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Topic: Prothonotary


  
  Prothonotary Warbler
Prothonotary Warblers are frequently parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird.
Prothonotary Warblers migrate to parts of Central and South America and the West Indies.
Prothonotaries roost communally on the wintering ground, and pair bonds between males and females persist.
www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /prothonotary_warbler_info.htm   (870 words)

  
 Information and History
The Prothonotary has a tremendous responsibility in the operation of the office and rightfully should be an elective official by the choice of the electorate.
Prothonotary Elizabeth Fair and her staff automated the office in January, 1994 as she stated was necessary in order to maintain the large volume of documents.
Prothonotary Fair also was the first to implement imaging technology in the Prothonotary's Office which allows quick access to documents and preserves the documents for the future.
www.mcc.co.mercer.pa.us /prothonotary/about.htm   (524 words)

  
 Crawford County Government
The Prothonotary shall be responsible for the safekeeping of all records and papers.
The Prothonotary shall endorse upon all papers the filing date thereof, together with the precise hour of the entry of all judgments, verdicts, mechanic's liens, municipal liens, tax liens of all kinds, financing statements or other encumbrances or liens.
The Prothonotary shall maintain a printed copy of the Rules adopted by the Court and shall insert therein all amendments which may be hereafter adopted from time to time.
www.co.crawford.pa.us /Local_Civil_Rules/L300.htm   (802 words)

  
 CCPA: Prothonotary History
In Pennsylvania prior to 1790, the Prothonotary was the appointment of the General Assembly.
The Prothonotary has a tremendous responsibility in the operation of this office and rightfully should be an elected official by the choice of the electorate.
All the records maintained by the Prothonotary are available to the public unless sealed by the Court.
www.ccpa.net /cumberland/cwp/view.asp?a=1722&Q=524044&PM=1   (288 words)

  
 Lawrence County Prothonotary's Office Home Page
The Prothonotary is elected to serve a four year term as the legal custodian of civil documents filed with the Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas.
The Prothonotary's filing duties are set by Pennsylvania statutes, the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Lawrence County Local Rules of Court.
The Office of the Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts is a challenging job requiring constant attention to laws and the needs of citizens for which I am truly honored to serve.
www.co.lawrence.pa.us /prothonotary/index.html   (269 words)

  
 Composition and Microclimate of Prothonotary Warbler Nests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
PETIT, L.J. Breeding biology of Prothonotary Warblers in rivefine habitat in Tennessee.
Methods.--We studied Prothonotary Warbler breeding activity in 250 wooden nest boxes in tidal swamps in and near Presquile National Wildlife Ref- uge on the James River near Hopewell, Virginia (37ø20'N,77ø15'W), from 1987 through 1991 (Blem and Blem 1991, 1992).
Prothonotary Warblers build their nests in this area between mid-April and late June (first nest initiated 28-30 April over five years of study).
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v111n01/p0197-p0200.html   (2972 words)

  
 Prothonotary Warbler Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas
Called the Golden Swamp Warbler by John James Audubon, the Prothonotary Warbler is a familiar breeder in forested wetlands of the eastern United States from Minnesota to south Florida.
In Florida the Prothonotary Warbler is common throughout the Panhandle and the northern peninsula and is becoming increasingly less common southward.
During the breeding season, the Prothonotary Warbler is restricted to cypress swamps, flooded river bottoms, and deciduous woodlands near slow-moving or standing water.
myfwc.com /bba/powa.htm   (344 words)

  
 Audubon WatchList - Prothonotary Warbler
Prothonotary Warblers can be found nesting across much of the eastern United States, ranging from Florida and eastern Texas north to Wisconsin, western New York, and northern New Jersey.
Prothonotary Warblers eat mostly insects and snails during the breeding season; the bulk of the food taken includes caterpillars, flies, midges, spiders, and mayflies.
Destruction of mangroves on Prothonotary Warblers' wintering grounds is probably the greatest threat to these birds; coastal development, highway construction, agriculture, and aquaculture have eliminated 50 to 70% of the original mangroves in Colombia and Ecuador.
audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=165   (898 words)

  
 Crawford County Government
At all sessions of Argument Court and at all trials and special hearings, the Prothonotary shall have the entire record of each case before the session arranged in the order that the papers therein were filed and present the same to the Court when the case is called.
The Prothonotary shall maintain a bulletin board of sufficient size and conspicuously placed in the Prothonotary's office for posting thereon all notices directed by rules or by special order of Court.
The Prothonotary shall keep a separate listing of the date that costs and fees were imposed, the date due, collection efforts, and the dates and amounts of payment.
www.co.crawford.pa.us /Local_Civil_Rules/L301.htm   (780 words)

  
 Wildlife Mississippi Magazine Spring/Summer 2001 Species Profile
This bird is the Prothonotary Warbler, one of two wood warblers found in the United States that nest in the cavities of trees.
The Prothonotary Warbler is a small neotropical migratory bird, reaching approximately 5 inches in length.
The preferred habitat of the Prothonotary Warbler is wooded swampy areas and forested bottomlands near slow moving or standing water.
www.wildlifemiss.org /magazine/ss01/species.html   (499 words)

