0 a government official with a particular responsibility: --
1 a shop that supplies food and goods, especially to people in the army or in prison --
In the latter, the commissary had responsibility for testamentary matters only, the archdeacon for all others.
Perhaps we are dealing not with an inconsistent commissary so much as an inconsistent method of recording.
The commissary department employed a committee of officers to survey elephants whenever they were procured for public service.
Close examination of a run of commissary wills discloses common reliance on parishioners who may, quite intentionally, have been earning respect.
As the title implies, the office of commissary was granted by revocable commission.
Since the bishop's own authority was far from clearly defined, it was impossible to specify more exactly the powers of the commissary.
As supervisory offices the document specified government agencies or commissaries to be granted the authority to inspect all fields and order the destruction of infested fields.
Although the royal letters patent allowed them to act on the bishop's behalf in attempting to supervise the clergy, the commissaries were not themselves in episcopal orders.
