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  • _in fact_, all the Sheriffs of this county, for many, many years, have been called _pauper Sheriffs_, and have been merely nominal High

    Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804

  • Like Rome, London is divided into wards: like Rome the City has annually elected magistrates who are called Sheriffs instead of Consuls: like

    The History of London Walter Besant 1868

  • Sheriffs; Messrs. _Perpetual_, or rather Messrs. _Alternate_ Sheriffs, that is to say, Messrs. Mellior and Broderip, being the real or _bona fide_ Sheriffs, their masters having been their mere puppets or nominal

    Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804

  • In addition to the co-op battles mentioned previously, there's a new multiplayer mode called Sheriffs versus Outlaws for team-based games.

    IGN Complete 2009

  • A bill to be entitled an act to increase the fees of the Clerks of the Superior and Inferior Courts of this State, and of the Ordinaries thereof, which the committee amend by adding the word "Sheriffs" to the title and body of the bill, also by adding to the first section the words "during the pending of the present war," and as amended recommend its passage;

    Journal of the Senate of the State of Georgia, at the Annual Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in Milledgeville, the Seat of Government, in 1863. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1863

  • The former PSNI Chief, the most politicised Chief Constable one could imagine, is now President of the Association of Chief Police Officers and this is what he has to say on the topic of elected "Sheriffs" ..

    A Tangled Web 2009

  • The Culloden County Sheriffs finally caught him one day and took him in on reckless endangerment.

    Wounded Knee Jason W. Stuart 2011

  • We shall see soon enough if said "hallucination" disappears like so much coke up the noses of the friends of the two Pitkin County Sheriffs.

    Michael Conniff: Aspen Cocaine the Shame of the City Michael Conniff 2011

  • We shall see soon enough if said "hallucination" disappears like so much coke up the noses of the friends of the two Pitkin County Sheriffs.

    Michael Conniff: Aspen Cocaine the Shame of the City Michael Conniff 2011

  • Parish Sheriffs (and levee boards, locally controlled), the egregious mayor of NO, and the equally egregious governor of LA all bear more culpability than do the feds.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent 2010

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