Noun:

டச்சு நாட்டின் நகரச் சட்ட முதல்வர்,

burgomasters's Usage Examples:

In the lower, under the energetic direction of two burgomasters, De Brouckere and Anspach, not less sweeping changes were effected.

The burgomasters are appointed by the crown, except at Copenhagen, where they are elected by the town council, subject to royal approbation.

These schepenen appointed in their turn from the citizens to assist them a body of sworn councillors (gezworencn or :lures), whose presidents, styled " burgomasters," had the supervision of the communal finances.

Two of the number are nominated by their colleagues as burgomasters, who preside in succession for a year at a time and hold office four years, one retiring every two years.

In 1311, the two burgomasters, now chiefs of the municipality, take the place of the royal Schultheiss.

Rostock, however, never entirely lost the independence which it enjoyed as a Hanse town; and in 1788, as the result of long contentions with the rulers of Mecklenburg, it secured for itself a peculiar and liberal municipal constitution, administered by three burgomasters and three chambers.

iterschaft, and the Landschaft or burgomasters of certain towns.

Two aldermen, later styled burgomasters, were to preside, the one over the Schepenen, the other over the Raad, sharing this presidency with two episcopal officials.

In the large towns the burgomasters must be jurists, arid are paid.

In the 14th century a narrow patrician council selected from the Richerzeche, with two burgomasters, was supreme.

Membership of the governing council, which selected from its own body the four rationales or burgomasters, was confined to men of approved "wisdom," and wisdom was measured in terms of money.