ayuntamiento
Americannoun
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ayuntamientos
plural
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a municipal government.
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a town hall or city hall.
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The ayuntamiento of Monterey, in accordance with the decree, chose a commissioner for each of the seven Missions of the district.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James
Barcelona and Malaga were stirring; the ayuntamiento made up its mind that Cadiz should be as good as its neighbours and show vigour too.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
They turned to greet Sam Brannan, now a candidate for the ayuntamiento or town council.
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
The ayuntamiento which came into power with the Republic was Federal.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
Almost immediately he organized its governing assembly, or ayuntamiento.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
The press was muzzled, and the local ayuntamientos were deprived of their rights, and became merely the means for the collection and distribution of the funds of the municipalities.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
In Mexico the ayuntamientos were under the most rigid responsibility to see that free children born of slaves received the best education that could be given them.
From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson
The de facto government was accepted as a necessity, and under its direction "alcaldes" and "ayuntamientos" were elected.
From Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte
He wrote to various friends in Madrid to exert themselves for the suspension of the unfriendly ayuntamientos above mentioned.
From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés
The distinction between hidalgo and pechero has been abolished in modern Spain, but the powers and the constitution of ayuntamientos have been subject to many modifications.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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