The call of the Cite has been heeded, and to-day these ninety-six commissioners of the Sections have named a superior committee of nine.
That he be conducted by stages to the frontier, and that there the commissioners of the Republic who shall have so far escorted him shall solemnly present to this last of the Kings--their boots in his rear, and send him to the devil.
Close beside her was Petion, one of thecommissioners of the Assembly, grave and severe.
For the rest, the Assembly has sent commissioners after the King, and we hope that they will succeed in reaching him before he gains the frontier.
Large storage tanks have been constructed by the sanitary commissioners with specially prepared collecting areas high up the Rock.
He refused to report to the president of the province appointments of incumbents; he refused also to allow the government commissioners to inspect the seminaries for priests, and when he was summoned before the new court refused to appear.
He advised that the commissioners should be surrendered at once rather than to leave to Great Britain the opportunity for making a dictatorial demand.
Then the decree giving citizenship to the blacks was restored, and commissioners were sent out to keep the peace.
The commissioners were brought to Boston and were there kept under arrest awaiting the decision from Washington as to their status.
When the news of the capture of the commissioners came to Washington, Seward for once was in favour of a conservative rather than a truculent course of action.
Stephens and two other commissioners to talk over measures for bringing the War to a close.
After dinner my Lord took me alone and walked with me, giving me an account of the meeting of the Commissioners for Accounts, whereof he is one.
Carteret at home, and talked with him a while, and find that the new Commissionersof the Treasury did meet this morning.
By water to White Hall to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the first time I ever was there and I think the second that they have met at the Treasury chamber there.
He being gone, I to several businesses in my chamber, and then by coach to the Commissioners of Excise, and so to Westminster Hall, and there spoke with several persons I had to do with.
The Railroad Commissioners report that the average expenses of all the railroads of the Commonwealth is seventy-five per cent.
Commissioners have been appointed to consider the subject and no result has followed.
The returns to the railroad commissioners show that the average expense of operating the railroads of this State is seventy-five per cent.
The policy of direct state ownership was strongly pressed upon the Committee by the railroad commissioners and other parties.
A Board of Railroad Commissionershas been formed, which has been productive of great good both to the railroad corporations, and to the people.
For five papers we are indebted to Soame Jenyns, who held the office and rank of one of the Lords Commissioners of the Board of Trade and Plantations.
Office, Old Jewry The Commissioners were originally appointed under the Statute of 26 Geo.
The Marquis of Wellesley declared in the British House of Lords, that, "in his opinion the American Commissionershad shown the most astonishing superiority over the British, during the whole of the correspondence.
The British Commissionerswere Lord Gambier, Henry Goulburn, and Wm.
Anderson and John Sargeant, as commissionersto the Congress of Panama, and Wm.
Troup, President Madison sent two Commissioners to make a treaty with the Creeks, for the purchase of their lands, and the removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi.
The British Government, however, refused to treat under the mediation of Russia; but proposed at the same time to meet American Commissioners either at London or Gottenburg.
The American commissioners were treated with marks of highest respect, by the citizens of Ghent, and the public authorities of that town.
Conferences were held by the Commissioners with Count Romanzoff, the Chancellor of the Russian Empire, with a view to open negotiations.
The letters of the American Commissioners to the Government at home, in the early stages of the proceedings, were couched in desponding tones.
Before leaving Ghent, the American Commissioners gave a public dinner to the British Ambassadors, at which the Intendant of Ghent, and numerous staff officers of the Hanoverian service, were present.
Learning there that the place for the meeting of the Commissioners had been changed to Ghent, in Belgium, Mr. Adams proceeded to Gottenburg.
In 1793 British troops were landed and the French commissioners in desperation declared the slaves emancipated.
Commissioners were sent from France, who asked simply civil rights for freedmen, and not emancipation.
Both parties, however, continuing alike resolute, the Commissionersof the Queen of Scots intimated, that in so far as they were concerned, the conference might be considered closed.
