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"We hate them," said John Bailey, chairman of the town of 850 and owner of Bailey's Town and Country bar.
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Yesterday's New York Law Journal reports, however, that shortly after the suit was filed, the town changed its rules so that printed material can now be distributed if a group first obtains a permit from Town officials.
Archive 2007-07-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007
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Department of Land Affairs will be addressing the workshop on the 22 and 23 November respectively with specific reference to the responsibility of the Department regarding the future of the town and regional planning profession in terms of administering the Act on Town and Regional Planners.
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Liskeard was remarkable for the spring of water round which the town had been built, and which was described by Leland in his _Itinerary_ as "a good conduit in the middle of the Town very plentiful of water to serve the Town."
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Allen, Nathaniel Martin, Moses Tyler, & Thomas Allen, Esq., or a major part of them, be a committee for this town to Correspond with all the other Committees appointed by any Town in this or the neighboring
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Justices ordered their punishment, to be whipped out of town, and demanding of the Mayor to agree to the same, and for refusing, said they would do it of themselves, and signing a paper, the contents whereof was this: To be severely whipped, and sent out of Town as
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When Plutarch held the office of chief magistrate of his native town he performed this ceremony at the Town
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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There's a town I know of, "and here Mr. Twitt began to laugh, --" wheer ye can't 'ave a moniment put up to your dead folk without' subjectin '' the design to the Town
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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The next matter on the warrant of general interest was the appropriation of a small sum of money to purchase some reference books for the town library, which consisted of but a few hundred volumes stowed away in a badly-lighted and poorly-ventilated room on the upper floor of the Town
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883
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Hutchinson, (who are also reported to be factors of the said Company,) were at Milton, and not expected in town 'till Saturday evening, and as they chose to consult them, they could not return an answer to the Town
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