To Mr. Gustavus Vassa, Commissary of Provisions and Stores for the Black Poor going to Sierra Leone.
The commissary grinned: "I dare say; but they are not here now.
The commissary made an official visit and ordered the luggage to be examined.
And it was not until he had waited for nearly an hour that he was at last able to tell the commissary the details of the crime and hand him the thirteen bank-notes.
The count informed the central commissary of police at Amiens, who opened an inquiry and arranged discreetly for the house to be constantly watched, so as to prevent the Austrian consul from selling or sending away the ring.
With this key, the commissary opened the door on the other side of the passage.
Let us go and inform the commissary of the police.
Ganimard said to Shears: "The best thing will be for me to place myself outside Lupin's door, while you go to the Rue Demours and fetch the commissary of police.
Thénard, thecommissary of police of the 16th division, released Messrs.
The operation of the several departments of the Quartermaster General, Commissary General, Paymaster General, Chief of Engineers, Chief of Ordnance, and Surgeon General.
To curtail purchases for arms, ammunition, quartermaster's and commissary supplies, and reduce the expenses of the military establishment and its several branches.
Their Quartermaster stores and their Commissary stores, and everything they have is allowed to lie around loose, just wherever they get the notion to drop them.
In 1580 he went to Spain as commissaryfor the Philippine province of the order; and ten years afterward returned to the Philippines with a considerable body of missionaries.
The Commissary laughed, and held out his snuff-box to Marlow, who did not take the snuff, but fell into a deep fit of thought, while the Commissary continued his perquisitions.
We must be gentle with her," he said in French to theCommissary of Police, who was with him, and whom we have hitherto called the man in black.
Marlow folded up the letter with a smile, and the Commissary proceeded, with all due formalities, to mark and register the whole correspondence as found in the possession of Mrs. Ayliffe.
That is to say, you and your husband," said theCommissary in an insinuating tone.
The Commissary interrupted her somewhat sharply in her catalogue of the miseries of France, by saying, "I will beg you to give me your keys, madame, for we must have a visitation of your papers.
In the mean while, the Commissary continued to write actively, putting down all she said.
I will request you, gentlemen," said the commissary of police, "to begin your duties by examining the victim who wears a military costume.
Here come Gevrol and two of our comrades with the commissary of police and two other gentlemen.
The secretary of the commissary of police for the thirteenth arrondissement informed Lecoq that Polyte Chupin's wife lived with her child, in the suburbs, in the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles.
There appeared to be nothing more, and the commissary was expressing his regret, when, on carefully examining the pocket-book he found a compartment which had at first escaped his notice, being hidden by a leather flap.
Lecoq was fortunate enough to find the commissary at his office.
It is absolutely necessary for us to find the Widow Chupin's daughter-in-law; and I hope we shall be able to obtain her address from the police commissary of the district where the Poivriere is situated.
It was, indeed, the commissary who was approaching, interested but not disturbed by this triple murder which was sure to make his arrondissement the subject of Parisian conversation during the next few days.
In a few hours the commissaryof police, the legal physician, and the public prosecutor will be here.
He hastily left the room, ran to the Place de Roubaix, jumped into a cab, and giving the driver the address of the district commissary of police, promised him a hundred sous over and above the regular fare if he would only make haste.
When he had finished the perusal he turned to the commissary and remarked: "All this is very unlike your report of this morning, which represented the affair as a low broil between a party of miserable vagabonds.
He said no more, for the little party which he preceded had now overtaken him, and he stood aside to make way for the commissary of police.
The commissary of police had handed him the letter, and he was studying it with the closest attention.
Yesterday evening I gave orders that the commissary of police should be informed of the matter.
As the Commissary of the Bishop of London, the constructive ecclesiastical head of the colonies, he brought much power to aid his pronounced opinions, and he prosecuted Whitefield with vigor both in the ecclesiastical court and in the desk.
An Orderly Book of Commissary Wilson, in the possession of Gen.
The trials of Bigot and the others in Paris elicited a large amount of details respecting the enormities which had characterized the commissary affairs of Canada during the war.
The commissary therefore found it impossible to ascend Rimouski to its source, and crossing its valley found himself again on a dividing ridge, where he soon struck a stream running to the southeast.
The commissary then proceeded a journey of five days toward the east, blazing a path and making signals to guide the second detachment.
The commissary of the party proceeded as speedily as possible to Oldtown, in order to procure boats and engage men.
The quartermaster at Young's Point was ordered to send two hundred wagons with Blair, and the commissary was to load them with hard bread, coffee, sugar, salt and one hundred thousand pounds of salt meat.
But I had been quartermaster, commissaryand adjutant in the field.
The chief quartermaster and the chief commissary were graduates.
This saving was purchased by the commissary for the benefit of the fund.
Seventeen guns fell into our hands, and the enemy destroyed by fire their store-houses, containing a large amount of commissary stores.
In the Mexican war in the summer of 1846, I had been appointed regimental quartermaster and commissary and had not been at a battalion drill since.
He had with him two hundred wagons loaded with rations, the only commissary supplies received during the entire campaign.
I was detailed to act as quartermaster and commissary to the regiment.
