Subprefecture

Transportation was handled by designated transportation commissioners, and mines were under local officials of prefecture (fu), subprefecture (zhou), county (xian), and subcounty (ting) where mines were located. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Always reticent and publicity-shy, after 1956 he appears to have had no further connection with the affair until August 1973, when he wrote to the subprefecture at Saint-Julien declaring that he had resigned as president of the “Association du Prieuré de Sion.” ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

When word of the visits reached the local subprefecture—who were very wary, as relations with Germany were shaky and spy scares were common—they interviewed the visitor, and their report was sent to the Deuxième Bureau the French MI5 in Paris. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

In 1980 it was claimed that the statutes deposited with the Saint-Julien subprefecture in 1956 were effectively just dummies for the record, while the real statutes were not for public consumption. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

On May 7, 1956, the subprefecture at Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in thedépartement administrative region of Haute-Savoie—on the border with Switzerland, not far from Geneva—received a request for registration1from the officials of an “association” calling itself the Priory of Sion, subtitled CIRCUIT. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

In late 1899, when the subprefecture investigated him, it returned the following somewhat contradictory report: M. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2006)

The public institutions include the subprefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a communal college. ❋ Various (N/A)

Paul and his brother are in England; Ernest is a consul in America; as for Leon, he is at Hycres in his little subprefecture. ❋ Various (N/A)

-- On 30 April, 1912, the civil subprefecture of Tsinkyhiem was transferred from the jurisdiction of the Vicar Apostolic of Southern Sze-ch'wan to that of the Vicar ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

For the past ten years, the Robineau Institute beat the imperial lycee of the town at every competitive examination, and all the colleges of the subprefecture, and these constant successes were due, they said, to an usher, a simple usher, M. Piquedent, or rather Pere Piquedent. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)