They are ex officio justices of the peace, but are just as apt to be asked to settle a head-hunting feud between towns, which has caused a dozen bloody murders, as a quarrel growing out of the joint ownership of a pig.
All of the justices of the peace except those who serve ex officio are Filipinos, and the secretary of finance and justice is a Filipino as well.
That Commission was composed principally of State officers as ex-officio members, and while its work was excellent its progress was unavoidably slow.
It is made up of ex officio members, to bring into efficient cooperation several well-established departments that have long dealt with some phase or other of Conservation.
The delegate to congress had resigned, and the government of the territory had been cast upon the secretary, Mr. John Catlin, who became governor ex-officio on the vacancy happening in the office of governor.
To each of these circuits is assigned one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Washington, who is the ex- officio judge of that circuit, and who therefore travels as do our common law judges.
The Vice-President of the United States, who is elected with the President, and who is not a Senator by election from any State, is the ex-officio President of the Senate.
The Curatorium is composed of five members, of which body the Chancellor of the Empire is ex-officio chairman.
The writer has remained on the executive committee from the beginning, as either an elected or an ex-officio member.
I quietly investigated the surveyor-general of the state, who is also ex-officio Registrar of the State Land Office.
Later they suggested that the number should be nine or eleven, exclusive of ex-officio members.
The township trustees, 1016 in number, are ex-officio overseers of the poor.
Inquisition at Rome, published what may be regarded as the first Roman Index in the modern ecclesiastical use of that term (Index auctorum et librorum qui tanquam haeretici aut suspecti aut perversi ab Officio S.
The choice of representatives on these from our delegation was made, and an ex-officio membership of all three falls to me.
November 5th, Sheriff James Buckley, who was ex officio tax collector, was appointed county assessor in place of S.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "officio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
