Members of the legislature at the Cape urged the British government to send a special commissioner to inquire and report.
They again sent Kruger and Joubert to England; they held huge mass meetings; they poured out prayers to the high commissioner to give back their independence; they sent memorial after memorial to the secretary of state.
In 1855, he was a commissioner from Canada at the great exposition in Paris, France.
As Commissioner he formulated the principal legislation on life insurance; and his reports, which have been published in a volume, are the best treatise in English on the practical application of life- insurance principles.
In 1865 the office of Life Insurance Commissioner was filched from him by a trade politician who knew as much of the subject as fresh college graduates do of the practical affairs of life.
Both the men were, moreover, enjoined to complete silence, and told that not a word of the matter must be breathed to anyone except the Commissioner himself.
You have escaped once, but you may not escape so easily a second time, and I must warn you that these disappearances of yours have to be notified to the Commissioner himself.
And the Commissioneris responsible to the Home Secretary?
Surely," he continued, "you received fairly explicit instructions through the Commissioner from Lord Penshurst to let me alone?
No, I was not; but you probably know that a certain Commissioner Kraus was there.
Yes, he sent verbally, by Commissioner Kraus, counsels and plans to be communicated by me to the conspirators, and this communication has occupied me during these last few days.
With a solemn, immovable official countenanceCommissioner Göhausen opened the document which his subordinate handed to him, and, in a loud voice, read its contents.
Baron von Moudenfels or Commissioner Kraus tapped the slumberer lightly on the shoulder.
Commissioner Kraus described that scene in the great hall of Castle Ebersdorf.
With the same hasty steps as he had come, Commissioner Kraus again hastened down the steps, and once more plunged into the tumult of the street.
Commissioner Kraus, smiling, stepped past him into the anteroom.
The commissioner concluded treaties with the Namaqua and Damara which fixed the limits of the territories of the two races and placed the whole country now forming German South-West Africa within the sphere of British influence.
He had been in the employ of the government, and now, probably at the instance of Southwell and Blathwayt, he was selected to fill the difficult and thankless post of commissioner to New England.
Two years later the same commissioner came again, with two others, and was cordially entertained with "wine and sweetmeats.
In 1644, Aulnay sent a commissionerto Boston, who conversed with Governor Endecott in French and with the rest of the magistrates in Latin and endeavored to arrange terms of peace.
The position of Indian commissioner demands the exercise of business ability of the first order, and it is difficult to secure such talent for the salary provided.
After dinner to Gresham College to my Lord Brunker and Commissioner Pett, taking, Mr. Castle with me there to discourse over his draught of a ship he is to build for us.
In some cases a person may hold two offices at the same time; thus, a person may be court commissioner and judge of probate.
In many of the states there is a commissioner of labor to make inspections and formulate statistics pertaining to labor.
No insurance company can legally transact business in the state until it has satisfied the commissioner that its methods of insurance and its financial condition are such as to give the security promised to those insured by it.
Thus, in some states there is a dairy commissioner whose duty it is to see that no substance is offered for sale as butter which is not butter.
The certificate of authority granted to any company may be revoked by the commissioner at any time if the company refuses or neglects to comply with the conditions established by law.
Commissioner Kernan: "How general was the strike at La Salle?
Commissioner Kernan: "Have any of the old men been taken back?
Commissioner Kernan: "Is there any punishment for violation of that rule?
Commissioner Kernan: "How much higher are rents in Pullman than elsewhere?
Commissioner Kernan: "What other accommodations do you get for the rent you pay, say in the way of paved streets?
Commissioner Kernan: "Then there is no way of getting the matter to the officials or superintendent?
Commissioner Wright: "What was the feeling of the employes toward Mr. Pullman previous to the strike?
Commissioner Worthington: "Was there anything insulting or offensive in the language of the letter the mayor brought you that made you refuse to receive it?
Commissioner Kernan: "Was any other motive behind the strike other than to force a settlement with Mr. Pullman?
Commissioner Worthington: "When you rebuked the mayor did you think it derogatory to bear a respectful message looking to a peaceful settlement of the difficulty?
Commissioner Kernan: "Do you consider burning cars a species of rioting?
Commissioner Kernan: "Is it not true that the roads were united sympathetically?
Commissioner Kernan: "Is not time enough allowed to finish the work so that such instances would be due to the neglect of the man who took the job?
Commissioner Worthington: "Did those men serve as employes of the road while acting as marshals?
Dudley Mann, Confederate commissioner at Brussels, saw what an international quicksand was the favor of Napoleon.
In May the Speaker of the North Carolina Legislature assured a commissioner from Georgia that North Carolina would never consent to the movement of troops "from or across" the State to attack a seceding State.
Hamilton was staying with Sanders--late Commissioner of a certain group of Territories--and Bones was the subject of conversation one morning at breakfast.
He's a commissioner or something on the West Coast, and retired.
Recommendation of forCommissioner of War Office, 301.
Particular attention is called to the Reports of the United States Commissioner of Education from the year 1895 to the present time.
From the scraps of letters laid upon the table, it appeared that no commissioner had been appointed for this purpose.
A royal commissioneris present at the meetings of the general assembly, but he need not be a member of the Kirk; and there is no constitutional tie between the crown and the Kirk such as there is in England.
He enjoyed the favour of the king, and in 1602 was appointed a commissioner to negotiate the union with England.
After the accession of his late majesty, Mr. Philips was made a justice of peace, and appointed a commissioner of the lottery.
So far as the census is concerned, it tends to confirm these statistics of the Commissioner of Immigration.
The Lord Commissioner being informed of that, sent a party of the foot guards, and took possession of the Netherbow, which is a gate in the middle of the High Street, as Temple Bar between the City of London and the Court.
Cape Town is the seat of Government and the capital, and is governed by a High Commissioner and Governor, a Ministry and Legislative Council, and a House of Assembly, both elected.
Steinberg, Commissioner of Justice, declared in the corridor that it was a lie, that he himself had visited the streets of Petrograd and had found everywhere that "all was quiet.
A new government was formed, called the Council of People's Commissaries, of which Nikolai Lenine was President and Leon Trotzky Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.
In the afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed is one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so small a vessel.
The Park Commissioner and the Commissioner of Polis and the Forestry Commission gets together and agrees to let the people sleep in the parks until the Weather Bureau gets the thermometer down again to a living basis.
Twill be fine and imprisonment for insoolting the Park Commissioner and the Chief of the Weather Bureau if ye refuse.
