Commissary
an ecclesiastical term, an officer of a bishop who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in remote parts of a diocese, or one intrusted with the performance of the duties in the bishop's absence. Also, in the army, a term applied to officers charged with furnishing provisions, etc., for its use.
In the United States the army commissary up to 1912 was under Department of Subsistence, but in that year was joined to the Quartermaster Corps.
It now falls partly in the Army Service Corps, in which body alone there are commissary officers. -COMMISSION PLAN. See MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.