It also put the petitions in statutory form, called "bills", to be enacted after consideration and amendment by all without alteration.
The stamp duty was repealed the same year it had been enacted because it had been "attended with many inconveniences and may be productive of consequences greatly detrimental to the commercial interests of these kingdoms".
The Commons gained the stature of the Lords and statutes were regularly enacted by the "assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons", instead of at the request of the Commons.
Among the bills which he proposes to have enacted into law, is one, as has been mentioned, to abolish entirely the Courts of the District of Columbia.
I say it was a fall, when this community, which had solemnlyenacted justice, after the lapse of three years reversed its own decree, and solemnly enacted injustice.
Truer words were never uttered, as statement of philosophy, or warning to injustice enacted into law.
The bill from the Reconstruction Committee requiring this as a condition was not enacted into law, but the admission of Tennessee was a precedent stronger than law.
It was upon this uncontradicted, unqualified, universally admitted construction of the Bill that the House and Senate enacted it into a law.
He died without seeing his Civil Rights Bill enactedinto law.
Its prime object was to correct the wrongs which might be enacted in the South, and the correction proposed was direct and unmistakable; viz.
As matter of fact, a Republican Congress, largely composed of the same members who had enacted the law, indirectly confessed two years later that it could not be maintained.
If any one put away his wife on other grounds than these, he enacted that half his property should go to his wife, and half to the temple of Ceres.
He also enacted some laws, the most arbitrary of which is that a wife cannot obtain a divorce from her husband, but that a husband may put away his wife for poisoning her children, counterfeiting keys, or adultery.
One of his laws enacted that any citizen was at liberty to put to death anyone who tried to make himself king, without any form of trial.
The law, too, which he enacted about disobedience to the consuls is no less popular in its spirit, and favours the people more than the great nobles.
After this, he enacted laws which greatly added to the power of the people, the first one of which gave accused persons a power of appeal from the decision of the consuls to the people.
For he knew that, according to a law recently enacted by the Holy Office, and sanctioned by the Pope, no subsequent retraction could save a prisoner who had once confessed--he must die.
But a still more significant ceremonial was enactedin another place.
Possibly the hideous scenes enactedin Portugal in 1912 were deemed sufficient by the revolutionists for the time being.
At the same time stringent laws were enacted against the hasty multiplication of houses and the inevitable lack of formation which ensued.
The king received him cordially, enacted the most stringent laws against the abuses, and appointed him royal visitor and administrator of Chile, where similar disorders were complained of.
But no more can be said Of what was transacted And what was enacted In the heaving abodes Of the great sea-gods.
Among other things the statute enacted that "the alliaunce of the English by marriage with any Irish, the nurture of infantes, and gossipred with the Irish, be deemed high treason.
What is enacted is that about a hundred Acts and Ordinances, all duly enumerated, out of those made by the Barebones Parliament in 1653 or by Oliver and his Council after the establishment of the Protectorate in Dec.
V), four Americans and three islanders, at first enacted laws by the authority of the President as Commander-in-Chief.
At the other end of Stuart street was the state-house, erected in pursuance of an act, the preamble of which recites the disgrace of having laws enacted and judicial proceedings conducted in an ale-house.
Being a woman, her sole means of recognition was the "brave deed" which she so wonderfully described and enacted before the people.
Within arrow-shot he paused again, while the usual ceremonies were enactedfor his reception.
Senator Douglas's new sedition law must be enacted and enforced suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits or in private.
The laws enacted by congress for the protection of the rights of the Indians, and to promote their comfort and civilization, have, in a great variety of cases, remained a dead letter upon the statute book.
In 1866 a law wasenacted allowing a married woman to own property, but not including any wages she might earn.
In April, 1894, it was enacted that women might be notaries.
In 1887 a law was enacted giving all women the right to vote at all school elections for all officers, and making them eligible for all school offices.
LAWS: In 1884 a law was enacted giving a married woman the right to sue and be sued and to proceed in various other matters as if unmarried.
In 1887 this body enacted that women might vote at school meetings (i.
In 1892 it was enacted that women might study law and qualify for the Bar.
In many sections the liquor traffic has been abolished, always by the votes of women, but there are many more men than women in the State and without their co-operation no general reform can be enacted or enforced.
Several statutes were enacted in the present session, but none so material as that for abolishing monopolies for the sale of merchandise, or for using any trade.
The regulations enacted at various times since the Reformation for the observance of abstinence in as strict a manner, though not ostensibly on the same grounds, as it is enjoined in the church of Rome, may deserve some notice.
Nothing could have a stronger tendency to promote that vagabond mendicity, which unceasing and very severe statutes were enacted to repress.
It has indeed been often assumed that a statuteenacted early in the reign of Henry VII.
The court of star-chamber was the old concilium ordinarium, against whose jurisdiction many statutes had been enacted from the time of Edward III.
A law had been enacted some years before, levelled at the books dispersed by the seminary priests, which rendered the publication of seditious libels against the queen's government a capital felony.
London nevertheless increased rapidly, which was by means of licences to build; the prohibition being in this, as in many other cases enacted chiefly for the sake of the dispensations.
The lawsenacted against popery were precisely calculated to produce this result.
A strange little tragedy is being enacted in our kitchen.
One thinks of all the comedies and tragedies that have been enacted within these walls, the laughing romances of summer days, the weary suffering.
The Charter enacted that they should be in force up to 1866; but at that time, the country being at war with Paraguay, a Convention was convoked, which postponed the settlement of the matter for some years.
It was enacted that vagrant beggars should be enslaved.
Be it therefore ordered and enacted by the Right Hoble Cecilius Lord Baron of Baltemore absolute Lord Proprietary of this Province with the advice & consent of this Generall Assembly.
Then the little comedy was enacted at the Palais Bourbon, and the whole Socialist Ministerial Press clamoured, hysterically, for condign punishment of the Vatican and the vindication of the national honour.
Mr. Home went to see the character of Young Norval in his own play of Douglas enacted by the prodigy, and is said to have declared: "This is the first time I ever saw the part played according to my ideas of the character.
Mathews once personated a Spanish Ambassador; a frolic enacted by him at an inn at Dartford.
For the more ease of travellers," it was enacted by the General Assembly in January 1642, that the country provide and maintain ferries and bridges and the levy for payment to the ferrymen be made by the commissioners where the ferry is kept.
At nearly every session of the General Assembly some law was enacted "for the good regulation of ferries.
Throughout the whole period of royal government, there were enacted various laws remitting the duties on imports brought in on native ships and remission of tonnage duties.
In 1633, it was enacted by the General Assembly that all goods entering in any vessel--ship, bark or brig, should discharge at Jamestown.
There have been so many cases of blindness as a result of dynamite explosions occurring in quarries and mines, that laws have been enacted for the protection of workmen.
Owners of factories, quarries, mines and other industrial plants have become alive to the necessity of safeguarding the eyes of their operatives, and much needed legislation is being enacted in all parts of the country.
Similar scenes must have been enacted at Phæstos and Hagia Triada, either by other forces of invaders, or by the same host sweeping round the island.
Beyond that lay the great waste land of legend, in which gods and godlike heroes moved and enacted their romances among 'Gorgons and Hydras and Chimeras dire.
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