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17 December 1919 – The Assembly passed a law that called for a one-off wealth tax to pay for the national debt. 18 January 1920 – The Assembly passed the law on workers' councils. 13 March 1920 – The Assembly left Berlin as a result of the Kapp Putsch. It returned from Stuttgart seven days later.
An act to enable the governor, council, and assembly of his Majesty's colony of New York, to pass an act of assembly for creating and issuing upon loan paper bills of credit to a certain amount; and to make the same a legal tender in payments into the loan offices and treasury of the said colony. Citation: 10 Geo. 3. c. 35: Territorial extent
An Act for granting to his Majesty the Sum of two hundred thousand Pounds, to be issued and paid to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by them placed to the Account of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 101))
Declaring bankruptcy allowed a debtor to avoid prison, but this was not an option available to everyone. Until 1861 it was limited to the merchant class. [ 7 ] Furthermore, the cost of filing for bankruptcy was £10, [ 7 ] which represented 10-20% of the average annual income for the common worker in the mid-1860s.
An Act for repealing so much of an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to explain, amend and reduce into One Act of Parliament, the General Laws now in being for regulating the Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England, and for other Purposes," as is to subject Carriages, having ...
The largest amount of greenbacks outstanding at any one time was calculated as $447,300,203.10. [7] The National Bank Act (ch. 58, 12 Stat. 665; February 25, 1863), originally known as the National Currency Act, was passed in the Senate by a 23–21 vote, and was supplemented a year later by the National Banking Act of 1864. The goals of these ...
Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and avoid humiliation. The declaration stated that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
Long title: An Act to establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by the Director General of Fair Trading, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase, and their transactions, in place of the present enactments regulating moneylenders, pawnbrokers and hire-purchase traders and their ...