"Depute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Indian Affairs shall depute and send a suitable person to determine and set apart the reserves for each band, after consulting with the Indians thereof as to the locality which may be found to be most ...
— The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba - and the North-West Territories • Alexander Morris
... frank; and ever so many other public officers. There is no limit in number to the letters so franked, and the nuisance has extended itself to so huge a size that members of Congress, in giving franks, cannot write the franks themselves. It is illegal for them to depute to others the privilege of signing their names for this purpose, but it is known at the post-office that it is done. But even this is not the worst of it. Members of the House of Representatives have the power of sending through the post all those huge books which, with them as with us, grow ...
— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope
... "Le depute, au lieu de representer la majorite des electeurs, devient prisonnier de la minorite qui lui a donne l'appoint necessaire ...
— Proportional Representation - A Study in Methods of Election • John H. Humphreys
... course of conversation we asked, how it was that so far from the city they had heard of our having boys to dispose of, and it was pleasant to hear that the weekly 'Christian' was the link that led them to depute a relative to watch for our passing through Montreal. Family worship closed this ...
— God's Answers - A Record Of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the - Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada • Clara M. S. Lowe
... published in 1878. Burns was first admitted in St. David's (Tarbolton) Lodge in July, 1781. At the separation preferred to he became a member of the new lodge, St. James's, of which, two years afterwards, he was depute-master.] ...
— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
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