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At this moment, and as the greatest noblemen present were offering their arms to aid him in walking, a man in the robe of a referendary advanced toward him, saluting him with a complacent and confident smile which astonished all the people there, accustomed to the great world, seeming to say: "We have secret affairs together; you shall see how agreeable he makes himself to me.

If any affair was to be expedited, I, by a third hand, was obliged to send the referendary some ducats. Did he give judgment, still that judgment lay fourteen months inefficient, and, when it then appeared, the copy was false, and so was sent to the upper courts, the high referendary of which said I "must be dislodged from Zwerbach." They obliged me at last to purchase my naturalisation.

This time he was made a Referendary under the Great Seal, Baron, and Officer of the Legion of Honor.

They belong to the grand officers and to the first officers of the civil and military households of the King, to the major-generals of the royal guard and the lieutenant-general in service, to the cardinals, to the Chancellor of France, to the minister-secretaries of State, to the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, to the marshals of France, to the Grand Referendary of the Chamber of Peers, to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, and to all the officers of the King's household on service.

A mother, my sweet, is hardly called on to be a Decius, especially at a time when the type is rare. In fifteen years from now, l'Estorade will be able to retire to La Crampade on a good pension, having found a place as referendary for Armand in the Audit Department. As for Rene, the navy will doubtless make a diplomatist of him.

Many instances I could produce, but I am too much agitated by the recollection. I must speak a word concerning who and what my curators were. The Court Counsellor, Kempf, was my administrator, and Counsellor Huttner my referendary.

To prevent the measure from becoming law, the petition must receive the legally attested signatures of at least 3,500 citizens about one in six of the cantonal vote within thirty days after the publication of the proposed measure. After this period known as "the first delay" the referendary vote, if the petition has been successful, must take place within forty days "the second delay."

Then, advancing somewhat before the Canons and Capuchins who were with him, he pronounced, in a shrill voice, this singular decree: "We, Sieur de Laubardemont, referendary, being delegated and invested with discretionary power in the matter of the trial of the magician Urbain Grandier, upon the various articles of accusation brought against him, assisted by the reverend Fathers Mignon, canon, Barre, cure of St.

When he heard the firing he had left the room where he was waiting for me, and not being able to find his way back, had been to see a friend. May 3, 1848. On February 24 the Duke and Duchess Decazes were literally driven from the Luxembourg. And by whom? By the very denizens of the palace, all employes of the Chamber of Peers, all appointed by the grand referendary.

The latter, at the annual convention at Toledo, in November, 1891, recommended that the Referendum form a part of the government machinery throughout the United States. The Knights being in some respects a secret organization, data as to referendary votings are not always made public. Direct legislation has long been familiar to the members of the International Cigar-Makers' Union.