0 in the UK , in the past, a member of a local government chosen by the other members
1 an elected member of some city governments
Whereupon the mayor, the minister, the aldermen, the schoolmaster, capital burgesses and common burgesses, in all above one hundred, did publicly and solemnly pronounce it.
Where no doctor had attended, an expert appointed by the local mayor and aldermen was to conduct a postmortem examination.
Cities were subdivided into quar ters, which were headed by aldermen (aksakals).
The nomination of the aldermen was carried out by the deputies to the provincial estates and two members of each body (nobles, gradues, bourgeois, negotiants).
The peak was reached in 1776, with 10 titled nobles out of a total of 40 aldermen, in addition to the alferez mayor.
There were no manufacturers as aldermen for the simple reason that manufacturing had no economic weight in the capital.
The former among the aldermen were all titled nobles (among them several royal favourites) seeking to in-uence the council's voting.
The aldermen not only recognized the right of married women to make decisions about their own property, but upheld that right in actual practice.
