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Townhall

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Town´hall`
n.1.A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.
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This dinner of Durdles's has become quite a Cloisterham institution: not only because of his never appearing in public without it, but because of its having been, on certain renowned occasions, taken into custody along with Durdles (as drunk and incapable), and exhibited before the Bench of justices at the townhall.
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The maintenance of the roads costs us five hundred francs, while necessary repairs to the townhall, the parsonage, and the church, with some few other expenses, also amount to a similar sum.
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