devolving on

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V. The President and Secretary-Treasurer shall perform the duties usually devolving on such officers.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various

The first unpleasant duty devolving on me is described in the following order: Headquarters, Fort McHenry, Nov.

From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Smith, Henry Bascom

Sumpu also had a jodai, who discharged duties similar to those devolving on his Osaka namesake.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

There he was left much alone; and after fulfilling the routine duties devolving on him, he found leisure for his own favourite pursuits.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

The fame of Daniel Boone which had reached them, recommended him, as one eminently qualified to discharge the duties devolving on an agent; and he was employed in that capacity.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold