Proprietors

You say, you acknowledge me, because I am approved of by the King; but you take no notice of my commission from the Proprietors, which is what makes me Governor.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

You know that you purchased only 15000 acres of land of the Lords Proprietors, which is but 150 pounds sterling money, whereof at Mill Creek? there is only 85000 acres surveyed; the other 5000 acres not being yet taken up, which I intend to take up at White Oak River, as you designed.

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

The Proprietors were the executive governors of the Company j or if that fhould be denied, the Directors were in a Gtuatioo little different; they carried with them all the evils of popu - lar aflemhlies entrufted with executive power, uncertain in their deliberation, fluctuating in their councils, and 'every executive aft under the direction of a large affrmbly, com - pofed, in a great meafure, of thofe very iervants whom - the Directors were to govern.

The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons ... 1784

But it is true that in almost every tavern keeper, the Proprietors of the colony have a warm advocate, and the more effeminate and debauched the people are, the more they are fitted for an absolute and tyrannical government.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Corporate America has taken notice of the tremendous marketing ability the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America has developed to roll out promotions and initiatives at its 4,040 member bowling centers across the country.

Here's A Forward-Looking, Innovative Industry: Bowling 2011

Author if it succeeds that they become thereby Proprietors of a Moiety of the

Letter 46 2009

Proprietors of the Dent Schoolhouse say the children's ghosts still linger.

The 10 Wickedest Haunted Houses In America Maureen Farrell 2010

I shall be glad to see a Copy if there be one in which it has been decided or even asserted by Counsel, that Booksellers by publishing a first Edition at their own risque on the terms of dividing the net profits with the Author become by implication part & equal Proprietors with the Author in the Copy Right.

Letter 46 2009

Just as today, that immense ambition attracted scorn from the BBC's commercial rivals at launch, with the Newspaper Proprietors' Association claiming the Listener represented "an illegitimate stretching of official activity".

BBC launches online archive of the Listener magazine 2011

Steve Johnson is executive director of the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America.

Here's A Forward-Looking, Innovative Industry: Bowling 2011