What is "licences"

Usage examples of "licences".

Now the Brewers had for some years been agitating about their licences, --and it is acknowledged in politics that any measure is to be carried out, or left out in the cold uncarried and neglected, according to the number of deputations which may be got to press a Minister on the subject.

An attempt to give an idea of such disgusting and contemptible campaigns for the search of licences is really odious to an honest man.

It was only one day in each month that there was a search for licences, was it not?

Downing proposed as an amendment, that the licences should not be burned.

The meeting then dissolved, many of them having previously burned their licences, and thus virtually pledging themselves to the resolution adopted, which might be said to have been the business of the day.

Rede could promise us to take into consideration the present excited feelings of the diggers, and use his best judgment as to a further search for licences on the morrow.

CARBONI RAFFAELLO, and the date covers the period at which the licences were burned.

Rede would give an assurance that he would not go out again with the police and military to collect licences, they could undertake that no disturbance would take place.

I spent an age checking those gun licences and that was not straightforward at all.