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The middle of February began the removal of the ordnance and commissary stores by railroad to the south of the rivers in our rear.
There was no commissary department, there were no uniforms, no arrangements for ammunition, no small arms, no cannon, no resources to draw upon for all these necessaries of war.
The commissaries therefore suspended their decision until the result of that action was known.
However, from 1684 onwards the commissaries (judges) kept registers of extracted decreets, and process papers were also kept in a more systematic fashion.
Likewise, in the commissary's court between 1589 and 1591 only 18 debt cases (13 per cent) had their origins in defaults from formal, written bonds.
Most of them - twelve in 1608, thirteen in 1625, all fourteen in 1636 - were diocesan chancellors, commissaries, or archdeacon's officials.
He could appoint commissaries to act on his behalf and remove them from office when necessary.
In 1703 the bishop was still claiming that his commissaries were entitled to censure scandals among the laity.
The act books of both the vice-chancellor's and commissary's courts are testimony to the increasing volume of wide-ranging litigation that occupied the university courts during this period.
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.
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.
Since the bishop's own authority was far from clearly defined, it was impossible to specify more exactly the powers of the commissary.
As the title implies, the office of commissary was granted by revocable commission.
Close examination of a run of commissary wills discloses common reliance on parishioners who may, quite intentionally, have been earning respect.
The commissary department employed a committee of officers to survey elephants whenever they were procured for public service.
Perhaps we are dealing not with an inconsistent commissary so much as an inconsistent method of recording.
In the latter, the commissary had responsibility for testamentary matters only, the archdeacon for all others.
