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AYUNTAMIENTO , the See also:Spanish name for the See also:district over which a See also:town See also:council has administrative authority; it is used also for a town council, and for the town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall. The word is de-rived from the Latin adjungere, and originally meant " See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting." In some parts of See also:Spain and in Spanish See also:America the town council was called the cabildo or See also:chapter, from the Latin capitulum. The ayuntamiento consisted of the See also:official members, and of regidores or regulators, who were chosen in varying proportions from the " hidalgos " or nobles (hijos de algo, sons of somebody) and the " pecheros," or commoners, who paid the pecho, or See also:personal tax; pecho (See also:Lat. pectus) is in Spanish the See also:breast, and then by See also:extension the See also:person. The regidores of the ayuntamientos, or See also:lay cabildos, were checked by the royal See also:judge or corregidor, who was in fact the permanent chairman or See also:president. The distinction between See also:hidalgo and pechero has been abolished in See also:modern Spain, but the See also:powers and the constitution of ayuntamientos have been subject to many modifications.
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