Last month in Ghana an American missionary discovered when he came to pay his hotel bill that the usual rate had been doubled.

His testimony came during a hearing on a bill raising fees for a wide variety of licenses, permits and city services.

When she had drained the last of the bottle and paid her bill, she came directly to my table and said:

Historically, in Canada, whisky that had some rye grain added to the mash bill to give it more flavour came to be called “ rye ”.

Though no state conditioned ratification of the constitution on a bill of rights, several states came close, and the issue almost prevented the constitution from being ratified.

The final break came as Bismarck searched for a new parliamentary majority, with his Kartell voted from power due to the anti-socialist bill fiasco.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

The one successful bill from the lobbying in the 1730s, which came into force on 29 September 1739, extended the provision prohibiting the import of foreign books to also prohibit the import of books that, while originally published in Britain, were being reprinted in foreign nations and then shipped to England and Wales.

This came about when President Eisenhower enacted a bill called the National Defense Education Act.

His efforts came to fruition when the House passed the bill on January 31, 1865, by a vote of 119 to 56.

While President John F. Kennedy gets credit for creating the Peace Corps, the first initiative came from Humphrey when he introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957 — three years prior to JFK and his University of Michigan speech.

The request came with no public warning after Polk had failed to arrange for approval of the bill with no Congressional debate.

bill, came to Taos and influenced by European and American modern art.

The relevant provisions of the bill were repealed, and the jurisdiction of the House of Lords came to be regulated under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.

A bill introduced by John F. Hardin and John Harris carved Rockdale out of the northern portion of Newton County ; parts of Rockdale County also came from neighboring Henry, Walton, Gwinnett, and DeKalb counties.

The practical joke came as a result of Van Buren's vetoing a bill from Congress to improve the highway, a move which angered Western settlers.

Descriptive titles began to be added to the enrolled Acts by the official clerks, as a reference aid ; over time, titles came to be included within the text of each bill.

His management of the abortive education proposals of 1896 were thought to show a disinclination for the continuous drudgery of parliamentary management, yet he had the satisfaction of seeing the passage of a bill providing Ireland with an improved system of local government, and took an active role in the debates on the various foreign and domestic questions that came before parliament between 1895 to 1900.

Glover was on the bill to sing a few songs and Reid came on after three songs.

The bill came to £ 732, of which the Rees had already paid £ 250.

Two of the American Supreme Court's first decisions on the meaning of the bill of attainder clause came after the American Civil War.

With the bill suitably amended to remove the monopoly provisions, the Australian National Airways Commission came into existence in February 1946.

The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond ( D-SC ): " This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason.

As Secretary of State for Transport, Fowler drove through Lord Nugent's 1981 bill to make seat belts compulsory, a law that came into force in 1983.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

In 1933, Bert Bell, understanding that prerequisites to a NFL franchise being granted to him were changes in the blue laws, played the primary role of convincing then Governor Gifford Pinchot to issue a bill before the Pennsylvanian legislature to deprecate the Blue Laws.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

The constitution requires the governor of the islands to seek the approval of a secretary of state before assenting to any bill that affects " the currency of the Falkland Islands or relating to the issue of banknotes " or any bill that establishes " any banking association or altering the constitution, rights or duties of any such association ".

* 1879 – Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

As a result, Irsay began serious negotiations with Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut in order to move the team before the Maryland legislature could pass the bill and was able to secure loans from Indianapolis on the Hoosier Dome and a training complex.

In 1825 Adams signed a bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office – which became the Naval Observatory.

Bill Cosby, longtime spokesperson for the Jell-O brand, appeared before a joint session of the Utah Legislature in support of the bill.

The draft bill, which would increase the executive powers of the monarch, went before Parliament for a first reading in November.

The Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law.

In Italy, there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing ( e. g., excluding frozen pizzas ).

To this end, the prime minister goes before the lower and upper houses, reads out the bill to the legislators and closes with " the administration engages its responsibility " on the foregoing.

Typically, customers sit at tables, their orders are taken by a waiter, who brings the food when it is ready, and the customers pay the bill before leaving.

Benicio del Toro plays Argentine guerrilla Ernesto " Che " Guevara in an epic four-hour double bill which looks first at his role in the Cuban revolution before moving to his campaign and eventual death in Bolivia .< ref >

The constitution's bill of rights provides extensive guarantees, including equality before the law and prohibitions against discrimination ; the right to life, privacy, property, and freedom and security of the person ; prohibition against slavery and forced labour ; and freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and association.

After these attacks, Congress immediately started work on several proposed antiterrorist bills, before the Justice Department finally drafted a bill called the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001.

* February 15 – Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Thompson's staffers brought the bill to Washington and other black legislators before it would be presented to the floor.

He made adjustments in anticipation of some legislators ' concerns regarding the bill, before speaking for it in April 1979.

This is a general audience who've bought tickets before they even knew we were on the bill.

President John Quincy Adams, who in 1825 signed the bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office, had intended for it to be called the National Observatory.

A major bill such as the Securities Law can take years to draft, and a bill sometimes will not be put before a final vote if there is significant opposition to the measure.