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	LOCAL - Online Information article about LOCAL
		half of the whole number of aldermen go out of office, and their places are filled by election, which is conducted by means of voting papers.
		The third class of boroughs comprises those which have a separate court of quarter sessions, but had according to the census of 1881 a population of less than Io,000.
		All such boroughs form part of the county for the purposes of pauper lunatics, analysts, reformatory and industrial schools, fish conservancy, explosives, and, of course, the purposes for which the larger quarter sessions boroughs also form part of the county, such as main roads, and are assessed to county rate accordingly.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LOCAL.html (10017 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Corporation of London
		The City Corporation is run by the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the Court of Common Council.
		The sole qualification for the office is that Aldermen must be Freemen of the City.
		Aldermen are ex officio Justices of the Peace.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Corporation_of_London (853 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: London
		In 1189 the court of aldermen decreed that in future houses should be built of stone instead of wood so as to check the disastrous fires, but wooden houses continued to be built, though by this time they were plastered and whitewashed.
		The aldermen were assisted by common councillors, who were first appointed in the reign of Edward I, and in 1384 they were formed into the common council.
		For the special requirements of London there is the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, the Court of Quarter Sessions held at Newington and Clerkenwell, the Police Courts presided over by metropolitan police magistrates, and for civil causes of minor importance the County Courts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09341a.htm (9579 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Tuesday 17 March 1662/63
		Margaret’s Hill in Southwark, where the judge of the Admiralty came, and the rest of the Doctors of the Civill law, and some other Commissioners, whose Commission of Oyer and Terminer was read, and then the charge, given by Dr.
		Exton, which methought was somewhat dull, though he would seem to intend it to be very rhetoricall, saying that justice had two wings, one of which spread itself over the land, and the other over the water, which was this Admiralty Court.
		For an interesting description and discussion of the changing case load and jurisdiction of the London Admiralty Court in the C 17th.
	www.pepysdiary.com /archive/1663/03/17 (1532 words)

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