They do now, but that wasn't always the case. -----Original Message----- From: CGTJ@aol.com <CGTJ@aol.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2001 7:39 PM Subject: [PA-LAC] Re: What's a Burgess? >Actually, Boroughs do have Mayors. They are elected by the general >population of voters and serve as moderator for the Borough Council and cast >deciding votes, when necessary. In our borough, the Mayor also serves as the >head of the Police Department, is a part-time Borough employee paid a certain >stipend for attending monthly Council meetings. We also have a Borough >Manager who takes care of the day to day business of running the borough. >Most other boroughs in this area are run in a similar fashion. See the >definition of 'burgess' below. >CJ > >AOL's dictionary gives the following definition: > >bur*gess (noun) > >(Middle English burgeis, from Old French borjois, from borc) > >First appeared 13th Century >1 a: a citizen of a British borough > b: a representative of a borough, corporate town, or university in the >British Parliament. > >2 : a representative in the popular branch of the legislature of colonial >Maryland and Virginia. > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit the Lackawanna County, PA Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lackawp.html >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >