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WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, BOARD OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 831 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, See also:
BOARD (O. Eng. bord)
BOARD OF , an administrative See also:

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

department in See also:

England. In 1832 the public works and buildings of See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain were for the first See also:

time placed under the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of a responsible See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the See also:

CROWN

crown, and were assigned to the commissioners of See also:

woods and forests. In. 1851 the .department of public works was erected into a board under the name of 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 of Works and Public Buildings. The first See also:

COMMISSIONER

commissioner of works is the See also:

head of the board, and has the custody of the royal palaces and parks and of all public buildings not specially assigned to other departments; he is a member of the See also:

government and frequently has a seat in the See also:

CABINET

cabinet.

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