  
 National Audubon Society - Waterbirds - Prothonotary Warbler
Prothonotary Warblers breed in wooded swamps, forested river bottoms, and the edges of lakes or ponds.
Prothonotary Warblers pick insects, spiders, and small snails from the surfaces of tree trunks, fallen logs, and the ground.
Prothonotary Warblers migrate early, both to and from their breeding grounds, and probably fly directly over the Gulf of Mexico.
web1.audubon.org /waterbirds/species.php?speciesCode=prowar&tab=natHistory   (505 words)

  
 BradfordCountyPa.Org -Prothonotary
The Prothonotary and clerk of Courts Office is the record keeper for the Court of Common Pleas.
Additionally, the Prothonotary's office records judgments and liens and acts as an agent for the U.S. Department for the acceptance of passport applications.
The Clerk of Courts and Prothonotary for Bradford County is Sally F Vaughn.
www.bradfordcountypa.org /ElectedOfficials/Prothonotary.asp   (86 words)

  
 Allegheny County Prothonotary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Prothonotary is the chief clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.
The Prothonotary accepts documents for filing, issues writs, initiates execution proceedings, takes bonds in civil cases; and processes appeals from the minor judiciary, Board of Viewers and administrative agencies to Common Pleas and from Common Pleas to the appellate courts.
In addition, the Prothonotary has miscellaneous record keeping duties such as the recording of notary public signatures, mechanics' liens, municipal claims and tax liens.
www.county.allegheny.pa.us /protho/prowhats.asp   (265 words)

  
 Somerset County Government - Prothonotary
The word Prothonotary is a Latin word meaning “first, chief or highest administrator.” This title dates back in Ecclesiastical Law as being the highest administrator of the Court of Rome and the first Notary known as the Prelate of a body of 12 Notaries.
When a case was ready for trial, the Prothonotary would notify the judges when to appear in Court to try the case.
The Prothonotary is the elected civil clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and is responsible for recording all civil procedures before the court.
www.co.somerset.pa.us /Prothonotary.htm   (252 words)

  
 Prothonotary Lamb launches mayor's race - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Experience: Deputy prothonotary, 1992 to 2000; took over the office after Michael Coyne died; elected to a four-year term in 2003; legislative assistant to Pittsburgh City Council, 1988 to 1991; assistant regional director of Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, 1984 to 1987.
Though Allegheny County Prothonotary Michael Lamb lacks name recognition and has served little time in elected office, several local political analysts expect him to be a formidable candidate for Pittsburgh mayor.
Lamb was the deputy prothonotary from 1992 until 2000, when he took over the office after Michael Coyne died.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_291820.html   (1074 words)

  
 The Prothonotary Warbler in Canada
The Prothonotary Warbler may be confused with the Yellow Warbler, which is almost all yellow, with rusty streaks on its breast.
The Prothonotary is the quintessential "Carolinian" species, breeding throughout the eastern U.S, and north to extreme southwestern Ontario.
Simply put, the goals of the plan is to ensure that the Prothonotary Warbler does not become extirpated in Canada, and to increase the population to at least 20 mated pairs by the end of 2001.
www.bsc-eoc.org /prowmain.html   (3344 words)

  
 CHAPTER 23. PROTHONOTARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Prior to execution the Prothonotary shall serve notice to the defendant-obligor in the manner above provided for residents or nonresidents as the case may be, and such notice shall include a warning that defendant-obligor's property will be seized and sold or his or her wages attached on failure to appear.
The Prothonotary for New Castle County shall keep an indirect index in a docket for that purpose of all writs of foreign and domestic attachment which are issued from the court, and index the same at the time they are so issued.
The Prothonotary shall issue a warrant, under his or her hand and official seal, to each of the fence viewers of the Prothonotary's county, and notify the public of their appointment by as many advertisements, signed by the Prothonotary and posted in each hundred, as there are viewers therein.
www.delcode.state.de.us /title10/c023/index.htm   (1910 words)

  
 Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Protonotaria citrea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Prothonotary Warbler moves among the lower branches of trees and shrubs searching for prey among the leaves and in rotten wood.
During the breeding season, the Prothonotary Warbler occurs in appropriate habitat through most of Georgia, except in the mountainous regions.
Prothonotary Warbler populations have declined in some areas because of the drainage of bottomland hardwood forests and elimination of floodplain forests.
museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/pcitrea.html   (506 words)

  
 The Office of the Prothonotary
The office of the Prothonotary is the Clerk of the Civil Division of the Court of Common Pleas.
The prothonotary also processes appeals from the magisterial district justices to the Court of Common Pleas as well as appeals from the Court of Common Pleas to the Superior, Supreme and Commonwealth Courts.
The present Prothonotary, Patricia L. Bachtle, is the 59th person to hold that position in the history of the county.
www.buckscounty.org /government/rowOfficers/Prothonotary/index.aspx   (410 words)

