* 1841 – U. S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States.

* 1792 – U. S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

* 1941 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

* 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.

In 1821, a parliamentary bill was passed to allow the building of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( S & DR ).

As to the preferring of a bill of indictment and the signing of an indictment, see section 2 of the Administration of Justice ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1933 and the Indictments ( Procedure ) Rules 1971 ( S. I.

* 1974 – President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U. S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

* 1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U. S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

* 1832 – U. S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

* 1916 – U. S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.

Minor Threat's first performance was in December 1980, opening on a bill with Bad Brains, Phfat Raskals, and S. O. A.

* 1988 – War on Drugs: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

* 1983 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

In a 1996 report on a Puerto Rico status political bill, the " U. S. House Committee on Resources stated that PR's current status does not meet the criteria for any of the options for full self-government ".

The Federal Party ( FP ) launched a movement of non-violent resistance ( satyagraha ) against the bill, which prompted Bandaranaike to reach an agreement ( Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact ) with S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, leader of the FP, to resolve the looming ethnic conflict.

The bill is immediately used to replicate Japan's non-tariff barriers, cutting off the U. S. export markets upon which the Japanese economy depends.

Although the bill aimed generally to overhaul and modernize all of the federal court system, its central and most controversial provision would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U. S. Supreme Court for every sitting member over the age of 70½, up to a maximum of six.

In July 2005, the U. S. Senate passed a reauthorization bill with substantial changes to several sections of the act, while the House reauthorization bill kept most of the act's original language.

* June 15 – U. S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.

** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.

** The U. S. Congress passes a bill for the creation of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

* February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.

** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an immigration bill which abolishes quotas based on national origin.

A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

Democrat Stanley H. Dent, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, declined to introduce the bill.

The House communications subcommittee is expected to report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds.

Other communities -- the ones to be aided most by the Senate bill -- have had difficulty starting such stations because of the high initial cost of equipment.

The British government, concerned about the threat of unemployment in the shipbuilding industry, had put through a bill to give Cunard loans and grants totaling $50,400,000 toward the $84,000,000 cost of a new 75,000-ton passenger liner.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

When we separated that evening Pat pushed a hundred dollar bill into Eileen's hand to help towards a layette.

The doctor paid the bill and they repaired to the hotel, room number nine, to initiate Alex further into these undertakings.

If you file Form 1040A and the District Director computes your tax, you will be sent a bill if additional tax is due.

This bill should be paid within 30 days.

They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.

Otherwise, you may be saddled with a good-size milk bill by milk drinkers.

Because they prepare their own meals they also keep in their pockets a good portion of that $10.50 food bill along with most of the tip money.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

per kilowatt-hour, and a $2 charge for a maximum demand of 2 kilowatts during the month at the rate of $1 per kilowatt -- a total bill of $8 for that month.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

In the final accounting, these would have augmented the bill for both sides.

The bartender brought Rourke's drink and Shayne laid a twenty-dollar bill on the bar.

The bartender winked back at him and palmed the bill.

The bill, which Daniel said he drafted personally, would force banks, insurance firms, pipeline companies and other corporations to report such property to the state treasurer.

Rep. Charles E. Hughes of Sherman, sponsor of the bill, said a failure to enact it would amount `` to making a gift out of the taxpayers' pockets to banks, insurance and pipeline companies ''.

Cox argued that the bill is `` probably unconstitutional '' since, he said, it would impair contracts.