Scrip, a form of money meaningless outside the school, was created at a fixed exchange rate from a student's tuition.

The castle-like building he worked in was even woven into some of his tales such as " Bexar Scrip No. 2692 " ( 1894 ).

Scrip in this context was valid only within that area or town where it was issued.

When U. S. President Andrew Jackson issued his Specie Circular of 1836 due to credit shortages, Virginia Scrip was accepted as payments for federal lands.

Scrip as a de facto form of currency within the setting of the mining or logging industry was discontinued around 1952.

Most of the mobility system was inherited from Vaughan Transit and Markham Transit ( Mobility Bus and Taxi Scrip ), whom operated similar systems since the 1980s.

* Scrip issue

The American Colonies used the " Colonial Scrip " system prior to the Revolution, much to the praise of Benjamin Franklin.

Because of inadequate funding for the project, the State of Illinois began issuing " Land Scrip " to the workers rather than paying them with money.

Scrip issued by the Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op, worth ½ hour of babysitting time.

Scrip is a term for any substitute for currency which is not legal tender and is often a form of credit.

Scrip behaves similarly to a currency, and as such can be used to study monetary economics, as in the Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op.

Scrip is also related to the stock market where companies pay dividends in the form of scrip rather than paying actual currency.

Scrip survives in modern times in various forms.

Scrip is now issued in the form of gift certificates ( alternatively gift vouchers ), or gift cards.

Great Lakes Scrip Center, the US's largest broker of scrip gift cards, reported that more than 4 million US households and 15, 000 non-profit organizations use scrip fundraising.

* Stamp Scrip: Money People Paid to Use Bruce Champ 04. 01. 2008

The last years of his life were marred by charges of corruption in the Canal Scrip Fraud case.

* The Spirit of Detroit is the main image on Detroit Community Scrip.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

In 1947, affidavits were filed with the Commission by various clear-channel stations alleging that extensive interference was being caused to the service areas of these stations during daylight hours, from class 2, stations whose signals were being reflected from the ionosphere so as to create skywave intereference.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

The Texas Historical Commission has erected a historical marker near the entrance of what was once his plantation.

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) was charged with interpreting the 1990 law with regard to discrimination in employment.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

He was also the third Japanese chairman of the Trilateral Commission.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 out of the main British colonies in the region, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland ( now Lesotho ), and Swaziland ( the " High Commission Territories ") were not included, but provision was made for

On July 28, 1999 Bal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1999 till December 10, 2005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

* 2007: On September 16, 2007, hunter Rick Jacobs captured an image of a supposed Sasquatch by using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree, prompting a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to say that it was likely an image of " a bear with a severe case of mange.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

The Commission ruled that the licence fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC and that it did not exceed actual costs.

This was done in the Soviet Union, in secret, to evade the Treaty of Versailles's occupational agent, the Inter-Allied Commission.

Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.