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iting, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

cluding court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated.

In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.

A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc. [Burmah]

the governor. Theoretically the zemstvo has large powers relating to taxation, education, public health, etc., but practically these powers are in most cases limited to the adjustment of the state taxation.