Crossword-Solution: OFFICIO 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Adam Duff, then Sheriff of Forfarshire, now of the county of Edinburgh, and _ex officio_ one of the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses, happened to be at Arbroath.

Also that kind of obedience, which Tacitus speaketh of, is to be held suspected: Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent mandata imperantium interpretari quam exequi; disputing, excusing, cavilling upon mandates and directions, is a kind of shaking off the yoke, and assay of disobedience; especially if in those disputings, they which are for the direction, speak fearfully and tenderly, and those that are against it, audaciously.

John Barrett, the capable and popular director of the Bureau, has well called it "a temple of friendship and commerce and a meeting place for the American Republics." The Bureau is supported by the joint contributions of the twenty-one American Republics, and its affairs are controlled by a governing board composed of their diplomatic representatives in Washington, with the American Secretary of State as chairman ex officio.

When I hint a dislike of nunneries for young girls who abjure the world before they have ever proved or known it; or doubt the _ex officio_ sanctity of all Priests and Friars; I do no more than many conscientious Catholics both abroad and at home.

John Rutledge was chosen president, Henry Laurens vice-president, and _ex-officio_ president of the privy council.