On the 11th of October, Elizabeth's Commissioners arrived, the great hall of the Castle having been previously fitted up as a court-room for their reception.
The Commissioners then took their departure, secretly congratulating themselves, that, by a mixture of cunning and ferocity, they had gained their end.
She soon, however, regained her self-possession; and informing the Commissioners that she desired to be left alone to make her preparations, she dismissed them for the night.
When the commissioners arrived at Lochleven, Sir Robert Melville, knowing that Lindsay was personally disagreeable to his Sovereign, came to her at first alone.
He was one of the commissionersin the inquiry instituted by Cromwell prior to the suppression of the monasteries, but he did not obtain any share of the spoils.
In 1816 he was selected by the commissioners of public records to write the introduction to Domesday Book, a task which he discharged with much learning, though several of his views have not stood the test of later criticism.
A tablet, let into the wall, contains an epitaph by Lord Cockburn, recording Shanks's services to the venerable pile, which has since been entrusted to the custody of the commissioners of woods and forests.
After tedious disputes with the tariff commissioners as to the opium duty, and a visit to the upper waters of the Yang-tzse, Lord Elgin had reached England in May 1859.
On the other hand, nearly all these commissioners are brokers or second-hand dealers who alone know the value of rarities, and openly depreciate them in order to buy them in themselves, "and thus ensure for themselves exorbitant profits.
These commissioners (of the quarter) notify the exclusives, and even swindlers, when warrants are out against them.
Two commissioners of the Committee who emptied the storehouse without our warrant, and even without having any power from the Committee.
Instructions for the civil commissioners by Hérault, representative of the people, Colmar, Frimaire 2, year II.
I have dispatched commissioners to push the Constitutional Act through the primary assemblies.
A few patriotic commissioners have already denounced several of their brethren accused of loving royalty and federalism.
What it was right to do there, and what we are bound to do now, must not be obscured by faults of hesitation or insufficient preparation, for which neither the Peace Commissioners nor the people are responsible.
Warned by the results of inquiry as to the origin of the Cuban debt, the American Commissioners avoided undertaking to assume this en bloc.
When your Peace Commissioners were brought face to face with the retention of the Philippines, they were at liberty to consider the question it raised for immediate action in the light of both sides of the national practice.
And yet, under all these conditions, the most difficult task your Peace Commissioners had at Paris was to maintain and defend the demand for a renunciation of sovereignty without anybody's acceptance of the sovereignty thus renounced.
It was the first public utterance by any one of the Peace Commissioners after the ratification of the Treaty of Paris.
The American Commissioners pronounced it alike repugnant to common sense and menacing to liberty and civilization.
When it became necessary to put the Philippine case into an ultimatum, the Peace Commissioners did not further refer to the debt or give any specific reason either for a cession or for a payment.
It may choose arbitration, or it may choose war; but the American Commissioners flatly refused to let it choose war, and then, after defeat, claim still the right to call in arbitrators and put again at risk before them the verdict of war.
At the conclusion of the interview, which had lasted for upwards of two hours, the commissioners thanked Nat very cordially.
It is true that their commissioners at Cape Francois have issued a proclamation offering a free pardon to all who have been concerned in the insurrection, and freedom and equal rights to men of all colour.
This he had sent ashore as soon as he anchored; and the commissioners were discussing the news when Nat and Monsieur Duchesne were shown in.
The commissioners had, the night before, sent to a negro chief, offering pardon for all past offences, perfect freedom, and the plunder of the city.
The commissioners had with them the regular troops, and a large body of blacks.
A decree was made, "that ten commissioners should divide the kingdom, which Micipsa had possessed, between Jugurtha and Adherbal.
The rest of the commissioners he assailed in a similar way, and gained over most of them; by a few only integrity was more regarded than lucre.
The commissioners of both Governments met in New Orleans in August last.
These Commissionerssay that the Indian drug is almost invariably used to mix with the Chinese article to flavour and make it, so to speak, the more palatable.
