I was also requested to consider the propriety of extending the system of licensing to the keeping of pigs.
By it, the unsuccessful miner was not called upon to pay as much as one who had been fortunate; and the diggers were no longer annoyed and insulted by the minions of the Licensing Commission.
Not long after, the licensing system was abolished; and in its stead an export duty of two shillings and sixpence per ounce, was levied upon the gold.
A "licensing commissioner" at their head, proved that they were looking for "unlicenced" miners.
The licensing act, which had been passed soon after the Restoration, had expired in 1679.
In England the Groom Porter of the Palace had a jurisdiction over games of chance, and made some very dirty gain by issuing lottery tickets and licensing hazard tables.
The unpaid magistracy, so called, have been accused of licensing public-houses on an arbitrary principle, but it is tolerably certain that they do not grant any preference without a sufficient consideration.
From 1682 the freedom of the press may therefore be said to date, and the lapse of the Licensing Act was the signal for a remarkable outburst of journalistic enterprise and invention.
The Federal government and nearly all the states and territories have statutory provisions requiring the examination and licensing of persons practising certain trades other than those in the class of recognized professions.
The Commissioners, indeed, may withdraw the licence, but the keeper of such a house must again have it on the next licensing day, if he wishes, upon giving the necessary security.
In the metropolis, the power of licensingis exclusively in the hands of the Metropolitan Commissioners.
The players, however, were not to win so easily the next dispute, the one that took place after the passage of the licensing act.
There was no chance, therefore, to sidestep the monopoly effected by the licensing act.
For other effects of the licensing act see Scouten, London Stage, cxlvii, and Ralph, Case of the Present Theatrical Disputes, pp.
The licensing act, subsequent cartel, and mistreatment of players were then not only in the mind of Mrs. Clive.
As I intimated at the outset, the licensing act mainly troubled the London players because of the power of monopoly it invested in Fleetwood and Rich.
In 1881 the temperance women of the State again petitioned for the right to vote on the question of licensing the sale of liquor.
There was an attempt this year to get a law licensing houses of ill-fame in Chicago, and an immense petition was rolled up and presented to the legislature by ladies who desired to defeat the proposed enactment.
A few weeks after these words were published the liberty of the stage was triumphantly stifled by Walpole's Licensing Bill.
As a manager of the intrepid little theatre in the Haymarket, as well as the author of the most successful of the offending plays, the Licensing Act fell with double weight on Fielding.
The letter said that their people understood that the Marchare Laboratories had under development a remarkably strong paper, and they would be very much interested in discussing licensing possibilities with us.
An agreement between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1995 seeks to defuse licensing and sovereignty conflicts that would dampen foreign interest in exploiting potential oil reserves.
Television broadcast stations: 13 note: government is licensing a limited number of TV stations operated by various factions Televisions: 1.
This is stigmatised by the Portuguese as licensing desertion, from the army of the King and Cortes; whatever they may call it, I am convinced that the measure tends to the present tranquillity of the capital.
Why is the licensing of university professors to teach not followed in our American universities?
The act of licensing should certainly be conducted upon one uniform system and set of regulations; and the revocation of licences should likewise be in the hands of one body.
This furnishes an argument for handing over the licensing power to the Commissioners in Lunacy, who exercise this portion of their duties with the greatest care and after the most minute examination.
You have heard what I think of the management of your house, and I hope that the licensing justices will .
Can any of your readers inform me what was the law in 1665 relative to the licensing of books?
Some were for a renewal of the Licensing Act, some for requiring writers' names after their articles.
But the Revolution brought indulgence even to the Jacobite Press; and when the Commons, in 1695, refused to renew the Licensing Act, a censorship of the press was for ever renounced by the law of England.
A comparison of its sarcastic strokes with the serious arguments of lord Chesterfield's speech in the house of lords against the bill for licensing the stage, will be both amusing and instructive.
The advocates for the licensing act have alleged, that the lord chamberlain has always had authority to prohibit the representation of a play for just reasons.
And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book-licensing ripped up and drawn as lineally as any pedigree.
I fear their next design will be to get into their custody the licensing of that which they say Claudius intended, but went not through with.
And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.
What is it but a servitude like that imposed by the Philistines, not to be allowed the sharpening of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licensing forges?
And God send that the fear of this diligence, which must then be used, do not make us affect the laziness of a licensing Church.
Which is what I promised to deliver next: that this order of licensing conduces nothing to the end for which it was framed; and hath almost prevented me by being clear already while thus much hath been explaining.
Our garments also should be referred to the licensing of some more sober workmasters to see them cut into a less wanton garb.
The teetotallers deliberately wrecked the only Government which was prepared to reform the licensing system.
In 1873 the Gladstone Government, now drawing towards the close of its remarkable history, introduced a great measure of licensing reform, known at the time as Mr. Bruce's Bill.
But the fanatics did kill Mr. Bruce's Licensing Bill, and the thirty years that have followed have in consequence seen no amelioration of the greatest of our social evils.
For more than thirty years the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, has been their cry; and as a consequence they have seen these years pass without the carrying of any real amendment of our licensing system.
The same merited distinction they continued to maintain after his death, till the theatre itself was extinguished: for they are expressly mentioned in a warrant in 1622, for licensing certain "late Comedians of Q.
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