deputy of the attorney genera

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deputy of the attorney genera - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DEPUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. An officer appointed by the attorney 
  general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and 
  whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the 
  attorney general. He must be a member of the bar. In Pennsylvania, by an act 
  of assembly, passed May 3, 1850, district attorneys are elected by the 
  people, who are required to perform the duties which, before that act, were 
  performed by deputies of the attorney general.