  
 Did You Know. . ...What the hell is a prothonotary?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
That Court had 12 prothonotaries, also known as prelates, who had preeminence over all other notaries and were the administrators who notified judges when to appear in court to hear scheduled cases.
A prothonotary in Pennsylvania, for example, is the principal clerk of the courts who keeps its records, and the great seal, issues processes, enters judgments and orders, and certifies records.
The Prothonotary Warbler is found in the woods and swampy river bottoms along the Mississippi River and its tributaries such as the Ohio, the Wabash and the Illinois Rivers.
www.enotary.org /NotaryReview/DidYouKnow.htm   (304 words)

  
 History of Prothonotary
The word Prothonotary is a Latin work meaning First Notary, or Highest Notary.
In England, the Prothonotary was very distinguishably dressed in the court room.
The Prothonotary is the keeper of all civil papers, which comprise of accident cases, contractual disagreements, land appeals, protection from abuse cases, asbestos cases, judgments, executions, eminent domain and all miscellaneous law suits.
www.co.lawrence.pa.us /prothonotary/History_of_Prothonotary/history_of_prothonotary.html   (217 words)

  
 Prothonotary for Greene County, Pennsylvania
The Prothonotary ~~ is the keeper/clerk of the civil records/division for the court.
The Prothonotary is elected to serve a four-year term as the legal custodial of documents filed with the County Court of Common Pleas and the Prothonotary's filing duties are set by Pennsylvania statutes, the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Precedure, and the Greene County Local Rules of Court.
Susan began her first term as County Prothonotary on January 1, 2000; and was re-elected for Prothonotary in the November 2003 Municipals Elections.
www.co.greene.pa.us /secured/gc/depts/lo/court/proth.htm   (1384 words)

  
 Tioga: Home
The Prothonotary is the Chief Clerk and Record keeper for all filings related to Civil Cases.
The Prothonotary is the Clerk of the Civil Division of the Court of Common Pleas who is elected to a four year term.
In Pennsylvania prior to 1790, the Prothonotary was appointed by the General Assembly.
www.seda-cog.org /tioga/cwp/view.asp?a=899&Q=431623&tiogaNav=|9669|   (456 words)

  
 The Official Beaver County Web Site - Prothonotary
The Prothonotary is elected to serve a four year term as the legal custodian of civil documents filed with the Beaver County Court of Common Pleas.
The Prothonotary's filing duties are set by Pennsylvania statutes, the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Beaver County Local Rules of Court.
The Prothonotary is also responsible for maintaining accurate financial records relating to the transactions of the office.
www.co.beaver.pa.us /Prothonotary/missionstatement.htm   (186 words)

  
 Prothonotary Warbler
It was the fourth most-frequently confirmed of the 19 warblers recorded during the Atlas Project.
Although it is generally easier to confirm the breeding of cavity nesters, Prothonotary Warbler nest sites are often situated in swamps and lakes and are difficult to approach.
Prothonotary Warblers are considered a frequent host of Brown-headed Cowbird Eggs: and young according to Ehrlich et al.
mdc.mo.gov /nathis/birds/birdatlas/maintext/0400339.htm   (430 words)

  
 The Prothonotary Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Prothonotary Warbler has a breeding range that extends from the mid-Atlantic coast south to northern Florida, and then west to eastern Texas and Oklahoma.
Prothonotarys like wooded swamps, flooded bottomland forest, and riparian corridors along streams with lots of willows, maples, ash, fl oak, cypress, gum or tupelo trees.
The name of Protonotaria citrea (the Prothonotary Warbler) was given to it by early French trappers and pirates in what is now Louisiana.
www.birdingamerica.com /Maryland/Prothonotary.htm   (176 words)

  
 Bird Carvings - Male Prothonotary Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
The Prothonotary Warbler is 13 cm long and weighs 12.5 g.
The preferred foraging habitat is dense, woody streams, where the Prothonotary Warbler forages actively in low foliage, mainly for insects and snails.
www.birdhousesandfeedersonline.com /product/BS008561   (282 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prothonotary Apostolic
In later antiquity there were in Rome seven regional notaries, who, on the further development of the papal administration and the accompanying increase of the notaries, remained the supreme palace notaries of the papal chancery (notarii apostolici or protonotarii).
In the Middle Ages the prothonotaries were very high papal officials, and were often raised directly from this office to the cardinalate.
Since the sixteenth century the popes had also appointed honorary prothonotaries, who enjoyed the same privileges as the seven real members of the college; and titular prothonotaries, who held a corresponding position in the administration of the episcopal ordinariate or in the collegiate chapter.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12503a.htm   (435 words)

  
 PROTHONOTARY
As the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Civil Division, under the supervision of the judges of this court, the Prothonotary generally has the power to sign and affix the seal of the court to all writs and processes, and, also to the exemplifications of all records and process.
The Prothonotary or one of her deputies must be present in court during all civil cases to administer oaths to witnesses and juries and keep track of exhibits.
The Prothonotary is responsible for the Naturalization Ceremony held twice a year, and is also the Acceptance Agency for U.S. Passport applications.
www.york-county.org /departments/courts/proth.htm   (364 words)

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