passage of an act

He was instrumental in passage of an act in 1898 that allowed for destruction of records of little apparent value back to 1660.

In July 1861, Stevens secured the passage of an act to confiscate the property, including slaves, of certain rebels.

The federal parole system was created with the passage of an act authorizing the parole of prisoners sentenced to terms of one year or more.

Upon her arrival in America, she labored successfully for the passage of an act of Congress requiring that sanitary provision should be made on emigrant vessels.

With the election of President Andrew Jackson in 1828, he pressed for Indian removal, gaining Congressional passage of an act authorizing that in 1830.

It was formed by the passage of an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1994, from the Ballarat College of Advanced Education.

His most important achievement was his role in the drafting and passage of An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery[1] in 1780.

Grey's activities were one of the reasons for the passage of an Act of Parliament in 1468, declaring illegal the practice of retaining, the maintenance of a private army.

A limited form of franking privilege originated in the British Parliament in 1660, with the passage of an act authorizing the formation of the General Post Office.

The county was named for Newton County Representative David T. White, who helped a Habersham representative successfully attain passage of an act creating the new county.

To transport the iron and to bring the coal necessary for the smelting, Winn campaigned for a railway to be built, which required the passage of an Act of Parliament.

It was at this time that a political battle over the so-called People's Budget resulted in the passage of an act ending the power of the House of Lords to block legislation.

Suicide squad (New Zealand), 25 politicians appointed in 1950 to the New Zealand Legislative Council to assist passage of an Act of Parliament to abolish the Council.

The governor sent to the two houses his message recommending, among other things, the passage of an act "dissolving all political connection between the State of Missouri and the United States of America."

In 1916 Prince Jonah Kuhio, Hawaii's territorial delegate in the U.S. Congress, achieved passage of an act establishing Hawaii National Park, which included the summit of Haleakala.

The Bristol Docks Company was formed to construct the Floating Harbour following the passage of an Act of Parliament in 1803, sponsored by the City Corporation and the Merchant Venturers.

In 1847 he took the U. S. frigate "Macedonian" to Ireland with supplies for the sufferers from the famine, having exerted himself to secure the passage of an act of Congress permitting a government vessel to be so employed.

Indian policy made a radical swing backwards in the 1950s when Utah Senator Arthur V. Watkins, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Subcommittee, promoted passage of an act to terminate all federal responsibility toward Indian tribes.

He feared that passage of an act making permanent the pay raises for executive administrative personnel first enacted in 1799 would hurt his party in the upcoming elections, especially in the House, but the act passed and there was no significant backlash at the polls.

From 1561 he represented the University of Cambridge whenever he was not engaged as a justice, and in 1571 he was thanked by the University for his work in securing the passage of an Act of Parliament confirming its charters and privileges.

The founders of Humboldt numbered among them some influential men who, unknown to the citizens of the county, appeared before the free-state Territorial Legislature early in the year 1858, and secured the passage of an act locating the county seat at Humboldt.

He oversaw the passage of an act of parliament authorizing construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project - designed to his own plans - that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land.

A significant event that would in time accelerate the spread of cricket throughout England was the passage of an Act of Parliament on Friday 5 May that authorised creation of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway and effectively began the railway boom.

When local CPP supporters gained control of enough regional assemblies, however, the Nkrumah government promptly secured passage of an act removing the special entrenchment protection clause in the constitution, a step that left the National Assembly with the power to effect any constitutional change the CPP deemed necessary.