Each colony is now governed by an elective council of inhabitants, with committees for education, police, and the arbitration of disputes, and they have organised co-operative unions which make them independent of middlemen in the disposal of their produce.

The first half of the book is practical: reports of committees, and so forth; the second is sentimental; verses by Bernard Barton, William Lisle Bowles, and many others; short stories of kidnapped children forced to the horrid business; and kindred themes.

They established, therefore, in all the districts where it was possible Committees of Permanence in connection with us, the Central Committee, and composed either of Representatives or of faithful citizens.

I am not prepared to say, but when evidence is given before Parliamentary Committees it is sometimes difficult to understand its exact meaning.

To prevent the putting of boys in large numbers into "blind alley" occupations, you must supplement the foresight of parents with Juvenile Employment Exchanges and After-Care Committees.

On the other side the committees of the kirk and estates exulted in the prospect of executing the vengeance of God upon "the sectaries;" and afraid that the enemy should escape, compelled their general to depart from his usual caution, and to make preparation for battle.

"They spent their time in little matters, such as choosing of committees; and among other things, to consider of the privileges and jurisdiction of their house, (good wise souls!) before they knew what their house was, or should be called.

The Bolshevik method of military organisation,namely, of "Battle Committees," which decided what superior commands should be carried out or rejectedhad been swept away and replaced by the disciplined methods of the German and Austrian officers, who had now assumed command.

Women can do much useful public service upon boards of education, school committees, and public charities, and are beginning to do such work.

But can one help suggesting that if the movement had been to place women, merely and directly, upon the committees, by votes of men who saw that this work might be in great part best done by them; if women had asked and offered for the place without the jostle of the town-meeting, or putting in that wedge for the ballotthe thing might have been as readily done, and the objection, or political precedent, avoided.

How will it be when Norah, and Maggie, and Katie have not only their mass and confession, their Fourth-of-July and Christmas, their mission-weeks, their social engagements and family plans, and their appointments with their dress-makers, to curtail your claims upon their bargained time and service, but their share in the primary meetings and caucuses, committees, and torch-light processions, and mass meetings?

It has received a favorable consideration by committees of both branches, but as yet there has been no final action upon it.

These hundred-meetings enacted by-laws, levied taxes, appointed committees, and often exhibited a vigorous political life.

[Sidenote: Committees of Correspondence (1772-75).

In 1772, as we have seen, committees of correspondence between the towns of Massachusetts acted as a sort of provisional government for the commonwealth.

In 1773 Dabney Carr, of Virginia, enlarged upon this idea, and committees of correspondence were forthwith instituted between the several colonies.

Important executive matters were at first assigned to committees, such as the Finance Committee and the Board of War, though at the most trying time the finance committee was a committee of one, in the person of Robert Morris, who was commonly called the Financier.

4. Committees of correspondence: a. The circular letter of Massachusetts in 1768.

b. Town committees of correspondence in Massachusetts in 1772.

c. Colonial committees of correspondence in 1773.

The habit established through these committees.

He also appoints the committees of the House of Representatives, and as the initiatory work in our legislation is now so largely done by the committees, this makes him the most powerful officer of the government except the President.

He also appoints the committees of the House of Representatives, and as the initiatory work in our legislation is now so largely done by the committees, this makes him the most powerful officer of the government except the President.

Why, when I come down here to regulate these committees, I lose a pound a day.

The lodges will not suppose, for the honor of their committees, that such a proceeding will take place, and accordingly the unfavorable report of the committee is always to be considered as a rejection.