OFF 
The flate of the roads and one aha 
—- cultivation and live 
Likewife the repairs, more immediately wanted. 
The improvements of which it is c 
Together with fhort notices or abftra 
The agreements entered into least the tenant. 
ides seas granted him 
unétions delivered to hin, With any other inci- 
dent or occurrence refpecting the farm or 
bered: and with references to the books 
in practice. On returning to aneftate, after twelve 
aon abfence, he has generally found, that, by conluiting 
a regifter of this fort, and, through its means, making 
tematic enquiries, refpeCting the incidents that have oceurred 
on the feveral farms, during his abfence, he has i in this fum- 
prevements going on: each of which ought to have its fepa- 
rate folio afligned it. It is ftated that to a proprietor, or his 
confidential, who only 
an intelligent companion i is eflentially ferviceable. 
not profitably dire&t, nor a fely advife with, an acting 
once of the eftate, until he 
And the’ utility of 
uch a act er, while a proprietor is abfent from his eftate, 
if he can be faid to he fo, with fuch a faithful mirror in his 
poffeffion, is too obvious to require explanation 
It is alfo recommended, that ge thofe — docu- 
ments and regifters, the office rooms of an eftate fhould be 
furnifhed with the mechanic udeonens that are ufeful in 
its improvement and management: asearth borers, to fearch 
for ufeful foffils, &c. &c.; levelling inftruments, a laying 
out roads and water-courfes, &c. &c. models 
and drawings of oT mills, floodgates, farmfteads, build. 
ings, implements, &ec. sora 
It is concluded ther ofing 
e men who are lo 
who will confider this executive ¢ ablifh 
efs, as unneceflary an 
a {tates are very large, there 
no doubt thefe pr peemaain and regulations ‘mutt facilitate 
the management of them in a very confiderable degree, and 
of courfe be ai effential advantage to thofe who are the pro- 
ca of the 
OF ICER, a ‘a perfon ales of a poft or office 
Great Oricers of the , or State, are the lord high- 
fteward, the lord ele te lord high-treafurer, the 
lord prefident of the council, the lord privy-feal, the lord 
great chamberlain, the lord high conftable, the earl marfhal, 
and lord hi gh admirait. See CHANCELLOR, TREASURER, 
FICE of Jalen, are thofe who are entrufted with the 
ace e equity and juftice in the courts thereof. 
OFF 
Orricers, Royal, are thofe who oS juftice in the. 
king’s. name ; as the judges, &c. See Jup 
OFFICERS, nie are thofe who sacuttes jullice in 
the name of fubj Such are thofe who a& under the ear] 
marfhal, admir: bi 
Orricers of Police, are thofe in whom the government and 
dire€tion of the affairs of a community are invefted. Such 
are sii hae fheriffs, &c. 
OFFICERS of War, are thofe who have command in the 
forces. 
Thefe are either Sake ae or fubaltern officers. 
Orricers, Genera e GEN pegs cers. 
Orricers, Field, are fach as have command over a whole 
aa 3 fuch as the colonel, Tenaiaeeland, and 
. 
a ysl See SuBALT 
enolase! Commi iffon, are fuch as are panel by the 
king’s com 
Such are "all a the general to the cornet and enfign, ine 
OQ 
— 
i] 
ive 
he ey ar re thus called in contradiftinGtior to non-commsffioned 
officers, as ferjeant-majors, quarter egenmen cre ferjeants, 
orporals, drum and fife-major s who ted by thei 
re{pective captains, and appointed by ie jmadne 
officers of regiments, and by cea reduced without a court 
tl 
ie) 
, Staff, are the. quarter-mafter-general, and the 
adjutant. genera who are ftriétly {aid to eal only in time of 
war; alfo, t ee mane adjutants, furgeons, and 
chaplains of regiments. 
OFFICERS, Vie. are thofe who have no commiffions, 
but only warrants from fuch a or perfons as are autho- 
rized by the king to grant the 
Orricrrs, Sea, or officers of the marine, are thofe who 
have command in uae : 
Orricers, Flag. See Fia 
pf ter of the Hoyfld - > the lord fteward, treafurer 
of the houfhold, comptroller, cofferer, mafter, clerks of 
the — cloth, &c. the lord ehanbenlain, vice-chamberlain, 
gentlemen of the privy and bed-chamber, gentlemen ufhers, 
— pages, mafter of the wardrobe, ei the canes 
the mafter of the herfe, avenor, equerries, furveyor rs, 
c. = Hovusnorp. See alfo each officer in his proper 
nee 
Ones staf are fuch asin the king’s aia bear 
a white ftaff ; t other times, going a » have a 
white ftaff Ue before them by a footman ia headed. 
Such are the lord fteward, lord chamberlain, lord treafurer, 
The white flaff is taken for a ee 3 and at the death 
eir ftaff over tne hearfe made 
for the king’s body, and thereby difcharge their inferior 
officers. 
Orricers, Municipal. 
Orricers, Reformed. 
Orricers of the Mint. 
Orricers, Signals for. See SIGNAL 
OFFICIAL, Ofrrécraris, in Canon Law, the rt & 
deputy or liestenant ; or an ecclefiaflical judge appointed by 
a bifhop, laa abboi, &c, with charge of the fpiritual 
jurifdiction therco 
thefe there a are two kinds : the one, as it were, vicar- 
general, of the ae exercifing jur rifdiion throughout 
the whole diocefe, called by the can officials principalis, 
in our ftatute law the bifhop’ s chancellor. 
There is no appeal from pas court to the bifhop ; his be- 
ing efteemed the bithop’s cow 
x x2 The 
See MunicipaL. 
