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commissaire 92 commission
commissaire du gouvernement, (Fr. mil. law)
field officer or assimile, public prosecutor
before courts-martial; representative of the
government in military cases appealed; (in
gen.) any officer (general or other) charged
with a special mission:
du gouvernement rapporteur, (Fr.mil. law)
public prosecutor of a court-martial,
for an
army in the field, and for a place invested or
besieged;
des guerres, (Fr. a.) commissary and quartermaster
(suppressed at the Restoration);
de la marine, ( Fr. nav.) paymaster, etc.;
militaire de gare, (Fr. a.) officer member of
commission de gare, and acting as c. o.;
de lere classe (2eme classe), (Fr. nav.) pay
director or inspector;
sous , (Fr. nav.) assistant paymaster (2
classes of);
de surveillance administrative, (mil.
r. r.)
functionary in a railroad station -who looks
after soldiers that have missed their way or
lost their transportation;
technique de gare, (mil. r. r.) agent of the
railway, member of the commission de gare,
looks after transport of troops, etc.
commissariat, m., (mil.) commissariat (does
not exist as such in France); the corps of commissaires
de guerre (obs.); ( Fr. nav.) naval pay,
quartermaster, etc., corps.
commission, f., order, charge, duty; warrant,
authority, mandate; commission, board,
committee (e. g., of officers, in many applications);
(Fr. a.) warrant or lettre de service,
given to commissionnes, q. v. (In the following
list will be found the more prominent
boards relating to the French military
service:)
d'abatage, board that determines whether a
horse shall be cast or not;
d'achat. purchasing board (horses, etc.):
d' adjudication, board to settle assignment
of contracts;
administrative des hopitaux mutes, board
to regulate the administration of civil hospitals
used by the military forces of the
nation ;
d'admission, board that passes on the admissibility
of would-be bidders, and on the nature,
etc., of their guaranty or security;
d''aerostation militaire, board, investigates
questions of aerial navigation and reports to
head of engineer committee;
d'armes, promotion board for captains and
majors;
de casernement, board to assign, etc., quarters,
etc., in barracks;
centrale des travaux geograpJiiques, board
that assists the minister of war in the coordination,
etc., of all topographic work done
by the state;
de certificat de bonne conduite, board of officers
to pass on claims of n. c. o. and men to a
certificate of good conduct;
de chemin de fer de campagne, board, in
war, charged with railway transportation
beyond the base of operations; that is, beyond
the station de transition, q. v. (uses military
railroad forces);
de classement pour I'avancement, la Legion
d'honneur et la meaaille militaire, board
to recommend candidates for promotion,
the Legion of Honor and the military
medal;
de classement de chevaux, biennial board
classifying and inspecting all horses and mules
5 years old on January 1 of year in which
census is taken;
de classement et de requisition des chevaux
et voitures, census board for horses and wagons
for military service, in case of war;
de classement des sous-officiers, board drawing
up lists of n. c. o., candidates for civil
employment;
consultative des subsistances, mixed board
assisting the intendance, when called on, in
respect of questions of administration, etc.,
of stores and supplies, in the places where
these are accumulated;
commission consultative de telegraphic militaire,
war department board, investigates
all questions bearing on military telegraphy;
de defense, commission of officers charged
in peace, in each place, with the revision of
plans of mobilization or of defense, in accordance
with ministerial instructions;
de defense du littoral, board for the consideration
of all questions relating to seacoast
defense;
-d'enquete, board of survey, board of inquiry
(for cases of officers only ) ;
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d'etudes, committee to investigate all
questions bearing on transports strategiques,
under the direction of the commission
superieure;
d'etudes
pratiques du tir, artillery committee
having charge of all questions relating
to improvements in artillery practice;
devaluation des indemnites, board to settle
amounts due for supplies furnished on
mobilization of troops, of the army, or on
assembling of troops for any purpose;
d'examen, examining board (schools);
d'examen de denrees refugees en distribution,
board called to settle differences between
contractors or issuing officers (service
des subsistances), on the one hand, and receiving
parties, on the other, in case of refusal
to accept stores issued or furnished :
d'examen des inventions interessant les
armees de terre et de mer, a war department
board investigating all inventions, of interest
to army and to navy, submitted by their
authors (board of ordnance and fortification,
U.S.A.)',
d' experiences de I'artillerie, gun board, experimental
artillery board;
de gare, board charged in war with transport
of stores, troops, issues of stores, care
of sick and wounded, in the railway stations
assigned to it (has varying designations according
to duties);
d'hygiene Jiippique, war department board
reporting on all hippological questions referred
to it by the minister;
de ligne, name taken by the d'etudes,
q. v., as soon as the transport strategique
begins;
locale de reception, board of artillery officers
for the inspection and test of small-arm
cartridges ;
militaire superieure des chemins de fer, commission
of officers and of civilians, under
the presidency of the chief of staff of the
minister of war, having charge of all general
of railway service and organiza-
Suestions on, such as transport of troops, organization
of new lines, etc. ;
mixte des travaux publics, board of officers
and civilians for the examination and discussion
of such projects, relating to the frontier
and to the territory around fortified positions,
as may concern the national defense
and civil and marine interests;
des ordinaires, mess (men's) council or
board;
des prises, (nav.) prize commission;
de reception des 'cartouches, board of officers
of all arms, one at each cartridge factory,
which inspects and tests small-arm ammunition
as it is manufactured ;
de reception des matures, board of officers
and of one expert to inspect and examine,
etc., stores received by the government;
de reforme, retiring board ;
de remonte, remount board or council;
de requisition, board that, on mobilization,
examines and classifies horses, mules,
etc., of which a census has been made or
that satisfy certain conditions, looks after
the supply of wagons for transportation, etc.;
de reseau, board that, in peace, has charge
of all questions bearing on the railway service
of a given system of lines, in a military point
of view, the railway personnel being employed;
on mobilization this board is assisted by a
sous de reseau;