"The expense is a drawback, but the committee would not let me drop out.

Probably the expense was the real hindrance.

The expense of a special licence is about twenty-eight or thirty guineas, whereas that of an ordinary licence is but two guineas and a half; or three guineas where the gentleman or lady, or both, are minors.

Your only expense for labor will be one assistant to set type and do odd jobs, since you are so competent that you can attend to all else yourselves.

He had a fair income, being skillful and in good practice, but he had a son in college, and his expenses were a considerable drain upon his father's purse.

The expenses of the present provision for superannuated and disabled sailors, is no inconsiderable tax upon the publick, which is not less burdened by it for the manner of collecting it by a deduction from the sailors' wages; for, whoever pays it immediately, it is the ultimate gift of the nation, and the utmost that can be allowed for this purpose.

The travelling expenses for one person are about 200 rupees (20 pounds), independent of the luggage, which is reckoned separately.

Butter gives a bad colour; lard and clarified dripping are most frequently used; but oil is the best, if the expense be no objection.

To the Congress of the United States: I transmit herewith to Congress a report from the Secretary of State, showing the circumstances under which refuge was given on board the United States ship St. Louis, Captain Sloat, to the vice-president of the Republic of Peru and to General Miller, and the expense thereby incurred by Captain Sloat, for the payment of which there is no fund applicable to the case.

This was adjusted by a prolongation of the period of reimbursement in nature of a new loan at an interest of 5 per cent for the term of ten years, and the expenses of this operation were a commission of 3 per cent.

In a war of this kind, expense is the last and lowest consideration, and where experience may be consulted, the conjectures of speculation ought to have no weight.

The additional charges in this respect cannot be of any great consequence; although, in reality, by the receipts increasing through the impulse of an administrative order more perfect, and the expenses being always the same, the main object, so anxiously sought for in another way, would be thus attained.

As a large proportion of the students were young men to whom the expenses of the education were a serious matter, many prepared themselves at home to enter the junior class, so that a class which only numbered a score as freshmen, often graduated a hundred.

My only heavy expenses are colors, canvas, frames, etc., and these are heavy.

Those expenses (that, at least, was the original idea) were to be borne wholly by the conquered enemy.

My expenses this week have been as follows: Rent 35 cents Corn meal 14 " Milk 20 " Bread 8 " Beef bone 5 " Honey 5 " Four potatoes, about 1 " 88 cents.

for the mechanical schools, the average expenses per student being about 254 dols.

[-21-] Gaius had now spent practically all the money in Rome and the rest of Italy, gathered from every source from which he could in any way get it, and as no resource that was of any value or practicable could be found there, his expenses became a source of great annoyance to him.

The expense of maintaining the prisoners is 8,000 cruzados, or about 1,000l. per annum.

I am assured that the only expense to the colony is the fee for survey, amounting to eighteen dollars for a ten-acre allotment, as the Coolie prefers the thinly-wooded and comparatively poor lands, from the greater facility of clearing them; and these lands are quite unsaleable to other customers.

As is always the case in such hopeless enterprises, the expenses multiplied beyond belief.

It is not yet too late to supply this defect, and the expense to government would be a mere bagatelle.

But when it comes to defining their ideas of protection and the respective rights and duties of each under it, what portion of the Government is to be administered by them and what portion by us; how the revenues are to be collected, and in what proportion the expenses are to be divided; they have no clear ideas at all; nor is it expected that they should have, after generations of Spanish rule without any experience in self government.

Afterward the expense should be about 66 pesos an acre, and the return 90 pesos.

In making the selection, a suitable climate should be considered, in justice to the health of the negro, as it is clear, from the fate of those who fly from persecution to Canada, that they are unable to resist cold; and proximity to the ocean is desirable, as affording a cheap conveyance for those who become manumitted: the expense of a passage to Liberia is one great obstacle to its utility.