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240:. It was reported in October 1888 that this scheme was ready to be presented to the next Court of Quarter Sessions for approval. Elections to the council were to be held every three years on a household franchise, with sixty seats available, including three for Salisbury and one each for Devizes, Malmesbury, and Marlborough. There were also to be up to twenty voting aldermen, chosen by the councillors, holding office for six years.
217:. They gained some of their powers under the Act on 1 April 1889, and their full powers on 22 September 1889. These included repairing county roads and bridges; maintaining court houses, police stations, and county halls; providing an asylum for pauper lunatics and reformatory and industrial schools; and being responsible for weights and measures and the control of contagious diseases in animals. The areas they covered were called
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The new county council had many of the members of the outgoing quarter sessions. The continuity was emphasized by the leadership: Lord Bath had been chairman of the
Salisbury and Warminster sessions since 1880, and his vice-chairman,
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of 2 February 1889 reported 28 Liberals, 28 Conservatives, and four
Liberal Unionists; a note on the fly-leaf of the County Council Minutes says 26 Liberals, 25 Conservatives, and nine Liberal Unionists. Five
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A first provisional meeting of the county council, before it gained its powers, was held at
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were appointed, all from outside the elected members of the council. Further meetings were held in the
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358:Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
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452:"Wiltshire County Council", in
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356:"Wiltshire County Council", in
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478:"Wiltshire County Council" in
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262:Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet
225:, but in Wiltshire the whole
2010:1889 English local elections
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244:Elections and first meetings
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768:West Riding
728:Oxfordshire
663:Isle of Ely
623:East Sussex
613:East Riding
91:Independent
1999:Categories
1977:See also:
1224:(Scotland)
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1103:Portsmouth
1083:Nottingham
1058:Manchester
998:Gloucester
953:Canterbury
908:Birmingham
903:Birkenhead
843:Flintshire
738:Shropshire
678:Lancashire
593:Derbyshire
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381:pp 264-295
329:References
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189:The first
1966:Abolished
1900:Abolished
1714:Abolished
1648:Abolished
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1296:Wiltshire
1241:Edinburgh
1183:Worcester
1148:Stockport
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1098:Plymouth
1018:Hastings
963:Coventry
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928:Bradford
813:Anglesey
748:Somerset
673:Kesteven
583:Cornwall
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317:See also
291:aldermen
176:aldermen
1246:Glasgow
1212:Swansea
1207:Cardiff
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