The payment of some fifteen hundred dollars of debts was a different matter.

Cook remarks: "The payment of six months' wages to the officers, and crews of these two sloops, being nearly all they had due, was an indulgence never before granted to any of His Majesty's Ships.

Stockdale (Memoirs, ii. 57) says that, in 1770, the payment to writers in the Critical Review was two guineas a sheet, but that some of the writers in The Monthly Review received four guineas a sheet.

But payment of debts is, in times of high political tension, a two-edged sword, if it is carried out at the cost of necessary outlays.

Would not the payment of the money be evidence against him to any jury?

[Footnote 4: There are border-line cases where it is difficult to decide whether a particular payment to the government in the form of a fee, price for service (as water rates, etc.), and special assessment (as for street paving) is in the legal sense a tax or not.

"On the to-morrow's morning, howadji," he said, "we enseech that you will write a sorrowsome letter to Cabell Effendi, in the Broad Street of New York; and say to him that all of us have made strike and that we shall work no more until we have from his hands a writing that our payment shall be two mejidie for every mejidie we have been capturing from his company.

So that it didn't seem much of a step to say also, we will regulate the rate of wagesparticularly as the payment of wages in money was rather a new thing.

At the close of his dinner this bill or demand is presented to him with the prices annexed, and prompt payment is the law.

At last the squire had learned that Mountjoy owed so much on post-obits that the farther payment of them was an impossibility.

"Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of him as being King(of him as Kingor, that he is King) to whom we think it due.

The payment of specie was so entire a novelty that, when the inquiries and explanations natural after a long separation were concluded, it was among the first topics touched upon.

"Payment of Tribute is an Acknowledgment of his being King to whom we think it Due.

On the other hand, the cardinal's payments were sorry ones; and the poet might with justice have thought, that he was not bound to consider them an equivalent for the time be was expected to give up.

Thus the earlier payments to workers in cases of accidents were not insurance indemnity but merely damages collected in court for the fault of the employer.

The payment of a higher price is no guarantee that the workers who produce the goods are not "sweated."

The payment of two oxen was hush-money for the life of a man.

The payment of freight charges is true economy when the goods can be bought at a distance on more favorable terms than near home.

These pension payments were in themselves a heavy burden on the state; not only that, but they formed a difficult transport problem!

All her payments were payments on account.

It seems most probable that the payment was fifty pounds per two books, not fifty for each.

In doing this the earliest practicable payment of the public debt should be a cardinal principle of action.

To WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Mr. Moses Solomons, an honored client of our firm, has placed with us, that payment may be straightway enforced, a bill drawn by John Heminge, for £10, due in two months from the date thereof, and the payment of which was assured by you in writing.

Wage payment, therefore, is a form of insurance to the workingman; he gets something definite instead of taking chances he is ill prepared to take.

Hence the non-payment of arrears is a violation of a special and voluntary contract with a lodge, and not of any general duty to the craft at large.