Word: pay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Congress right in refusing to pay the Beaumarchais claim of one million livres...
...Post Office makes a very reasonable request for greater accuracy in the addressing of students' mail. Had he asked this as a matter of convenience to the Post Office alone, he would doubtless have asked in vain; but it is not unnatural to expect that the students will pay more heed to a request which is evidently made in their own interests. An error or omission in an address is likely to mean a delay of some ten hours in the delivery of a letter...
Owing to a misunderstanding the entrance fee for the whist tournament was announced as fifty cents a couple instead of fifty cents a man, which was the fee last year and is to be this. Those who have already entered may, if they do not wish to pay the additional fee, have their money returned and withdraw their entries...
Heretofore, Protestant denominations have been too decided in their own beliefs to pay much attention to the positions of others, and so, have more or less shut themselves off from union with others. The Roman Church has acted more wisely, in this respect, in the institution of its orders. It is to be hoped that the movement begun by the Conferences of Grindewald will tend to unite all sects and denominations in a common belief...
...committee thought that to erect and maintain such a memorial would require $300,000, of which $150,000 would be expended in the erection of the building and the remainder invested to pay the running expenses of the house. Owing to the hard times, when the committee was appointed, no formal appeal for subscriptions was made. Nevertheless voluntary subscriptions to the amount of $80,000 were received. As the times have been improving very slowly the committee has not yet made its appeal, but will probably make it soon...