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selectmen
(encz) | selectmen, |
Selectmen
(gcide) | Selectman \Se*lect"man\, n.; pl. Selectmen.
One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New
England States to transact the general public business of the
town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is
usually from three to seven in each town.
[1913 Webster]
The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps,
the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by
the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for
the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name
presently extended throughout New England to municipal
governors. --Palfrey.
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SELECTMEN
(bouvier) | SELECTMEN. The name of certain officers in several of the United States, who
are invested by the statutes of the several states with various powers.
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selectmen
(encz) | selectmen, |
Selectmen
(gcide) | Selectman \Se*lect"man\, n.; pl. Selectmen.
One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New
England States to transact the general public business of the
town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is
usually from three to seven in each town.
[1913 Webster]
The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps,
the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by
the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for
the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name
presently extended throughout New England to municipal
governors. --Palfrey.
[1913 Webster] |
board of selectmen
(wn) | board of selectmen
n 1: a board of officials elected to administer the public
business of a New England town |
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