An Act of Parliament was passed in 1600 which allowed Adventurers, who paid for drainage schemes with their own money, to be repaid in land which they had drained.

The most potent Parliamentarian force was the New Model Army, which proceeded to conquer Ireland over the next four years and to enforce the Adventurers Act by conquering and selling Irish land to pay off its financial backers.

* Secondly, the Long Parliament and the Irish administration, and King Charles, made it clear that Irish Catholics who did not demonstrate their loyalty would be held responsible for the rebellion and killings of settlers, and would confiscate their lands under the Adventurers Act, agreed on 19 March 1642.

* Parliament had raised loans of £ 10 million under the Adventurers Act to subdue Ireland since 1640, on the basis that its creditors would be repaid with land confiscated from Irish Catholic rebels.

Also he needed to raise money to pay off his army and to repay the London merchants who had subsidized the war under the Adventurers Act back in 1640.

After the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland ( 1649-53 ) it was confiscated in accord with the Adventurers ' Act and its new owner was Arthur Smith.

* Entrepreneurs, Merchant Adventurers-this refers to the Adventurers Act passed by the English Parliament in 1642, which decreed that that loans given to the Parliamentarians during the Civil Wars could be recouped by the creditors receiving land confiscated from those Irish Catholics who rebelled or remained neutral in the 1640s.

Also money to pay for the wars had been raised under the 1642 Adventurers Act, which paid creditors with land forfeited by the 1641 rebels.

The Adventurers were financiers who had loaned the Parliament £ 10 million in 1642, specifically to reverse the 1641 rebellion, and the Act was signed into law by Charles I just before the start of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ( see Adventurers Act ).

The Long Parliament had been committed to mass confiscation of land in Ireland since 1642, when it passed the Adventurers Act, which raised loans secured on the Irish rebels ' lands that were to be confiscated.

Set in 1919 London and various other outlying locales throughout Britain, couple Tommy Beresford and Prudence " Tuppence " Cowley, out of work and money, form the " The Young Adventurers, Ltd ." planning to hiring themselves out as " adventurers … illing to do anything, go anywhere … o unreasonable offer refused.

In mid-1642 Charles signed the Adventurers Acts into law, whereby loans raised in London would eventually be paid off by the sale of Irish rebels ' lands.

Motion, Soundstage Club and Adventurers Club were available for rental through the end of March 2010.

Hedge funds raise capital via private placement under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, which means the shares are not registered.

The Militia Act of 1797 empowered Scottish Lord Lieutenants to raise and command militia regiments in each of the " Counties, Stewartries, Cities, and Places " under their jurisdiction.

Reagan followed his 1981 tax cuts with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which sought to eliminate deductions, lower marginal rates for the wealthy, and significantly raise taxes on those earning less than $ 50, 000 In 1982 Reagan agreed to a rollback of corporate tax cuts and a smaller rollback of individual income tax cuts.

With the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Reagan and Congress sought to raise taxes on lower incomes, eliminate many deductions, and reduce tax rates on the wealthy.

To raise revenue to fund the Civil War, Congress introduced the income tax through the Revenue Act of 1861.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 continues to raise awareness and enforce action on disability issues in the urban environment.

The Salary Grab Act not only provided for a Congressional pay raise, but made that raise retroactive.

From 1833 to its demolition in the mid 1980s, the Salisbury Gas Light & Coke Company, who ran the city's gasworks were one of the major employers in the area. The company was formed in 1832 with a share capital of £ 8, 000, and its first chairman was The 3rd Earl of Radnor The company was incorporated by a private Act of Parliament in 1864, and the Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1882 empowered the company to raise capital of up to £ 40, 000.

The National Industrial Recovery Act ( NIRA ) was a short-lived program in 1933 – 35 designed to strengthen trade associations, and raise prices, profits and wages at the same time.

The scheme originated in 1818, but was opposed by the merchants of Yarmouth, and it was not until 28 May 1827 that an Act of Parliament authorised the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Company, giving then powers to raise £ 100, 000, with an additional £ 50, 000 if required.

On February 27, 2008, Greenfield Elementary was placed under " Intensive " help due to the school's failure to raise their Standardized Testing and Reporting ( STAR ) Results under the No Child Left Behind Act for the past five years by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O ' Connell.

The Act created the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation, and gave them powers to raise £ 414, 100 by the issuing of shares, and an additional £ 200, 000, either by mortgage or by issuing more shares, if required.

The new Act of Parliament created the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Company, and authorised them to raise £ 100, 000, with an additional £ 50, 000 if required.

The magazine accused the editor Geraldine Kennedy and the Irish Times board of violating the Defense Act which prohibits any kind of advertising for recruitment for a foreign army and article 15. 6. 1 of the Constitution of Ireland which states “ The right to raise and maintain military or armed forces is vested exclusively in the Oireachtas

In 1867, the River Welland Outfall Act enabled the trustees to raise money to repair the walls where the tide had washed away some of the fill behind the fascines.

