Commissaire

Member of commi ion or committee. Commi ioner. Superintendent (of police). Commi ary. Paymaster, purser (nav.). Commi aire-général; commi aire en chef; commi aire principal; commi aire de 1, 2 3, cla e, de la marine. Officers of naval paymaster branch ranking as vice or rear-admiral; post-captain or commander; commander; lieutenant or sub-lieutenant respectively. Commi aire-général (commi aire principal, commi aire), des troupes coloni a les. Administrative officers of the Colonial Army ranking as general of brigade, field officer and company officer respectively. Commi aire de réseau. Director of railway transport, of a system. Commi aire régulateur. Senior railway transport officer at a “gare régulatrice.”—Commi aire régulateur d’annexe. Ditto of “‘ gare annexe” (q.v.). Commi aire militaire de gare. Railway transport officer of a station.—Commii aire technique de gare. Official in technical charge of a station. Commii aire de surveillance de gare. Official in administrative charge of station. | Commi aire du Gouvernement. Prosecutor (court-martial).— Commi aire rapporteur. (Roughly =) deputy judge advocate-general. ’ Commi ariat. Commi ariat (obsolete). ‘Commi ion. Duty, charge. Commi ion; committee; board. Letter of service i ued to financial officers of the army by Treasury. Authority to N.C.O. to “ continue in the service ” after 15 years. (N.B.—Some of the committees not catalogued below bear the title com ité (q.v.). Commi ion de réception de chevaux. Board accepting horses requisitioned or offered on mobilization.—Commii ion d’achat. Horse-purchasing commi ion (peace).—Commi ion d’abatage. Board on horses to be destroyed or disposed of.—Commi ion de remonte.—Remounts Committee.— Commi ion de cla ement des chevaux et voitures.— Horse and vehicle census committee. Commi ion de 1’Armée. Military Committee of the Chamber of Deputies—Commi ion du budget. Budget Committee of the Chamber. Commi ion de réforme. Invaliding board.—Commi ion spéciale de réforme. Special invaliding board.— Commi ion de cla ement pour l’a van cement (Commi ion d’armes, Commi ion supérieure de cla ement). Selection board for promotions and honours (the last-named for lieutenant-colonels and higher ranks).— Commi ion d’examen. Examining board (of schools).— Commi ion de cla ement des sous-officiers.—Committee dealing with civil employment for ex-N.C.Os. Commi ion d’adjudication. Contracts committee. —Commi ion d’admi ion. Committee verifying integrity and capabilities of contractors.—Commi ion d’achat. Purchasing committee-—Commi ion de caserne ment. Barracks committee.—Commi ion de réception. Committee accepting stores from contract. — Commi ion d’examen des denrées ref usées. Board of appeal on questions of rejection of stores—Commi ion d’évaluation des indemnités. (Commi ion des dégats). Compensation commi ion (manceuvres, etc.). Commi ion d’expériences. Experimental committee (permanent or for special purpose)—Commi ion d’expériences d’artillerie. Ordnance committee.—Commii ion d’examen des inventions. Inventions Committee of War Office Commi ion d’études pratiques de tir. Gunnery Committee.—Commi ion des explosifs. Technical committee under the “Comité des Poudres et Salpétres.” —Commi ion des subs i stances. Higher intendance committee. Commi ion militaire supérieure des chemins de fer. Supreme railway committee of the War Office (peace).— Commi ion d’études des chemins de fer. Peace-time technical committee dealing with strategic use of railway systems. (Commi ion de ligne.—The same committee during the concentration period.) Commi ions de réseau. General railway working committees for a system (e.g., “Est.” )— Commi ion régulatrice des chemins defer. Railway traffic committee of an army line of communication.—Sous-commi ion de réseau. Corresponds in the “interior” to the “ Commi ions régula trices ” of the army zone. —Commi ion de gare.—Technical committee of a railway station (heads of branches). Commi ion régulatrice automobile. Committee regulating mechanical transport traffic in the zone of the armies.—Commii ion de navigation de campagne. Inland water transport committee under the “ Direction de |’Arriére.” Commi ion de contréle postal. Office of postal censorship. Commi ion de défense. Defence committee of a fortre , coast-defence committee. Commi ion mixte de travaux publics. Joint committee of military and civil authorities for considering land questions, etc., near fortre or frontiers.—Commii ion d’enquéte. Board, court of inquiry. — Commi ion des ordinaires. — Committee of “ ordinaire ”’ and regimental institutes—Commi ion des prix.—Prize Commi ion. [p.131]