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The bill allowed for fines for anyone who imported or traded in unlicensed or foreign books, required every book that would be given copyright protection to be entered into the Stationers ' Register, provided a legal deposit system centred around the King's Library, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but said nothing about limiting the term of copyright.
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The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.
" On June 15, 1836, Jackson signed a bill that allowed Michigan to become a state, but only after it ceded the Toledo Strip.
Hill and his men worked in spite of all obstacles — including a presidential veto of a bill that would have allowed Hill legally to build through American Indian territory ( the law preventing Hill from laying track across Indian territories was later repealed under President Grover Cleveland, who like Hill was a Bourbon Democrat ).
Initially, Medicare compensated physicians based on the physician's charges, and allowed physicians to bill Medicare beneficiaries the amount in excess of Medicare's reimbursement.
Article 1, Section 7 of the Confederate States Constitution, adopted March 11, 1861, allowed the president of the Confederacy the ability to " approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill ," with such disapprovals returned to the houses of congress for reconsideration and potentially for override.
The bill allowed the President to " rewrit legislation by vetoing single items of spending or specific tax breaks approved by Congress.
This act allowed the President to veto individual items of budgeted expenditures from appropriations bills instead of vetoing the entire bill and sending it back to the Congress.
The bill passed by the legislature included phrasing, which was deliberately included by the Bay City lawyer Chester H. Freeman, that allowed Bay County to claim ratification.
A precedent for using federal land grants had been established when Millard Fillmore signed a bill promoted by Douglas that allowed a Mobile to Chicago railroad to be financed by " federal land grants for the specific purpose of railroad construction ".
The bill allowed a pharmacist to sell contraceptives on presentation of a medical prescription.
In late 2005, NTRC was largely responsible for the rejection of a government bill that would have allowed the use of robust nuclear earth penetrator ( RNEP ) bombs, commonly known as " bunker busters ".
This bill allowed for funding to be raised by the sale of two thousand eight hundred shares of £ 50 each, a total of £ 140, 000, of which the proprietors, the Earl of Eglinton, Lord Montgomerie and Lady Jane Montgomerie subscribed £ 30, 000.
This bill allowed for the financing and construction of a railway from the Johnstone canal basin to Ardrossan.
In an attempt at compromise, the British government put forward an amending bill, which would have allowed for Ulster to be temporarily excluded from the working of the Act ; this failed to satisfy either side, and the stalemate continued until overtaken by the outbreak of World War I.
MPs are allowed to give such speeches each time a vote takes place, and many votes were needed before the bill could be passed.
This led to the creation and passing of a new bill known as Tydings-McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, which allowed the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines with a ten year period of peaceful transition to full independence-the date of which was to be on the 4th July following the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Commonwealth.
After approaches to the government to reconsider the acquisition bill failed, Casley and his associates resorted to International Law, which they felt allowed them to secede and declare their independence from the Commonwealth of Australia.
In 2000, Canada Post created a company called Epost, allowed customers to receive their bill online for free ( in 2007, Epost was absorbed into Canada Post ).
To prevent the humiliation of the success of the petition, Chairman Smith allowed the bill to pass through the Rules Committee.
Upon being reported out of Committee or if a bill has been removed from Committee by the House a bill will be added to the House Calendar and any rules setting out how much time is allowed for debate, or other matters may be passed by the House in the form of a resolution.
The level of reduction can mean that the bill is reduced in some instances substantially, but in most cases at least 80 % of the costs originally sought will be allowed.
The bill provided for United States Treasury Department inspection of all banks before they would be allowed to reopen, for federal assistance to tottering large institutions, and for a thorough reorganization of those in greatest difficulty.
However, this was deemed insufficient to do so ; a bill was passed in Parliament in 1678 which allowed him to inherit the original Barony despite the attainder.
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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.
The House communications subcommittee is expected to report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds.
For example, the monthly bill of a residential consumer might be the sum of a $1 customer charge, a $5 charge for 250 kilowatt-hours of energy at
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.
`` Sometimes we'd have trouble persuading her to make tax-exempt charitable contributions, and I've known her to quarrel with a plumber over a bill for fixing a faucet ; ;
-- Senators unanimously approved Thursday the bill of Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas authorizing establishment of day schools for the deaf in Dallas and the four other largest counties.
The bill is designed to provide special schooling for more deaf students in the scholastic age at a reduced cost to the state.
Without dissent, senators passed a bill by Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston authorizing establishment in the future of a school for the mentally retarded in the Gulf Coast district.
Natural gas public utility companies would be given the right of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen. Frank Owen 3, of El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas.
Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water program by local bonds, and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill, did not sway Cotten's attack.
The tax bill will be up for reconsideration Wednesday in the House when the Legislature reconvenes.
His testimony came during a hearing on a bill raising fees for a wide variety of licenses, permits and city services.
In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes ; ;
`` My approval of this bill should not be viewed as establishing a precedent for the enactment of similar legislation for other mineral industries '', the President said.
In addition, disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in excess of what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill.
His bill, allegedly aimed at Hoffa, would amend the Sherman, Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia acts to authorize the issuance of federal injunctions in any transportation strike and would make it illegal for any union to act in concert with any other union -- even a sister local in the same international.
If they have trouble exporting, international bill for their support will grow larger than it otherwise would.
Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.
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