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Districts Annuals: Elections. Members are elected to the council for terms of three years. Counties, London boroughs, and parishes elect their councils as a body triennially. In other boroughs a third of tie councillors retire each year, thus requiring annual elections. Urban and rural districts annuals can choose whether to have triennial or annual elections. Most urban districts annuals have annuals, while most rural districts annuals have triennials.
The Punjab Boundary Commission (Radcliffe Commission) which was formed in 1947 to delimit the boundaries of India and Pakistan, awarded the whole of the 14 westernmost districts annuals and portions of Lahore and Gurdaspur districts annuals, with a total population of about 15,802,000 persons (3,997,000 of whom were non-Muslims) to Pakistan, and the whole of 11 eastern districts annuals together with the remaining portions of Lahore and Gurdaspur districts annuals, with a population of approximately 12,697,000 (of whom 4,427,000 were Muslims) to India. In addition, the Punjab States, with a population of 4,469,000 (of whom 939,000 were Muslims) went to India. As these figures show, there were large religious minorities left on either side of the demarcation line.
MANY BIENNIALS flower in early and midsummer, thus usefully filling an awkward gap that can occur between the spring and summer flowers. Like annuals, they are temporary plants which should be pulled up and put on the compost pile when they have finished flowering. Also, as with annuals, though it's easy enough to save seed of most kinds it is usually impossible to prevent cross-fertilization of different varieties, as a result of which home-saved seed produces only a mongrel population. The distinction between annuals, biennials and herbaceous perennials is not always clear-cut since sometimes varieties of one group can be treated as if they belonged to one of the other groups; hollyhocks (Alcea), for example, can be grown as annuals, biennials or short-lived perennials. However, to be sure of a regular succession of biennials it is necessary to sow seed every year at the correct season. |
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