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Usage examples of "public treasury".
TO each of the said grammar schools shall be allowed out of the public treasury, the sum of pounds, out of which shall be paid by the Treasurer, on warrant from the Auditors, to the proprietors or tenants of the lands located, the value of their several interests as fixed by the jury, and the balance thereof shall be delivered to the said overseers to defray the expence of the said buildings.
Not only their public treasury but even their temples were plundered, and they were all compelled to contribute their private stores of gold and silver.
A foreigner who brings a settler for every 100, or 200 acres of land to be granted him pays a better price than if he had put into the public treasury 5/ or 5£.
In providing for the public treasury they require regular taxes and not tyrannical confiscations.
At length recourse was had to what seemed the smoothest plan, namely, that any one who wished to discharge the obligation for himself and his household should make a valuation of his share and contribute the value of a tenth of it to the public treasury, in order that out of the proceeds a golden crown might be made, worthy of the grandeur of the temple and the august divinity of the god, and such as the honour of the Roman people demanded.
Every establishment for benevolent and educational purposes is evidently sinking, now that the special streams which nourished them run into and are lost in the dry bed of the public treasury.
But this other one--the one I read last--has the true ring: 'This vile, dirty effort to rob the public treasury, by the kites and vultures that now infest the filthy den called Congress'--that is admirable, admirable!
They wanted to overthrow President Avispa's honest, low-cost government, so they could loot the public treasury, tax the citizens to bankruptcy for a year or two, then skip to Paris and the fleshpots of Europe for a life of luxury on the proceeds.
Sixty sestertia, which Domitius had brought with him and lodged in the public treasury, being brought to Caesar by the magistrates of Corfinium, he gave them back to Domitius, that he might not appear more moderate with respect to the life of men than in money matters, though he knew that it was public money, and had been given by Pompey to pay his army.
In the beginning Congress allowed Continental crews a third to a half the value of the vessel taken, the balance going to the public treasury.
At that time, too, the public treasury was too low to pay the soldiers, and private resources were used for public purposes.
These are the things the Government has its evil eye upon, and a happy thing it will be for Italy when they melt away in the public treasury.
He left the public treasury without a dollar, and the national credit so much impaired that borrowing money was difficult if not impossible.
This swindle has in some cases been repeated once or twice on the same victim in the course of the same month--but the public treasury was no additionally enriched by it, probably.
These priests of the Keeper will not be paid out of the public treasury, but will instead work with their hands like any other men and women.