We have not sent you over all your bills; and I think we have altered your money-bill. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A debate subsequently occurred on the question which was mooted by a member of opposition, as to whether or no the Militia Bill was a money-bill. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
In order to compel the British government to concede a free trade the Irish parliament had, indeed, according to the instructions received from their constituents, voted a money-bill for six months only, instead of two years, as usual; and the charges which opposition brought against ministers were as fallacious as they were unwise and unjust. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
It was said that the country gentlemen in effecting this reduction, "had bribed themselves with a shilling in the pound of their own land-tax," but as this was the first money-bill in which any cabinet had been successfully opposed since the Revolution, it was rightly viewed as a symptom of weakness in the administration: yet Townshend retained his office. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
It was decided by a majority, however, that it was not a money-bill, and consequently it passed. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
Soon after it assembled, which was on the 10th of October, the members rejected a money-bill transmitted from England, upon the plea that it had been altered in council. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
A land-act was followed by one that withdrew from most of the towns of England the protection of a sanctuary in the case of certain specified crimes; the navy was dealt with; and then in spite of the promises of the previous years a heavy money-bill was passed. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
For the first time since the revolution the lords divided on a money-bill, and voted 49 against, to 83 for its committal. ❋ William Hunt (1886)
This was a serious blow to the government, and was the first occasion on which a minister had been defeated on a money-bill since the revolution. ❋ William Hunt (1886)
It was in vain to have attempted it before, for never was party violence [Footnote: The money-bill, brought forward this year under Lord Townsend's administration, encountered violent opposition, and was finally rejected.] carried to such a height as in this sessions; the House seldom breaking up till eleven or twelve at night. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)
-- We have not sent you over all your bills; and I think we have altered your money-bill. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)
♦ Fpect to that Houfe; and neither to reject them on the principle of their being contrary to a ftand -, ing order, or from the idea, which was pretty ge - nerally entertained, that their lordfliips were not competent to make alterations in a money-bill. ❋ Unknown (1783)
The Speaker obferved to the Houfe, that as the bill im powered, the crown to impofe duties, it was, Strictly f peaking, a money-bill; therefore the Houfe, consistently with it's own orders, could not fufter the amendment. ❋ Unknown (1783)
