provost marshal generaln.

1632 W. Watts Swedish Discipline ii. 48 No man shall hinder the Provost Marshall Generall, his Lieftenant or seruants, when they are to execute any thing that is for our seruice.

1682 G. Vernon Life P. Heylyn 33 Thomas Heygate of Heys Esq one of his Majesties Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex..in his younger days, whilst his elder Brother was alive, had been Provost-Marshal-General of the Army under the Earl of Essex at the Action of Cales.

1716 Laws Jamaica 333 The Provost-Marshal General of this Island, or his Deputy, is hereby authorized and required to make Proclamation of the same, in the Supream Court of Judicature.

1789 J. Lodge Peerage of Ireland V. 161 The King wrote..that he then surrendered all his right, title, and interest, of and in the office of Provost Marshal General of the province of Munster.

1823 Times 29 Sept. 3/3 The whole of the petitioning slaves were withdrawn from the control of their owners, and placed under the protection of the Provost Marshal General.

1880 Atlantic Monthly May 623 Daylight brought the provost-marshal general to the tent to dispose of the prisoners.

1940 G. S. Bryan Great Amer. Myth ix.192 The correspondence..was turned over to the office of Col. Prentiss Ingraham, provost marshal-general of the defenses north of the Potomac.

2003 Armed Forces Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 May 55 A pending realignment of responsibilities within the Army would reinstate the position, ‘dual-hatting’ the provost marshal general as director of the Criminal Investigation Command.