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The armies that were under control moved back and forth across the countryside year after year, levying heavy taxes on cities, and seizing the animals and food stocks of the peasants without payment.
Among other items, the citizens agreed to charge fixed rates for student housing and food, an annual payment to the school, the right of the school to judge anyone associated with the school and the creation of a Chancellor for the University.
When the French king re-entered the city, his enemies in Paris fortified themselves in the Bastille ; after a siege, they eventually ran out of food, surrendered and were allowed to leave the city after the payment of a ransom.
In that same year, the aptly named ' Rampjaar ' ( disaster year ), the Franco-Dutch War broke out, and until 1674 foreign troops ( especially from Münster ) frequently marched through Ommen, demanding passage, payment, food and lodging.
Relief for those too ill or old to work, the so-called ' impotent poor ', was in the form of a payment or items of food (' the parish loaf ') or clothing also known as outdoor relief.
" Ring 10, a non-profit organization that helps impoverished former fighters, provides McClellan with a monthly food credit and raises funds to assist in payment of other necessities.
It was located in a particularly underprivileged neighborhood called La Cantera, and he accepted payment in-kind ( food, water, clothing ) if the client did not have any money.
He had treasuries of his own, and the payment and the food supplies of the army devolved upon him.
( Dr. Rimm has reported in the past that he has received payment or honoraria for presentations about food and diets from both the Culinary Institute of America and the International Chefs Association, among others.
" During the 1543-50 war of the Rough Wooing, life in Morpeth was disturbed by a garrison of Italian mercenaries, who ' pestered such a little street standing in the highway ' by killing deer and withholding payment for food.
In the scifi novel The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, the Watchmakers are a small technologically intelligent sub-species of the Moties that will repair / improve things left for them ( accompanied by food as payment ).
However, it remains a standard method of payment for ordering products and services produced quickly and near the point of delivery ; this is particularly common with the ordering of food, and it is the standard model for pizza delivery services, though some pizza restaurants require a credit card number before they will send a delivery, due to fraud and prank callers.
For a combination of factors since the introduction of the smoking ban and the EU single payment grant to farmers, most public houses offer food to help subsidize the drop in alcohol sales.
Kenny noted similarities — particularly in face-blackening and in the donning of women's garments — with the practice of mummery, in which festive days were celebrated by mummers who traveled from door to door demanding food, money, or drink as payment for performing.
In the far-flung forts of the old west officers would organize their food service in two ways: a " Closed Mess " was when the few officers of a small fort would pool all of their food funds to provide all meals to members only, thus being " closed " to outsiders except as guests ; in a larger post, the larger pool of officers could allow the officers to purchase meals on an individual meal basis ( after payment of a small monthly dues amount ).
According to the Government Accountability Office, at a 2009 count, there was a payment error rate of 4. 36 % of food stamps benefits down from 9. 86 % in 1999.
The first dream shows a group of starving peasants working at looms to weave his robe where they receive little payment or food despite being worked so hard.
The portion of the agreement which permitted Gulf credit cards to be used for payment of food and lodging at Holiday Inns was copied by competing lodging chains and major oil companies during the mid-to-late 1960s.
The activities included healing people, helping children, making decisions and protecting reindeer, which represented the most important source of food and were also used as tribute payment.
Healthcare services offered by JRS include referrals and payment for medical treatment ; healthcare services in detention centres ; work in clinics and hospitals ; food supplements ; health education and training for medical and nursing staff.
Lacking valuable resources, they can only offer food and shelter in payment.
The Minister readily agreed, although with conditions attached: the guns were to be used by military personnel, and troop transport was to be financed by the Western Australian government, and the farmers would provide food, accommodation, and payment for the ammunition.
They were also entitled to a number of privileges in terms of retirement pension, the payment of public utility charges, and the supply of food and other goods.

payment and prizes
He advertised it by setting up a competition to name the development, although the newspaper concerned — the Daily Express — sued Neville over the competition, holding that it was a scam, since he was offering " free " plots of land in the town as runner-up prizes, but issuing them only on the payment of a conveyancing fee.
Tharg writes the comic's introduction, answers letters, and doles out prizes to readers ( for artwork or story suggestions )-winners could choose payment either in pounds sterling or in " galactic groats ".
All prizes for Fantasy 5, Daily Derby, Daily 3, Daily 4, and non-jackpot SuperLotto Plus and Mega Millions prizes, are paid out in one payment, less 25 % or 33 % ( depending upon the winner's tax documentation ) Federal withholding if the prize is over $ 5, 000.

payment and was
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.
Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.
" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.
Notably, this was introduced more than fifty years before payment for attendance at assembly meetings.
Only then in fact was payment for assembly attendance, the central event of democracy ( Similarly for the period before the Persian wars, but for the very early democracy the sources are very meagre and it can be thought of as being in an embryonic state ).
18-bis Legge 91 / 1981 mainly for the abnormal signing in 2002 – 03 season, ( such as Davide Bombardini for € 11 million account value, which the flopped player exchange boosted 2002 – 03 season result ) and the tax payment of 2002 – 03 season was rescheduled.
The transfer process was initially slowed down by disputes between the Navy and the city regarding payment for environmental cleanup of the land.
Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.
More recently, the book, Tolbert's Texas, claimed that he was killed while being robbed of a large royalty payment by a guide escorting him to Union Station to catch a train home to Texas.
A payment plan was also offered.
Money was primarily a standardized medium of exchange, and final means of payment, that serves to measure the value of all goods and commodities in a standard of value.
Compensation was based on the principle of substitution which might include material ( for example, cattle, slave ) compensation, exchange of brides or grooms, or payment of the blood debt.
Arthur Wright was " obviously impressed " that Conan Doyle was involved, and gave his permission for publication, but he refused payment on the grounds that, if genuine, the images should not be " soiled " by money.
In 2007 that payment was £ 4m, with an annual increase in rate.
When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).
Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.
Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.
No monetary payment was made from the US to the UK as part of this agreement or any subsequent amendment.
When payment was not forthcoming for the first story he sold to Gernsback, Wollheim formed a group with several other authors, and successfully sued for payment.

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