DELEGAT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DELEGATE. A person elected by the people of a territory of the United 
  States, to congress, who has a seat in congress, and a right of debating, 
  but not of voting. Ordinance of July, 13, 1787, 3 Story's L. U. S. 2076. 
       2. The delegates from the territories of the United States are entitled 
  to send and receive letters, free of postage, on the same terms and 
  conditions as members of the senate and house of representatives of the 


  United States; and also to the same compensation as is allowed to members of 
  the senate and house of representatives. Act of February 18, 1802, 2 Story, 
  L. U. S. 828. 
       3. A delegate is also a person elected to some deliberative assembly, 
  usually one for the nomination of officers. 
       4. In contracts, a delegate is one who is authorized by another in the 
  name of the latter; an attorney.