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 bill — the 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.

He signed into law Senator Charles Sumner's Freedman's Bureau bill that set up a temporary federal agency designed to meet the immediate material needs of former slaves.

In 1961, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill that formally created the City University of New York to integrate these institutions, and a new graduate school, together into a coordinate system of higher education for the city, and by 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY.

On November 21, 1989, George H. W. Bush signed an appropriation bill authorizing payments to be paid out between 1990 and 1998.

In 1812, Governor Gerry signed a bill that redistricted Massachusetts to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party.

They may have authority to veto a bill until the houses of the legislature have reconsidered it, and approved it a second time ; reserve a bill to be signed later, or suspend it indefinitely ( generally in states with royal prerogative ; this power is rarely used ); refer a bill to the courts to test its constitutionality ; refer a bill to the people in a referendum.

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

On June 3, 2009, Lynch signed a same-sex marriage bill into law, despite being personally opposed to gay marriages, making New Hampshire the fifth state in the United States to allow such unions.

In 1816, Congress passed another bill to charter a second national bank ; Madison signed the act, having learned the bank was needed from the war with Britain.

President Pierce signed the bill into law on May 30.

In December 2004, the George W. Bush signed into law a bill extending normal trade relations to Laos.

Charles signed a bill agreeing that the present Parliament should not be dissolved without its own consent.

* 1942 – World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps ( WAAC ) is signed into law.

On October 27, 1986, President Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill into law, which granted $ 1. 7 billion in funding to fight the crisis and ensured a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

On October 1st 2012 California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the first bill banning gay conversion therapy.

In August 2012, the California State Assembly approved a bill to prohibit children and teenagers from undergoing conversion therapy, which Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on September 29, 2012.

In 1807, President Jefferson signed into law a bill that banned the importation of slaves into the United States.

Jefferson also signed into law a bill that officially segregated the US postal system by not allowing blacks to carry mail.

" On June 15, 1836, Jackson signed a bill that allowed Michigan to become a state, but only after it ceded the Toledo Strip.

In December 2009, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the bill to legalize same-sex marriage for the District of Columbia in All Souls Church, Unitarian ( Washington, D. C .).

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.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

In January 2010, the White House and congressional officials started work on repealing the ban by inserting language into the 2011 defense authorization bill.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

The signing of a bill into law is formally known as promulgation.

After the reign of Edward IV, impeachment fell into disuse, the bill of attainder becoming the preferred form of dealing with undesirable subjects of the Crown.

The Japanese constitution, which went into effect on 3 May 1947 includes a bill of rights similar to the United States Bill of Rights, and the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review.

* 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.

In order to reach the nectar, the bird must push its bill into the inflorescence.

In the new bill the territory of Nebraska was extended north all the way to the 49th parallel, and any decisions on slavery were to be made " when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.

On January 23 a revised bill was introduced in the senate that repealed the Missouri Compromise and divided the territory into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska.

In July 2008, the Legislature reintroduced the death penalty into Liberian law, with President Sirleaf signing the bill into law.

* 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture.

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.

So unpopular was her campaign among fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contraception into the senate, no other member would agree to ' second ' the initiative and so it could not be further discussed.