[036-192v]

1821 May 19

Codification Offer

'.5. Draughtsman single

(a) In English usage, where the word Board or the word Commission are employed, it is generally understood that the person by whom the Members are nominated is the Monarch: where the situation in question is regarded as permanent, Board; where occasional and transient, Commission, is the word commonly employed. Committee is the word originally appropriated to Members nominated by one or other of the two Aristocratical branches of the Government: from there it has come to signify the select members of any number of individuals whatsoever nominated by the rest for any particular purpose. The word Junta or Junto though often used in English is seldom meant in any other than a dyslogistic sense (a sense betokening disapprobation). In Spanish (in which it appears to have originated) in Spanish as well as in other languages it is employed in a neutral sense: neither the idea of reprobation nor that of approbation being associated with it.