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His style and spirit suited the temper of the representatives, and they kept him occupied as chairman of a committee to answer messages from the Government, and, indeed, messages from anybody who might assail the patriot party. In the meantime the animosity between him and the Governor of the province waxed hot.
We next crossed the airing-yard, where many persons were industriously engaged at slop-work, for which they are paid, and after receiving what they require, the rest is kept for them by the Committee, who have a receipt-book, where their earning and their expenditure may be seen at any time, by the day or week.
"No, but he ought to be to have won favor in the sight of a committee appointed by the Boston City Government." "Come," said Helen; "that is rather severe when Mr. Hubbard is on the committee." "Oh, I don't mind," returned Hubbard. "I know Fenton wouldn't lose a chance of having his fling at the Irish."
In the meantime I'll see the chairman of the committee on that bill one of the so-called 'pork' bills it is. Possibly from him and some other acquaintances of mine I may learn something. At any rate, you come to dinner." So the invitation was accepted, and Captain Cy went back to his own hotel and his room.
The congress resolves that a committee be appointed to address communications to the principal political, religious, commercial, and labor and peace organizations, requesting them to send petitions to the governmental authorities praying that measures be taken for the formation of suitable tribunals for the adjudicature of international questions so as to avoid the resort to war.
It is true that the members of the congregation had power to elect a committee, but the powers of that committee were strictly limited. It dealt with business matters only, and all members of the Elders' Conference were ex officio members of the Committee. We can see, then, what this curious system meant.
Sometimes, as, for example, in a common private school, the parents are not organized, and whatever influence they exert they must exert in their individual capacity. At other times, as in a common district or town school, they are by law organized, and the school committee chosen for this purpose are their legal representatives.
As stated elsewhere, the club's written and unwritten code of ethics in big-game hunting is very strict. In course of time a Committee on Game Protection was formed, and it actively entered that field. JOHN M. PHILLIPS Member, Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners EDWARD A. McILHENNY Founder of Wild-Fowl Preserves in Louisiana
The Emperor looked puzzled. He was waxing old and feeble, and his memory was failing. "What!" he said, "have the Picards got a Confession?" He was soon to hear the real truth of the matter. For some months there had sat in Prague a committee of learned divines, who had met for the purpose of drawing up a National Protestant Bohemian Confession. The dream of Augusta seemed to be coming true.
There is unanimity of opinion that civics shall be taught from the elementary school onwards: "We believe," runs the report of the Committee of Eight of the American Historical Association, "that elementary civics should permeate the entire school life of the child.
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