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The doors were opened, and the head steward helped them down the ladder. "All ready!" shouted Captain Kendall, when the favorable moment came for setting the foresail. "Let go the brails!" bellowed the executive officer. "Haul out!"
The executive power here can secure for the convention ample authority to do such things without their being referred to the convention hereafter. Would it not be possible and best to adopt this course with these amendments to the treaty; will bring up here much discussion of many articles which can all be avoided and our purpose gained by above course.
Such are the principal differences which the systems of county and town administration present in the federal states. Were it my intention to examine the provisions of American law minutely, I should have to point out still farther differences in the executive details of the several communities.
Each year similarly account is rendered for the past civil year, which is closed by the District Council, and sent up to the Executive Council for final ratification. The District Council shall receive the ratification of the Volksraad beforehand before the raising of any tax.
The long lean figure erected itself in the chair, and the weight of years seemed to slip from its shoulders. "But I understood you to say that the duties of the executive had devolved upon me, Mr. Kent. You also said I could imagine the result of this singular mistaking of train-orders, and I fancied I could. What was the result?"
Cavaignac was now appointed chief of the Executive Commission with the title of President of the Council. A reaction favoring a monarchy was indicated; but meanwhile a new constitution provided for a quadriennial presidency, with a single legislature of seven hundred and fifty members.
alcalde: Governor of a province or district, with both executive and judicial authority. Ayuntamiento: A city corporation or council, and by extension the building in which it has its offices; specifically, in Manila, the capitol. balete: The Philippine banyan, a tree sacred in Malay folk-lore. banka: A dugout canoe with bamboo supports or outriggers.
There is also a military police under the control of the executive authorities of the several provinces, making altogether about 300,000 men capable of being mobilized on short notice in any emergency, about one-third of them being Englishmen and two-thirds natives.
I shall lay before the Congress further recommendations upon this subject, particularly in relation to the Department of the Interior. There are two directions of such reorganization, however, which have an important bearing upon the emergency problems with which we are confronted. At present the Shipping Board exercises large administrative functions independent of the Executive.
Lincoln stated to me that he had never professed to be a military man, or to know how campaigns should be conducted, and never wanted to interfere with them; but that procrastination on the part of his commanders, and the pressure of people at the North, and of Congress, had forced him into issuing the 'executive orders. He did not know but that they were all wrong, and did not know that some of them were."
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