exchequer

• The total cost to the exchequer was estimated at around Rs 31,000 crore (Rs 310 billion). —  rediff.com
• The U.S. Federal Reserve has indicated it would look at buying U.S. treasuries as a way to boost banks 'lending power, while Britain's chancellor of the exchequer is set to approve this week the Bank of England's request to increase money supply through the purchase of bonds or other securities. —  canada.com Top Stories
• This plan after repeated discussions was agreed to, and the funds rose so high in consequence, that the chancellor of the exchequer was able to negociate a loan on advantageous terms to the public THE SLAVE-TRADE QUESTION Wilberforce seems to have placed his main dependence upon Fox, in the great question of the abolition of the slave-trade; but on the death of that minister, Lord Grenville took up the matter with greater zeal than he had manifested. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• The resolutions of the chancellor of the exchequer were agreed to without a division DISCUSSIONS REGARDING CANADA During this session, the affairs of Lower Canada were brought before parliament. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of Edward's approaching end 7 Edward VI. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary

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