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The institution was established also in Spanish America during the conquest and the Spanish Philippines, where it was also known by the names justicia mayor [citation needed] and alcalde mayor [citation needed] (not to be confused with the alcaldes ordinarios of the cabildo). In Indian areas the office was known as the corregidor de indios.
Office Name Portrait Since Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission Justice V. Ramasubramanian: 23 December 2024 [13]: Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities Iqbal Singh Lalpura
Mayan alcaldes from Guatemala, 1891. Alcalde (/ æ l ˈ k æ l d i /; Spanish:) is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo (the municipal council) and judge of first instance of a town.
Mayors of Indian cities is the list of mayors of various cities and towns in India. A mayor in India is the head of the municipal corporation and first citizen of that city of town. Many cities and towns in India have mayors and the procedure to elect them varies from one state to another.
Corregimiento (Spanish: [korexiˈmjento]; Catalan: Corregiment, IPA: [kurəʒiˈmen]) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites.
Ponce's first [b] mayor was Don Pedro Sánchez de Mathos, in 1692, appointed by governor Juan Robles de Lorenzana. Ponce elected its first mayor (as well as its first Municipal Assembly) on 20 September 1812. [3] Its first elected mayor was José Ortiz de la Renta, who took office in 1812. Ortiz de la Renta occupied the post of mayor on eight ...
In Mexico, an ayuntamiento (municipal council) is composed of a municipal president (mayor), one or two síndicos (attorney general) and several regidores who meet in cabildo (council) sessions. A regidor is the community representative (commissioner) before the municipal government. [1] The responsibilities of a regidor are: [2]
Always existing in pairs, they were called Alcalde de primer voto (roughly, "first mayor") and Alcalde de segundo voto (roughly, "second mayor"). The alcalde ordinario was a judicial magistrate who, with some exceptions, was responsible for the administration of civil and criminal justice within their municipal jurisdiction.