Bland was also listed as a member of the Local Committee in Penang of the Straits Settlements Commission at Singapore appointed by the Colonial Governments for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, which opened in May that year.
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Delissa A . Ridgway, chairwoman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, said in an interview this week that the Clinton administration was scouring archives as well as using the Internet to notify anyone who might be eligible.
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The agency is staffed by IRS officers who start their careers as Assistant Commissioners in the field and within 20 25 years rise to the post of Chief Commissioners, with a few senior most officers who become Members of CBEC / CESTAT / Settlement Commission.
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"It is truly a race against time, but it's international negotiations, " said Delissa Ridgway, chairwoman of the Justice Department's Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, which oversees U . S . citizens'claims against other governments.
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She served in his administration as Chair of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission and was sometimes referred to as the second most powerful woman in Washington during her service, presumably after United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby of Texas.
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From 26 April 1886 until 1 January 1901, the Settlement Commission purchased 147, 475 ha ( 3.64 % of the Province of Posen and 1.65 % of West Prussia ), and settled 4, 277 families ( about 30, 000 persons ).
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In areas where Polish population lived along with Germans a virtual apartheid existed, with bans on Polish language and religious discrimination, besides attempts to colonize the areas with Germans Prussian Settlement Commission introduced 154, 000 German colonists before World War I, which were also located in Pomerania.
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For the Settlement Commission, these countermeasures led to a decreasing availability of purchasable Polish-owned land, in 1895 and all years following 1898, the vast majority of estates was purchased from Germans instead of Poles, and since 1902, the commission was able to acquire land from Poles " only rarely and only through a middleman ".
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The Office of the Associate Attorney General oversees the Tax Division, the Office of Justice Programs, the Community Oriented Policing Services, the Community Relations Service, the Office of Dispute Resolution, the Office of Violence Against Women, the Office of Information and Privacy, the Executive Office for United States Trustees, and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
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The president of the Settlement Commission, Gense, was one of the chief supporters and planners of the so-called " Polish Border Strip " that envisioned expelling circa 2 million non-Germans ( chiefly Poles and Jews ) from 30, 000 square kilometers of the would-be annexed territories from Congress Poland, which would then become Germanised.