The original Commissioners appointed under the Act obtained in 1700 had failed to appoint any more Commissioners, and so new Commissioners were authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1817, with powers to raise the tolls to pay for the maintenance of the navigation.

The purchase was authorised by the Kennet Navigation Act of June 1813, which enabled the company to raise the funds through the sale of 5, 500 shares at £ 24 each.

Another Act of Parliament was passed in 1801 which allowed the company to raise a further £ 200, 000 to complete the canal.

Following completion, a further two Acts were passed in 1810 and 1813 to alter toll rates on the canal, and another Act was passed in 1815 to allow the company to raise £ 100, 000 to pay off debts collected during the construction of the canal, and to construct a reservoir.

Negotiations with a number of interested parties took place, and having given an assurance that it would not be converted into a railway to the Great Western Railway, an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1895, which formed a Trust with powers to raise £ 15, 000.

The use of the term " elastic currency " in the Federal Reserve Act does not imply only the ability to expand the money supply, but also the ability to contract the money supply.

This act also forbade without Parliament's consent, Ship money, fines in destraint of knighthood and forced loans were declared unlawful, monopolies were cut back severely, and the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission were abolished by the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 and the Triennial Act 1641.

To prevent these Illegal uses of money, the Bangladesh government has introduced the Money Laundering Prevention Act.

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 contains the primary UK anti-money laundering legislation, including provisions requiring businesses within the ' regulated sector ' ( banking, investment, money transmission, certain professions, etc.

One consequence of the Act is that solicitors, accountants, tax advisers and insolvency practitioners who suspect ( as a consequence of information received in the course of their work ) that their clients ( or others ) have engaged in tax evasion or other criminal conduct from which a benefit has been obtained, are now required to report their suspicions to the authorities ( since these entail suspicions of money laundering ).

In an attempt to prevent dirty money from entering the US financial system in the first place, the United States Congress passed a series of laws, starting in 1970, collectively known as the Bank Secrecy Act.

Freedom of Information Act inquiries by the National Security Archive and other investigators unearthed a number of documents showing that White House officials, including Oliver North, knew about and supported using money raised via drug trafficking to fund the Contras.

Property-defined at s. 71 ( 1 ) of the Crimes Act 1958 as being both tangible property, including money and intangible property.

After the Panic of 1873, Congress debated an inflationary policy to stimulate the economy and passed the Legal Tender Act ( known as the " Inflation Bill ") on April 14, 1874 to increase the nation's tight money supply.

The Lyons government stepped in and paid the debts and then passed the Financial Agreement Enforcement Act to recover the money it had paid.

Chapman had his wartime memoirs serialised in France to earn money, but he was charged under the Official Secrets Act and fined ₤ 50.

These specific election donations are known as ‘ hard money .’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ) of 2002, also known as " McCain-Feingold ", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1974, and prohibited unregulated contributions ( commonly referred to as " soft money ") to national political parties.

When eventually Harrison was paid the money owing to him, it was by a special Act of Parliament rather than the Board of Longitude.

While a court did affirm that various Nigerian government officials ( including a governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria ) were directly or indirectly involved and that Nigerian government officials could be sued in U. S. courts under the " commercial activity " exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, he was unable to get his money back due to the doctrine of unclean hands because he had knowingly entered into a contract that was illegal.

The Commons passed resolutions ( 14 April ) that would form the basis for the Parliament Act: to remove the power of the Lords to veto money bills, to reduce their veto of other bills to a power to delay for up to two years ( the Bill would become law if passed a third time by the Commons ), and also to reduce the term of Parliament from seven years to five ( the King would have preferred four years ).

The Education Act 1918 raised the school leaving age to 14, increased the powers and duties of the Board of Education ( together with the money it could provide to Local Education Authorities ), and introduced a system of day-continuation schools which youths between the ages of 14 and 16 " could be compelled to attend for at least one day a week.

The proposed bill called for $ 20, 000 reparations payments to each former incarceree or their immediate relatives, along with money for a civil liberties education fund ( see Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ).

Although the Royal Navy suffered from many morale issues, it answered the question of prize money via the ' Cruizers and Convoys ' Act of 1708 which handed over the share previously gained by the Crown to the captors of the ship.

The First Wilson Government made assistance to deprived urban communities a specific policy of national government in 1969 with the passage of the Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act, which empowered the Home Secretary to dispense grants to assist local authorities in providing extra help to areas “ of special social need .” The Urban Aid Programme was subsequently launched to provide community and family advice centres, centres for the elderly, money for schools and other services, thereby alleviating urban deprivation.

Johnson's second major education program was the Higher Education Act of 1965, which focused on funding for lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans.

His conviction for robbery was quashed on the basis that Robinson had an honest, although unreasonable, belief ( under Section 2 ( 1 )( a ) of the Act ) in his legal right to the money.