exchequer bill

I believe Exchequer Bills have historically been used to pay war costs up front.

This guarantee could be either Exchequer bills or other government securities in England.

Section 8 - Forging exchequer bills, bonds and debentures etc.

Section 9 - Making plates etc. in imitation of those used for exchequer bills etc.

Bowen called on Herbert to form a new ministry which immediately carried an act authorizing the issue of exchequer bills.

He bought £6500 in exchequer bills, and with the balance he got American securities, paying with the bank notes.

In pursuance of the 3rd George I, c. 8, the bank delivered up two millions of exchequer bills to be cancelled.

The Act specifically forbade the commencement of settlements until twenty thousand pounds had been raised and invested in the government securities or Exchequer bills.

They also agreed to the interest reduction happening after four years instead of seven, and to sell on behalf of the government £1 million of Exchequer bills (formerly handled by the Bank).

In June 1699 he successfully defended Charles Duncombe against a charge of falsely endorsing exchequer bills, and four months later he was elected treasurer of the Middle Temple.

He represented to the emperor "the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent.

During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank, but the subscription failed; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills.

An inventive counterfeiter, Chaloner had taught Aubrey Price how to counterfeit the new exchequer bills by altering the denominations after removing the old ink using a liquid that Chaloner had invented.

Advances for Public Works Act 1840 was an Act to provide the necessary authorization for the provision of money (Exchequer bills) to further Public Works and for the Employment of the Poor.

Unfunded debt was represented as Exchequer Bills in this country and some hocus-pocus about merchants' overseas balances was said to permit its issuance; funded debt was the national loans scam to which tax revenue is applied to pay the interest.

It receives and pays the greater part of the annuities which are due to the creditors of the public, it circulates exchequer bills, and it advances to government the annual amount of the land and malt taxes, which are frequently not paid up till some years thereafter.

In 1700 Heathcote was sent to Parliament as member for the City of London, but he was soon expelled for his share in the circulation of some exchequer bills; however, he was again elected for the city later in the same year, and he retained his seat until 1710.