commission
noun
the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am commissioning myself to go, on my own account.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Constance Garnett