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They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.
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.
He also complained that not enough notice was given on the hearing, since the bill was introduced only last Monday.
There was no debate as the Senate passed the bill on to the House.
Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
But the tardiness of the administration in making the dedication has caused legislators to suspect the tax bill was related more directly to an over-all shortage of cash than to segregation.
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.
Official reasoning: the bill was a `` wanton invasion of basic property rights ''.
Perhaps he had known then where that hundred dollar bill had come from and where it was taking his wife.
Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.
The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister at the time.
As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.
The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.
When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.
A private member's billthe Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.
Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.
This gave the cloner, through the Oki phone, the ability to use the mobile phone service of the legitimate subscriber whose phone was cloned just as if that phone had been physically stolen instead, except that the subscriber was not without his or her phone and was not aware that the phone had been cloned — at least until that subscriber received his or her next bill.
" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.
Bentinck, then still Conservative leader in the Commons, joined Disraeli in speaking and voting for the bill, although his own speech was a standard one of toleration.
The bill, however, was riddled with complexities and had to be withdrawn.

bill and drafted
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.
In 1999 Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardi, drafted section 211 of the 1999 Omnibus appropriations act, a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act.
The RSDG drafted a provisional constitution in May 1990 that provided a basic bill of rights and an independent judiciary but retained strong executive powers for the president.
The RSDG drafted a provisional constitution that provided a basic bill of rights and an independent judiciary but retained strong executive powers for the president.
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.
A European Constitution bill is rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, but a similar text, the Treaty of Lisbon, is drafted in 2007 and finally adopted by the 27 members countries.
On February 8, 1853, the Illinois Legislature adopted a resolution, drafted by Turner, calling for the Illinois congressional delegation to work to enact a land-grant bill to fund a system of industrial colleges, one in each state.
The Anti-Saloon League's Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who managed the legislation.
Johnson's administration drafted a bill intended to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments, aiming to eliminate various previously legal strategies to prevent blacks and other minorities from voting.
In 1837 — 1839, he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, effecting in 1838 the passage of a bill, drafted and introduced by himself, which provided for “ the better supervision of the common schools “, and established a board of “ commissioners of common schools ” in the state.
When the Principality of Hutt River seceded, a bill of rights, a brief document outlining the rights of " Hutt River " citizens, was drafted.
According to Aldrich and his biographer, Aldrich ( a lawyer ) drafted new language for Glass ’ s bill that became Section 21 of the Glass-Steall Act.
At the end of the next parliamentary sitting after this incident occurred, Rhodes tabled a bill that he had drafted that was the shortest in the history of the House.
In 1967, a bill to create a separate eye institute was drafted, and in August 1968, federal legislation created the National Eye Institute, to build an enlarged program based on the blindness research that had been conducted by NINDB.
As a consequence of this conference an improved bill was drafted which ensured that both the people and the parliaments of the various colonies should be consulted.
A bill was drafted and introduced, only to be withdrawn when it became clear that some of its other provisions ( most notably requiring specified improvements in couplings, so that those engaged in shunting could safely uncouple wagons without having to step into the gap between them ) were sufficiently contentious as to jeopardise passage of the non-controversial portions of the Bill.
Three days later, President Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, a generally conservative bill, drafted in large part by holdovers from the Hoover administration, designed primarily to protect large banks from being dragged down by the failing smaller ones.
Mayor Ed Koch, who signed the bill enacting it into law said: " The legislation drafted by Tom Stoddard was perfect.
He established a National Society for Women's Suffrage, drafted the Women's Disabilities Removal Bill ( the first women's suffrage bill in England ) and was author of the bill which became the Married Women's Property Act ( 1882 ) which gave wives absolute control over their property and earnings.
During the debate over the proposed Patients ' Bill of Rights legislation, Fletcher opposed a Democratic proposal that would have allowed individuals to sue their health maintenance organizations ( HMOs ), favoring instead a more limited bill drafted by Republican leadership that expanded the patient's ability to appeal HMO decisions.
A legislator sends the idea for the bill to the California Office of the Legislative Counsel, where it is drafted into bill form.
A legislator sends the idea for the bill to the Department of Legislative Reference's bill drafting division, where it is drafted into bill form.

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