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DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 962 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS .—From timh to See also:

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

time all the See also:

government departments, with the exception of the See also:

India See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office, See also:

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit such papers as they wish to preserve in the Public See also:

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

Record Office; thus the See also:

TREASURY

Treasury, See also:

Home Office, See also:

FOREIGN

Foreign Office, Colonial Office, See also:

ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

Admiralty, See also:

War Office, See also:

LOCAL

Local Government See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board and Board of See also:

Trade have all placed important papers in the care of the See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

Master of the Rolls. A See also:

CALENDAR

calendar of the earlier Treasury Papers, which extends from 1660 to 1668 and 1720 to 1745 has been published; also a See also:

list of the Admiralty Records (No. XVII.). For each See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department a limiting date is fixed from time to time; documents before that time are open to students; later ones are only accessible under See also:

SPECIAL

special conditions.

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