they delegated
Past they conjugation of delegate.

delegate

To the Ministry of the Interior they delegated the deputy Karaulov, insignificant but rather less cowardly than the others, and he issued on March 1 an order for the arrest of all police officials, public, secret and political.
Au ministère de l'Intérieur fut envoyé un député insignifiant, mais peut-être moins poltron que les autres, Karaoulov, qui promulga, le 1er mars, un décret d'arrestation de tous les fonctionnaires de la police publique ou secrète et du corps des gendarmes.
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