Debate on the bill for apportioning representatives.
A third bill was soon afterwards introduced, apportioning the representatives on the several states at a ratio of one for every thirty-three thousand persons in each state, which passed into a law.
Among the first subjects of importance which engaged the attention of the legislature, was a bill "for apportioning representatives among the people of the several states according to the first enumeration.
Sidenote: Debate on the bill "for apportioning representatives among the people of the states according to the first enumeration.
One of two things, either the shares exist only as a survival of the servile arrangement out of which the free tenements may have grown, or else they exist primarily for the purpose not of assessing duties but of apportioning claims.
As for the waste, it does not even admit of set boundaries, and the only possible means of apportioning its use is to prescribe what and how many heads of cattle each holding may send out upon it.
If one pays more for the services of the singer than for those of the cook, it is not because he would rather listen to the singing than to eat, but because by apportioning his income he can get the singing and the eating too.
Sidenote: Apportioning of the cost] But when the government undertakes these various tasks, the expense falls unequally on individuals and affects differently their incomes.
Personal distribution is the actual apportioning of income to living persons.
No hard-and-fast rule for the apportioning of taxes can be laid down.
I use the word consented, because it is admitted that Bonaparte was not always perfectly just in apportioning the fame which he accorded to his generals.
Here is Ibsen's rough apportioning of the work for each act in a play of which he was thinking.
In apportioning the story into acts the first requisite is, then, that the total, even with the necessary waits between acts, shall not exceed the length of time during which the public will be attentive.
The Convention, as we have seen, had settled the rule for computing the number of inhabitants of a State, for the purposes of representation, and had made it the same with that for apportioning direct taxes among the States.
In apportioning the representatives many members of Congress endeavored to obtain the largest possible number, in order to preserve the rights of the States and check the power of the executive.
Let it be sufficient to remedy the evil by putting them in a condition of descending again to the community by the quiet means of apportioning them among all the heirs and heiresses of those families.
This will give the rule for apportioning the number of Members to be elected to the National Convention in each of the counties.
Congress thought that the money to pay the loans from foreign Governments by which the war had been carried on, might be secured more easily by a new mode of apportioning their quotas among the thirteen States.
Give the rule of apportioningrepresentatives and direct taxes.
The different modes of apportioning members of the legislature have in view the same object--equal representation; that is, giving a member to the same number of inhabitants in one county or district as to an equal number in another.
So in apportioningtaxes according to population, the state in the case we have supposed, would have to raise three dollars for every two that it would raise if no slaves were counted.
I shall, however, waive any remarks on this for the present, and confine myself principally to the rule which was adopted for apportioning the expenses of the war among the several States.
Again, in 1888 the Legislature asked the Governor to appoint another Commission to investigate and report upon a scheme for gradual abolition and the method of apportioning the expense.
To determine the relative costs to the railroads of performing mail, passenger and freight service, we must allocate the expenses to freight and passenger service as a whole, afterwardsapportioning the latter to mails and other service.
What was meant by "population," which had been substituted for wealth as a basis of apportioning delegates in the popular branch?
Until some count of the number of people could be taken to secure a proportionate representation, the Constitution had set an arbitrary number of sixty-five, apportioning them among the States by a guess at the respective populations.
Read them out, Jim,' said Mrs. Cameron, looking up from her task of apportioning the peas and cauliflower and potatoes.
The better and better apportioning of wages to work.
Shall we say then, The world has retrograded in its talent of apportioning wages to work, in late days?
Duty of justly apportioningthe Wages of Work done.
A game-preserving Aristocracy, guiltless of producing or apportioning anything.
The Legislature shall provide for the future elections of Representatives, apportioning them in each State, from time to time, as nearly as may be to the number of persons described in the 4Sec.
As fractions can not be regarded in apportioning the N^o of representatives, the rule will be unjust, until an actual census shall be made.
The two persons officiating as assessors and apportioning compensation to the various claimants, are Westmacott and "Robert Transit" (the artist himself).
Aside from the apportioning of the direct taxes among the arrondissements, they are restricted pretty generally to the administration of highways, canals, schools, asylums, and similar interests.
At length the committee presented their report, reorganizing the regiments, reducing their number, and apportioning on the several states their respective numbers to complete the establishment.
This subject was under deliberation until the 25th of February, when sundry resolutions were passed, apportioning on the states their respective quotas of provisions, spirits, and forage, for the ensuing campaign.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apportioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
