"Receivable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [Footnote: Address of the Gentry, Merchants, and others, Ibid., II. 236.] The sailors and soldiers were clamorous for their pay; and, to satisfy them, the colony was forced for the first time in its history to issue a paper currency. It was made receivable at a premium for all public debts, and was also fortified by a provision for its early redemption by taxation; a provision which was carried into effect in spite ...
— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman |
