The object of the committee was, to know in what way the Pursers of the Navy received their money, and what was the amount of their emoluments.
He wished to state, before he sat down, that he had learnt, soon after the present Secretary of the Navy came into office, the percentage of the Pursers was reduced from twenty to four or five per cent.
If any of the mariners doe buy any trifling furres or other commodities, we will they shall be registred in our pursers bookes, to the intent we may know what they be.
Often, leaning upon the column in the verandah, he had watched the English ships with English schoolmasters for pursers steaming into the bay.
It began by a few schoolmasters serving their passage out to South America as the pursers of tramp steamers.
Among sailors, also, Purserscommonly go by the name of nip-cheeses.
Masters, midshipmen, and pursers must do duty as seamen.
Lieutenants, masters, midshipmen, and pursers mingled with the seamen, and the work was done with promptness and precision.
Up betimes and to the office, there to prepare some things against the afternoon for discourse about the business of the pursers and settling the pursers' matters of the fleete according to my proposition.
Having done at the Park he set me down at the Exchange, and I by coach home and there to my letters, and they being done, to writing a large letter about the business of the pursers to Sir W.
The combination of captains and pursers to return false musters, or to present men to receive pay who never served, was another longstanding abuse.
You write the pursers aught not to be allowed the foure per cento which they bring to accompt for losse in monneys, and referr it to us to abate it.
Avery, pursers mate of the ship Elizabeth, died this morning of a wound he receved from a Fleming called Jno.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pursers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