Thereupon the commissary causes the arrest of the accused person, and ships him to Mexico.
The tribunal here is formed of the said superintendent-commissary with his chief constable and his notary.
The commissary has his chief constable and notary.
In Manila they have in their vigilant and watchful care, close to the convent, a costly and beautiful chapel of the tertiary order of penance, in charge of a religious who is commissary and visitor.
There has been and always is in this city of Manila a commissary of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, appointed by the holy tribunal of México.
In the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen, at the completion of his term as superior, he was chosen commissary to the court of Madrid.
There is not, properly speaking, a tribunal of the Inquisition at Manila, but only a commissary of the Holy Office, appointed to this place by the tribunal of Mexico.
A collection of models for the courses of artillery and fortification, under the care of a commissary of the school.
They afterwards rise successively to the rank of assistant-commissary, commissary of the third, of the second, and of the first class.
We found the town clear of troops, but had come so near surprising them that they had to abandon all their commissary stores, as they did not have time to either remove or destroy them.
Applying to the quartermaster and commissary for subsistence for my men and horses, I was instructed to collect “tax in kind.
Nevertheless, we slept fifty miles from there that night, camping with some commissary wagons on the road, a few miles from Fayetteville.
Tevis, of Galveston, was acting as commissary of subsistence, and Charlie Dunn, of Shreveport, was his assistant.
As commissary supplies were gathered in for the approaching campaign they were stored in the freight department of the depot.
About the fourth day we had been resting, and the commissary force was out hustling for something to eat, but before we got any rations the Third Texas was suddenly ordered to mount immediately and go in search of our missing artillery.
Boyd was detailed to work in the commissary department.
This time the information seemed so sure that Licquet started for Tournebut, which had been occupied by gendarmes for a fortnight; he took Soyer to guide him, and the commissary of police, Legendre, to make a report of the search.
Licquet and the commissary examined the partitions and had them sounded.
With Commissary Beffara, he set off on the search.
This was that he and Mallet, one of his comrades, should go to Donnay in uniform; Langelley was to play the part of commissary of police.
After this there was appointed for each fifty a distributing commissary to distribute feed in camp as follows: Charles Kennedy for 1st 50; J.
Each fifty had also appointed a contracting commissary for the purpose of contracting for work and grain as follows: Henry Sherwood 1st 50; David H.
Still another seed awaits the coming of the commissary to nourish while it consumes that vitality in the fascia of the glands to develop the portly child we call mumps.
As soon as a being takes possession of its room, the commissary of supplies begins to furnish rations for that being, who has to build for itself a dwelling place.
British commissary of prisoners, with one from Lord Rawdon; also a copy of my letter to Colonel Mathews, enclosing, also, the papers therein named.
On the contrary, I think the commissary should be instructed, after the next harvest, not to send one bushel of grain to the barracks from below the falls of the rivers, or from the northern counties.
I also trouble you with a letter from the master of the flag in this State, to the British commissary of prisoners in New York, trusting it will thus be more certainly conveyed than if sent to Mr. Adams.
Perhaps your commissary of prisoners can effect the former method of answer.
I have heard, indeed, that an objection arises to their being kept within this state, from the information of the commissary that they cannot be subsisted here.
I doubt not but you have an established mode of knowing, at all times, through your commissary of prisoners, the precise state of those in the power of the enemy.
I am sure you have thought of preventing it in future, by the appointment of a commissary of hides, or some other good regulation for saving and tanning the hides, which the consumption of your army will afford.
If the troops could be fed upon long letters, I believe the gentleman at the head of that department in this country would be the best commissary upon earth.
In August, Grant was made quartermaster and commissary of the regiment--a position of responsibility which he held until the army was withdrawn.
After a night of feverish anxiety, where hopes and fears warred and conflicted with each other, Cashel was early on the following morning conducted before the chief commissary of the police.
As Linton was led forth, the commissaryproceeded to arrest the different individuals present on the charge of gambling in secret.
These considerations have moved the General Police Commissary to renew, in full force, the before-enacted laws and regulations, and to order them to be enforced with rigor in the present state of affairs.
On receipt of her application, reference is made to the Commissary of Police of the ward to ascertain her character.
Hence, in December, 1837, a new decree was issued by the governor, repealing all former laws and regulations, and placing the whole subject under the control of the Commissary of Police.
This shall happen notwithstanding that she is bound to give notice of her removal to the police commissary of the quarter.
As each transport arrives in New Orleans, the senior officer on board will require of the Quarter Master and Assistant Commissary the necessary quarters and provisions, until the troops are mustered out of the service.
The men complain heavily of the commissary who had the conscience to sell them their own biscuit at the exhorbitant price of ten dollars per barrel.
Two non-commissioned officers of the Fort, assistant Commissary Sergeants, Turner and Sunderland, with two citizens, Messrs.
Remaining there only long enough to replenish their commissary supplies, the march was directed to Fort Larned on the Old Santa Fe Trail.
Colonel Sedgwick had been sent out to fight the Kiowas that year, and in the fall a large quantity of commissary stores had been sent him.
During the war with Mexico, the fort was headquarters for the commissary department, and many supplies were stored there, though the troops camped below on the beautiful river-bottom.
