Warrant Officer
one of the highest ranks to which seamen under ordinary circumstances can attain. They are divided into three classes-gunners, taking precedence of the other two. For- boatswains, and carpenters, the gunners taking precedence of the other two. Formerly, before ironclads superseded wooden ships, there was only one officer of this rank of each class carried on board even the largest ships. Now, in addition to the officer of each class appointed to carry out the special duties of addition to the officer of each class apgunner, boatswain, and carpenter on board every ship, there are usually three gunner, boatswain, and carpenter on or four junior gunners or boatswains appointed to battleships and some of the larger of other classes of ships to perform what are called quarter-deck duties, in addition to which in many of the larger ships an extra gunner or boatin addition to which in many of the A certain proportion of these officers who have duly qualified in navigation are now appointed to command torpedo boats. covenant by deed, made by the bargainer, for himself and his heirs to warrant or secure the bargainee and his heirs against all men in the enjoyment of an estate or other thing granted. The use of warranties in conveyances has long been superseded by covenants for title, whereby, as the covenanter engages for his executors and administrators, his per- 14,272. a United States Senator from Wyoming. and received an academic education. He Hospital for the Insane, and two public served in the Civil War, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for gal- He was born in Hinsdale, Mass., in 1844, lantry. Following the war, he engaged in farming and stock raising in Massachusetts, until 1868, when he removed to Wyoming. He filled various offices in the Territorial Government, and was mayor of Cheyenne until 1885, when he resigned to be territorial governor. For three terms he was treasurer of Wyom- Following his election as United States ing Territory. In 1890 he was elected He was five times re-elected Senator. first governor of the State of Wyoming.
Senator in the same year, he resigned.
BLE, an American military officer; born in Cold Spring, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1830; was graduated at the United States Military