parish council

noun

(in England and, formerly, Wales) the administrative body of a parish See parish

Each of these has as its head an officer called a regedor, and occupies the attention of a junta de parochia, or parish council.

Such committee may consist wholly of members of their own body or of members of the parish council, or partly of members of both.

They may authorize the borrowing of money by a parish council, and they may lend money to a parish council.

The expenses are payable out of the poor rate by the overseers on the precept of the parish council.

My mind became filled with visions of myself as Chairman of the Parish Council, the head man of a contented village.

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