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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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COMMISSIONER, n. A person who has a commission or warrant from proper authority, to perform some office, or execute some business, for the person or government which employs him, and gives him authority; as commissoners for settling the bounds of a state, or for adjusting claims.
A person who has a commission or warrant
to perform some office, or execute some business, for the
government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a
commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust
claims.
To another address which requested that a
commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in
Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the
Commons to name the commissioners. An officer having charge of some
department or bureau of the public service.
Herbert was first commissioner of the
Admiralty. The commissioner of patents, the
commissioner of the land office, the commissioner
of Indian affairs, are subordinates of the secretary of the
interior. Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [U. S.] -- County commissioners, certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [U. S.] | ||||||||