Their demands included the abolition of the office of intendant, a reduction in the level of the taille, and the restoration of normal judicial procedure in registering financial edicts in the Parlement.
That province had been given a government much like that of New France, except for the important office of intendant, and the province was in population almost wholly French, as it was in civil law.
His appointment in Germany followed six days of intense discussions in which he was courted for the post of intendant, or executive director, after earlier approaches from the Berlin Philharmonic's new music director, Sir Simon Rattle.
On February 11 , 1813 Alejandro Ramírez arrived to Puerto Rico and almost immediately was named to the office of Intendant, eventually establishing a Consulate of Commerce to control trade in Puerto Rico.
The surintendance was replaced by a council of finance, of which Colbert became the dominant member with the title of intendant until, in 1665, he became controller general.
The new team coming in, long suspected and now confirmed by the Bavarian Minister for Education, Cultural Affairs, Science and Art, is that of intendant Serge Dorny (from the Lyon Opera) and music director Vladimir Jurowski (from the London Philharmonic).
The use of intendants, who held neither venal nor hereditary office, was one way in which the limiting effect of the sale of office on royal policies could be circumvented.
In the 17th century the already existing généralité became the sphere of authority of the intendant, a direct agent of the king with wide police, justice, and finance powers.
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