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36: 263:. Britain appointed two consecutive chief magistrates (William Fitzgibbon in 1850, and John James Hall, 1850-1852) before declaring the islands a crown colony under the Governor of Jamaica, represented locally by two consecutive Presiding Magistrates: Charles Henry Johnes Cuyler, 1852-1855, and Alexander Wilson Moir, 1855-1860. 288:
was since 1 November 1856 governed as a separate territory (subordinated to New South Wales), where on 8 June 1856 the Pitcairn islanders were resettled. The highest colonial authorities were its many consecutive chief magistrates, till its self-government was revoked on 15 January 1897; afterwards,
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on 4 July 1959, this Colony receiving its own Administrator and eventually a Governor. When the first permanent settlements were established, circa 1734, the highest colonial authority was styled Chief Magistrate. There were eight holders of the position until 1898, when the new post of Commissioner
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remarked, "Men of ordinary physique and discretion cannot be Presidents and live, if the strain cannot be somehow relieved. We shall be obliged to always be picking our chief magistrates from among wise and prudent athletes, a small class." Wilson was himself elected President four years later.
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Unlike the previous section, this does not require any political autonomy for the jurisdiction, so there can be additional circumscriptions, even created solely for the administration of justice. It is not uncommon for magistratures to perform additional functions separate from litigation and
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told the 18th Congress, shortly before leaving office in a House report dated February 21, 1825, "By the duties of this office, the great interests of the nation are placed, in their most important branches, under the care of the Chief Magistrate."
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May 1894 - 9 September 1894 Leander Starr Jameson (b. 1853 - d. 1917), who stayed on as the first Administrator of the Rhodesia Protectorate (the 3 May 1895 union of South Zambesia and North Zambesia - present Zambia - as Rhodesia
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was founded by the Black Quakers of the New York and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies. After it was destroyed by Bassa natives in June 1835, it was reestablished the following month as
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in the districts is the senior of the magistrate courts in the judicial districts. Courts of the Chief Judicial Magistrate is the apex body of criminal judiciary in the districts.
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have often overlapped and refer to, as the case may be, to a major political and administrative officer (usually at a subnational or colonial level) or a
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arbitration, rather as a registrar or notary, but as these are not their defining core-business, they are irrelevant in the context of this article.
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and (in various degrees of authority) chief executive. However, the precise meaning depends upon the particular circumstances where it is given.
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is a public official, executive or judicial, whose office is the highest in its class. Historically, the two different meanings of
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settlement, also formed by the New York and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies. Until its 1 April 1839 incorporation into
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as "Chief Magistrate" were common in the early years of U.S. existence, although use of the term is rare today. In 1793,
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If the jurisdiction he or she heads is considered to have statehood (sovereign or not), the official is generally its
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was a separate British crown colony from 21 June 1887 until its 1 December 1897 incorporation into the
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referred to the President as chief magistrate in his first inaugural address in 1861. In 1908,
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was referred to as 'Chief Magistrate' in the state's two major constitutional documents: the
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Chief magistratures in the feudal era (and sometimes beyond) include the following titles:
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were part of the English, and later British, Empire since 18 July 1670. Initially part of
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described himself as his country's "Chief Magistrate" in his second
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Chief magistratures in antiquity include the following titles:
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1893-1 December 1897 Sir Marshall James Clarke (1841-d. 1909)
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protectorates (both had been privately owned by the
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Chief Magistrate
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magistrate
judge
barrister
head of state
Consul
Dictator
Rex
Suffet
Consul
Gonfaloniere
Lord Mayor
mayor
Bürgermeister
provost
Podestà
Presidente del magistrato
Rettore
Landamman
Cayman Islands
Jamaica
crown colony
Bay Islands
Honduras
Port Cresson colony

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