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Definition of Resident commissioner
1. Noun. The representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resident Commissioner
Literary usage of Resident commissioner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Paraguay: With Notes of Personal Observations, and by Charles Ames Washburn (1871)
"A resident commissioner appointed to Paraguay. — He is accompanied by an Agent
of the Rhode Island Company. — Lieutenant William H. Macomb. ..."
2. The History of Paraguay: With Notes of Personal Observations, and by Charles Ames Washburn (1871)
"—A resident commissioner appointed to Paraguay. — He is accompanied by an Agent
of the Rhode Island Company. — Lieutenant William H. Macomb. ..."
3. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"delegated to htm by the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and the French
resident commissioner, representing the High Commis- «oner for France in ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"A resident commissioner is appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
and to assist the company's administrator there is an Executive Council, ..."
5. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1901)
"Section 39 provides for the election, biennially, of a resident commissioner to
the United States. No person shall be eligible who is not a bona fide ..."
6. The Hill Tribes of Fiji: A Record of Forty Years' Intimate Connection with by Adolph Brewster Brewster (1922)
"Four assessors were to sit with the resident commissioner in cases of murder,
and two for other offences. They exercised the functions of juries and were ..."
7. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"... at which the resident commissioner was not present, unanimously resolved to
grant aid to Allen's Hill School, county Armagh, and that the secretaries of ..."
8. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"[resident commissioner to United States.] That the qualified electors of Porto
Rico shall at the next general election choose a resident commissioner to the ..."
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