* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives.

The introduction of postage stamps meant that the receipt of letters was now free of charge, whereas before stamps it was normal for postal charges to be paid by the recipient of a letter.

On 23 September 1846, the night following his receipt of the letter, Galle and his student Heinrich d ' Arrest discovered Neptune, exactly where Le Verrier had predicted.

* August 8 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( Davis refuses the request upon receipt ).

It was officially established on February 21, 1907 at the Royal Hotel in Bondi-as was recorded in the newspaper The East Sydney Argus, and in the Waverley Council Minutes acknowledging receipt of a letter from the newly formed group.

We therefore order you, on receipt of this letter, to take up residence in your diocese, so that — even if you are not competent to redress spiritual evils — you may at least minister to the temporal needs of the poor.

The phrase refers to the lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt, versus the virtually instantaneous dispatch and delivery of its electronic equivalent, e-mail.

Before it reached him, Ruhnken wrote a kind letter to Wyttenbach, which the recipient " read, re-read and kissed ," and another on receipt of the tract, in which the great scholar declared that he had not expected to find in Germany such knowledge of Greek, such power of criticism, and such mature judgment, especially in one so young.

The Congress has a maximum of 21 days after receipt of the Vice President and Cabinet's most recent letter to decide if the President is indeed not able to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

" Smyth set out upon receipt of the letter.

One does not need to establish a private mail delivery service for the occasional commercial transport of a letter outside the mails so long as the rate which would have been due to the USPS is affixed in stamps, the stamps are cancelled in ink, and the date of receipt by the carrier or the transport of the letter, are noted thereon.

Upon payment of this fee the sender is given a receipt, and ( usually ) a unique numbered registration label is affixed to the letter.

Upon receipt of the letter from Massachusetts Governor Briggs announcing Hoar's appointment, South Carolina Governor James H. Hammond promptly placed it before the South Carolina legislature, which issued several resolves, declaring the right of South Carolina to exclude its borders all persons whose presence might be considered dangerous ; denying that free Negroes were citizens of the United States, and for the Massachusetts commissioner:

Protesters continued to delay the destruction of the tree ; solicitors for the campaign had even argued ( successfully ) in court that receipt of a letter addressed to the tree itself gave it the status of a legal dwelling, causing a further delay.

Postage was paid on receipt of the letter by the addressee and remained so until the Rowland Hill reforms of the 1840s.

A note follows the letter, relating that James on receipt of the letter called the elders and read it to them.

“ I am in receipt of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's letter of July 8th.

There are so few words where the ei spelling for the / ee / sound follows the letter c that it is easier to learn the specific words: receive, conceive, deceive (+ the related words receipt, conceit, deceit ), perceive and ceiling.

" Upon receipt of the letter the resort shut down the lift in order to repair the over US $ 50, 000 in damages caused by the EMETIC.

Following receipt of about 2 billion francs from the state in exchange of the promise to safeguard 16, 000 jobs in the group, Bernard Arnault sent a letter to Laurent Fabius.

( 37th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION HANSARD • NUMBER 152 Thursday, November 6, 2003 ) “ That this House find George Radwanski to have been in contempt of this House, and acknowledge receipt of his letter of apology, tabled and read to the House earlier today .”

`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

Comedy is now one of the mainstays of the Fringe, with numerous notable comedians getting their ' break ' here, often through receipt of the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Lastly, he provides receipt of both Epaphroditus ' heroism ( 3. 25-30 ) and the arrival of " the gift " ( 4. 10 ), along with his promise of a divine accounting ( 4. 17-20 ).

The oldest system requires the printing and signing of a receipt, with the merchant verifying the signature on the receipt against the signature on the card.

Along with the press kit was a " Vote Godzilla for President " ad that, if mailed in, resulted in the receipt of a free ticket to the film.

Following this apocalypse, humans will be bodily resurrected to stand in a grand assembly anxiously awaiting receipt of a scroll detailing their righteous and sinful deeds and with the appropriate divine judgment entered thereto.

In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

Personal property can often be secured with similar kind of device, variously called a chattel mortgage, trust receipt, or security interest.

Latent Telepathy, formerly known as " deferred telepathy ", is described as being the transfer of information, through Psi, with an observable time-lag between transmission and receipt.

All of these honours are retained following an incumbent's departure from office, with the individual remaining in the highest categories of the orders, and they may also be further distinguished with induction into other orders or the receipt of other awards.

Despite the arrival of additional settlers, including whites, slaves and free blacks, from Bermuda and the receipt of relief supplies from Virginia and New England, the Eleuthera colony struggled for many years because of poor soil, fighting between settlers, and conflict with the Spanish.

Twice the Queen of the English kingdom, Emma of Normandy sits here in receipt of the Encomium Emmae, with her sons Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor in the frame.

The most common arrangement is for an email user ( the client ) to make an arrangement with a remote Mail Transfer Agent ( MTA ) server for the receipt and storage of the client's emails.

Anonymous emails are first sent to attempt to verify receipt, then a new web based email account is sent along with directions on how to retrieve the information.

* The Third Modification Law ( 1974 ), which extended individual entitlements to social assistance by means of higher-income limits compatible with receipt of benefits and lowered age limits for certain special benefits.

The ICRC states that Annex II is a "... draft which, according to Article 109 ( paragraph 1 ) of the Convention, will be applied in the absence of special agreements between the Parties, deals with the conditions for the receipt and distribution of collective relief shipments.

Instruments issued with OID generally impute the receipt of interest ( sometimes called phantom income ), even though these bonds don't pay periodic interest.

Abandoning his wife, Danglars flees to Italy with the Count's receipt, hoping to live in Vienna in anonymous prosperity.

All Adopt-A-Dino donors will be recognized in the following season's ROAR Magazine, in addition to receiving: Two all-sport season passes valid for all Dinos regular season home games, a plaque-mounted photo of your chosen athlete or team, an invitation to a free event to meet an interact with your chosen team, and a tax receipt for $ 890.

The code enforcement department includes the receipt of application, the issues of permits, notices, certificates and orders, the making of inspections to determine conformance with applicable codes and ordinances, review building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, fire and grading permits and make appropriate inspections.

In office, McNeill clashed with the King's Private Secretary when he insisted on following the constitutional advice of his Irish ministers, rather than the Palace, in procedures relating to the receipt of Letters of Credence accrediting ambassadors to the King in Ireland.

In February 2009, GM declared its intent to part with this brand by closing or selling the division, either to investors or to dealers, as part of restructuring plans dependent upon the receipt of a second round of government loans (" bailout " funding ).