have been raised from time immemorial. By the Municipal Reform Act, the government of the town is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors. There ivas formerly a civil court here for plaints and actions, but it has fallen out of custom. There...

...self-elected corporation, without any magisterial authority ; but by the Municipal Corporations Act the government of the town is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors. A county petty session is held at the George Hotel on the second Monday in every month, and the borough...

...returned two members to the House of Commons, from a very early period, up to the reign of Edward III. The government of the town is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and 12 councillors. Population of town in 18(51, 3137; in 1871, 3640. Area of par. 4780 ac. — (Lftcal...