"Section C"
--
Commission of the peace,
a
commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons
justices of the peace. [Eng.] --
To put a vessel
into commission (Naut.),
to equip and man a
government vessel, and send it out on service after it has been
laid up; esp., the formal act of taking command of a vessel for
service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders, etc. --
To put a vessel out of commission(Naut.),
to detach the officers and crew and retire it
from active service, temporarily or permanently. --
To put the great seal, or the
Treasury,
into commission,
to
place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during
the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going
out of one lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.]
--
The United States Christian Commission,
an organization among the people of the North, during the
Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union
soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the
field and in hospitals. --
The United States
Sanitary Commission,
an organization formed by the
people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the
medical department of the Union armies during the Civil
War.
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