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He informed the Secretary that the ayuntamiento of the capital had charged itself with the payment on account of the Federal district of four hundred thousand dollars of the six hundred and sixty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars imposed per year on the State of Mexico; that General Cadwallader would soon begin to collect through the ayuntamiento of Toluca a large part of the remainder.
Vino en ese año con su familia a México, hallando desde Veracruz cordial y entusiasta recibimiento; y supuesto su positivo mérito y lo avanzado de sus ideas liberales, nada extraño fué verle aquí nombrado bibliotecario nacional y síndico del Ayuntamiento, ni que la administración de Gómez Farias le hiciera miembro de la Dirección General de Instrucción Pública, en que figuraban Rodríguez Puebla, Quintana Roo y algunos otros personajes, y que, como es sabido, llegó a ser una especie de consejo privado en que se discutieron y resolvieron las más graves cuestiones políticas de la época.
Alert correspondents, amazed to see the corps commander at such a place and so far from the Ayuntamiento, surrounded him as he would have retaken his seat in his carriage, and clamored for something as coming from him in the way of an expression of opinion, which, with grave courtesy, the general declined to give, but could not prevent appearing a week later in a thousand papers and in a dozen different forms ferried over to Hong Kong by the Shogun or some other ship, and cabled thence to waiting Christendom.
alcalde: Governor of a province or district, with both executive and judicial authority. Ayuntamiento: A city corporation or council, and by extension the building in which it has its offices; specifically, in Manila, the capitol. balete: The Philippine banyan, a tree sacred in Malay folk-lore. banka: A dugout canoe with bamboo supports or outriggers.
In the days when don Ramón had been a young subordinate of the Ayuntamiento, he had met and liked the man, and taking him into the ranks of his "heelers," had promoted him rapidly to be chief of staff. In the opinion of the "boss," there wasn't a cleverer, shrewder fellow in the world than don Andrés, nor one with a better memory for names and faces.
The General led the way to the room on the first floor that overlooks the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. It is a vast apartment, hung with tapestries and pictures such as men travel many miles to see.
The President of the Ayuntamiento was a pleasant person to know, among the dishonest, intriguing Mexican officials. He received but little pay in return for a great deal of hard work; but he liked to be in office for the opportunities it afforded him of improving the condition of the poor of the city. It was a sight to see the prisoners crowd round him as he entered the court.
Now, some of the chief men of Yerba Buena, Folsom, Howard, Leidesdorf, and others, knowing the importance of a name, saw their danger, and, by some action of the ayuntamiento, or town council, changed the name of Yerba Buena to "San Francisco." Dr. Semple was outraged at their changing the name to one so like his of Francisca, and he in turn changed his town to the other name of Mrs.
The men of the house, Frost and Garrison, were accustomed, when the latter was at home, to breakfast together quite early. Then the colonel would drive off to the Ayuntamiento in the walled city, and Frank would mount his pony and ride away to his long day's duties.
The citizens who possessed full political rights were known in the most general sense as vecinos; when acting as electors they were spoken of as forming the concejo, cabildo, or council. The actual body which met and directed municipal affairs was the ayuntamiento, made up of the more important magistrates and officials, of whom there was usually a considerable number and variety.
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