He purchased a commission in the army, but sold it without serving.

However, the commission also recommended that the French work on the Panama Canal should be taken over if it could be purchased for no more than $ 40, 000, 000.

His father purchased an ensign's commission for Montgomery, who joined the 17th Regiment of Foot.

That same year his father, then Colonel of the 55th Foot ( later renumbered the 44th ), purchased a commission for Charles as an Ensign in the same regiment.

He purchased a Lieutenant's commission in 1751.

Lee purchased a Captain's commission in the 44th in 1756.

In 2000, the county commission purchased land adjacent to the old Post Office to build a new courthouse and sheriff's office.

As was usual at the time Brock's commission was purchased.

The commission purchased of land to form the Town of Jeffersonton, later named Jefferson.

In August 1737 Burgoyne purchased a commission in the Horse Guards a fashionable cavalry regiment.

* The first was a brig purchased in 1841 to support the U. S. Exploring Expedition and in commission until 1845.

In January 1741 he purchased a lieutenant's commission in the 1st Northampton Regiment, where he stayed until May 1742, when he transferred to Battereau's Regiment with the rank of captain-lieutenant.

In 1748 he purchased a major's commission and transferred to the 55th Foot Regiment ( which was later renumbered to the 44th ).

A front-end load or sales charge is a commission paid to a broker by a mutual fund when shares are purchased.

Homecare is purchased by the service user directly from independent home care agencies or as part of the statutory responsibility of social services departments of local authorities who either provide care by their own employees or commission services from independent agencies.

He sold his commission in 1754 and purchased a captaincy in one of the New York Independent Companies.

He was educated in a Jesuit school, and at age 16 his uncle purchased for him a commission in a company of dragoons of the French Army.

Abercrombie was born in Glassaugh, Banffshire, Scotland to a wealthy family, and purchased a major's commission to enter the army in 1742.

The first ship in commission was the which was purchased on 4 November and commissioned on 3 December by Captain Dudley Saltonstall.

*, was an auxiliary cruiser purchased for use in the Spanish-American War and in commission during 1898

Bison have been kept in Golden Gate Park since 1891, when a small herd was purchased by the park commission.

The first ship in commission was the which was purchased on 4 November and commissioned on 3 December by Captain Dudley Saltonstall.

In 1744, with financial assistance from his father, Grey purchased a commission as an ensign in the 6th Regiment of Foot.

As the third son, he could inherit neither the title nor land, so his father purchased a commission for him in the British Army.

Goebbels's interest in Fallada's work would lead the writer to a world of worry: he would subsequently suggest the writer compose an anti-Semitic tract, and his praise indirectly resulted in Fallada's commission to write a novel that would be the basis for a state-sponsored film charting the life of a German family up to 1933.

Meanwhile, Slartibartfast shows Arthur the vast tract of hyperspace that acts as the Magrathean's " factory floor ", and that they have been brought out of hibernation for a special commission — " the Earth Mk 2, we're making a copy from our original blueprints ".

A federal commission, led by local attorney and party activist Daniel Walker, later investigated the events surrounding the convention and described them as a " police riot.

The White City of the World's Colombian Exposition inspired the Merchant's Club of Chicago to commission Daniel Burnham to create the Plan of Chicago in 1909, which became the first modern comprehensive city plan in America.

Many notable lawyers, including Daniel Webster and William Wirt, represented claimants before the commission.

Initially the statue of Wisconsin on the top of the dome was promised to Helen Farnsworth Mears but when Daniel Chester French agreed to produce the finial figure, the commission was switched to him.

In April 1984, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii proposed that the Senate commission an official flag using the design of the Senate seal.

In January 1791, the President proceeded to appoint, in accordance with the Residence Act, a three-member commission, consisting of Daniel Carroll, Thomas Johnson and David Stuart, to oversee the surveying of the federal district, and appointed Andrew Ellicott as surveyor.

In 1811, after Peck's retirement from active politics, Governor Daniel D. Tompkins appointed Peck chairman of a five man commission to study the problem of public school education.

John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, travelled to Italy to recruit veterans of the Papal War, and met with Keogh and his comrades. Thus in March 1862 Keogh resigned his commission in the Company of Saint Patrick, and with his senior officer – 30-year-old Daniel J. Keily of Waterford – returned briefly to Ireland, then boarded the steamer " Kangaroo " bound from Liverpool to New York, where the vessel arrived April 2.

Other than the aforementioned Arkansas border commission, Daniel Dunklin turned the remaining years of his life to his business and family matters.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board agreed to submit each month a report for one of its 12 commissions, so that each commission will report once a year on some phase of its work calculated to be of particular interest and value to medical officers of the Armed Forces.

In transit or on station, it may not be possible to attack the submarines until commission of an overt act.

The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the cease-fire by the international control commission before participating in the Geneva conference.

Mr. Martinelli explained that there should be more than enough signatures to assure the scheduling of a vote on the home rule charter and possible election of a nine member charter commission within 70 days.

He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan ballot for posts on the charter commission.

He did it because he knows for each guy he puts out of commission that's one less who might take his job away later on.

Gershwin composed the piece on commission from the New York Philharmonic.

The President also reassured many by his decisiveness in ordering the establishment of a military commission on May 1, 1865 to try the surviving conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination.

It was toward the end of this extended period of study that Gassmann was called away on a new opera commission and a gap in the theater's program allowed for Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa.

Furthermore, they claim that in the Bible there's no evidence showing that the office must be conveyed by laying on of hands and no Biblical command that it must be by a special class of bishops ( the laying on of hands is repeatedly used to give a commission to some person in scripture.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

When the office of Lord High Admiral was in commission, as it was for most of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries until it reverted to the Crown, it was exercised by a Board of Admiralty, officially known as the Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, & c. ( alternatively of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland depending on the period ).

Commercial exchanges make money by charging a commission on each transaction either all on the buy side, all on the sell side, or a combination of both.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

Joe Sheehan from Baseball Prospectus wrote that the commission has been focusing " blame for the era exclusively on uniformed personnel ", and failing to investigate any role played by team ownership and management.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped in as a mediator and chaired a tripartite summit with the two countries ' presidents on 15 November 2002, which established a commission to facilitate the peaceful implementation of the ICJ's judgement.

Masterspy Rade Malobabić, Serbian Military Intelligence's top agent against Austria-Hungary, was arrested on his return from Austria-Hungary after the assassination, but was also later released and given a commission running an army supply store.

Due to the time he needed to devote to the commission, and contrary to a promise MacDonald made to Attlee to induce him to serve on the commission, he was not initially offered a ministerial post in the Second Labour Government.