alcaldes

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of alcalde.
  alcalde

  noun

  a mayor having judicial powers.

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alcaldes

Justice was administered in the cities and in the country by judges of the first instance and by alcaldes.

From Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... by Arthur D. Hall

This city, made 518nearly a year ago into a Federal district, has a governor and a sufficient number of alcaldes and other subalterns to maintain order and police.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

A new system of choosing alcaldes was also decreed.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Mas advocates strenuously the prohibition of trade granted to alcaldes and an extension of their term of office.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

A very important person, General Esteban Huertas, commander of the troops in Panama, was easily enrolled, as were also alcaldes, chiefs of police, and other important officials.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills

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