The information upon which these Commissioners made up their returns is simply the gossip collected by them at the Treaty Ports of China: no doubt the best, and, indeed, the only, information which they could procure.
Nothing proves this so completely as the correspondence between Sir Robert Hart and his various Sub-Commissioners of Customs, as set out in the Yellow-Book to which I have so often referred.
But, when the commissioners first commenced, they had no idea that the disease extended further than those herds in which there were animals sick.
Mr. Walker, one of the commissioners appointed by the Governor, made the following statement: "The disease was introduced into North Brookfield from Belmont.
The practice adopted by the commissioners was, to appraise the cattle whenever a herd was found which had been exposed, and a surgeon was appointed to pass judgment upon the number of diseased animals.
In regard to Leonard Stoddard's cattle, he lost fourteen of his animals before the commissioners went to his place.
The commissioners became entirely dissatisfied with that condition of things, because other measures besides merely killing and burying, are quite as necessary and important.
The law confines the commissioners to one operation,--killing and burying.
It assumed such proportions that it was very evident that the commissioners had not the funds to perform the operations required by the law.
Seven or eight animals died before the commissioners got there.
At Newbattle, the Queen Regent, with her Council of the French faction, decreed war, without giving any intimation to the Commissioners for Scotland.
The principal commissionersof the churches, the superintendents, and some ministers went to see them at the Abbot's lodging within Holyroodhouse.
The same year, and at that instant time, Commissioners were appointed by the General Assembly.
After this, the Commissioners of Burghs, with some of the nobility and barons, were appointed to see to the equal distribution of ministers, and to change and transpose as the majority should think expedient.
The agents shall be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question.
It will be the duty of the Commissioners to recommend the Government, through the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, to give you cattle of a better breed.
I want to tell the Commissioners there are two ways, the long and the short.
Here Mr. Laird was waiting to receive us, the other Commissioners having departed for Fort McMurray and Wahpoośkow.
You say you have heard what the Commissioners have said, and how you wish to live.
After the treaty is signed, the Commissioners will take up half-breed claims.
Next morning these Commissioners left for Smith's Landing, and, on the 17th, made treaty with the Indians of Great Slave Lake.
Mr. Laird, with his staff, left Winnipeg for Edmonton by the Canadian Pacific express on the 22nd of May, two of the Commissioners having preceded him to that point.
In the middle was safety, and therefore the Commissioners decided to pitch camp on a beautiful flat facing the south and fronting the channel, and midway between the two opposing points of trade.
The Commissioners made an appointment to meet you at a certain time, but on account of bad weather on river and lake, we are late, which we are sorry for, but are glad to meet so many of you here to-day.
On the question of bimetallism, in reference to the actual and to any possible currency system, the commissioners disagreed, and made separate reports.
Imperial Commissioners at Frankfort set the gold gulden at 80 kr.
In this treaty the Commissioners promised altogether too much.
Congress had tried hard to bring about peace with the southern Indians, both by sending commissioners to them and by trying to persuade the three southern States to enter into mutually beneficial treaties with them.
Commissioners (one of whom was Clark himself) were appointed to treat with both the northern and southern Indians.
The Federal Commissioners thereupon declined to enter into negotiations; but those from Georgia persevered.
Later, when he was one of the Commissioners to treat for peace, they practically repeated the blunder by instructing Jay and his colleagues to assent to whatever France proposed.
That sporadic cases of smuggling long continued in these districts, as elsewhere, after the smuggling era was really ended, we may see from one of the annual reports issued by the Commissioners of Customs.
It is best read of in the anonymous letter written to the Commissioners of Customs by a person who, for fear of the smuggling gangs, was afraid to disclose his real name, and subscribed himself “Goring.
The futility of these extraordinary steps is emphasised by the report of the Commissioners of Customs to the Treasury in 1733, that immense smuggling operations were being conducted in Kent, Sussex, Essex, and Suffolk.
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