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FIRST CLASS Civilians of 28 years' See also:

STANDING

standing to See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank with See also:

Major-Generals. See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

Advocate See also:

General, See also:

CALCUTTA

Calcutta. Residents at See also:

FOREIGN

Foreign Courts and Residents at See also:

ADEN

Aden, the See also:

Persian Gulf and See also:

BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad. Recorders of See also:

MOULMEIN (or MAULMEIN)

Moulmein and See also:

RANGOON

Rangoon. See also:

ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

Advocates-General, See also:

MADRAS

Madras and Bombay. Members of the Boards of See also:

Revenue, See also:

Bengal, Madras, See also:

North-See also:

West Provinces. Secretaries to See also:

LOCAL

Local Governments. See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

Chief Engineer, 1st Class. See also:

COMPTROLLER

Comptroller-General of Accounts in See also:

India. See also:

DIRECTORS

Directors-General, See also:

POST

Post 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, Telegraphs and See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

Irrigation. Judicial Commissioners, Oude, Central Provinces, See also:

MYSORE

Mysore and See also:

SIND

Sind. See also:

FINANCIAL

Financial Commissioners in the Punjaub, Oude and Central Provinces.

See also:

Arch-. See also:

DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon of Calcutta. Secretary to See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

Governor-General for making See also:

LAWS

Laws, &c. See also:

OFFICERS

Officers Commanding Brigades. ' This subject was considered by the See also:

House of Lords in See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1628, on the proposition of a See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee that no foreign See also:

NOBILITY

nobility has right of See also:

PRECEDENCE (from Lat. praecedere, to go before, precede)

precedence within this See also:

REALM

realm before any peer of this See also:

KINGDOM

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