The Continental Congress was without power toraise money by taxation, and had to depend upon credit bills and requisitions drawn against the several Colonies.
Between that date and 1812 thirteen tariff bills were passed to raise money to meet public expenditures and pay off the national debt.
The paper dollar was practically valueless and the people were forced to give the Government adequate powers to raise money and to impose taxes.
Reed had written that he was doing poorly with his western mining ventures, and would have to raise money at once.
But in order to raise money at once I shall be obliged either to sell my oil holdings or mortgage them.
Why, didn't you know that the Popes used toraise money by selling their pardons and indulgences?
He tells me now the great question is, whether a Parliament or no Parliament; and says the Parliament itself cannot be thought able at present to raise money, and therefore it will be to no purpose to call one.
We are endeavouring to raise money by borrowing it of the City; but I do not think the City will lend a farthing.
Carteret did say that he had no funds to raise money on; and being asked by Sir W.
The plea may perhaps be pressed in defense of Congress, that financial legislation, laggard as it was, ran before popular readiness to raise money by taxes.
The promise had been made that every common soldier should receive for his pay five thousand drachmas; so it was likely there would be need of pretty severe taxing and levying to raise money.
And it was said that it was in order to have time to raise money that he had marched so slowly that he was not present at the former attack.
Barker, supplemented this with: "It is absolutely impossible to raise money in the State to pay speakers and furnish literature.
The acts of the defendants in attempting to raise money by public subscription for a statue of the said Mary M.
To raise money he obliged all those who had borne arms for the king to pay him 10 per cent of their rental.
Attempts to raise money by forced loans in place of taxes failed to remove the financial distress into which Charles had fallen, and consequently, in 1628, he consented to summon a third Parliament.
He would go into a store and say he was trying to raise money to take some of the poor children to the circus, and a dozen hands would go down into a dozen pockets in two jerks of a continued story, and they would all chip in.
As a first measure to raise money, he informed Charles that it would be necessary to call a Parliament.
But anger and discontent were spreading throughout the country, from the outrageous measures to raise money.
The king of Great Britain "may make war, but has not power to raise money to carry it on.
It is authorised to raise money to any amount, and in any way it pleases.
The assembly insist on their right to appropriate as well as to raise money.
When these extra drafts and notes of Terry & Barnum were added to the debts of the Company, he was obliged to resort to various expedients to raise money to pay them.
He was also obliged to issue short drafts and notes and raise money on them at fearful rates.
Franklin suggested a lottery, to raise money, and went to New York to borrow guns.
The plan which seemed most effective was to send a representative accredited to some foreign government, and instructed to raise money at once.
But it does seem as if those who labor early and late in the office, often single-handed, ought not to have to go out to raise money to meet a deficit they were obliged to incur purely in order to serve the woman's movement.
Accordingly, we decided that if we must "raise money" each year in some way or other, we must go about it in a well thought out way and not leave such an important matter to haphazard uncertainties.
It will doubtless be possible to raise money to meet them from individuals as in the past, although that is an uphill and rather thankless task.
It has been abundantly permitted, to raise money by lottery for the purposes of schools; and in this, as in many other cases, the lottery has been permitted to retain a part of the money (generally from ten to fifteen per cent.
Were it a bill to raise money, its origination in the Senate would condemn it by the constitution.
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