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Definition of Pursers
1. purser [n] - See also: purser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursers
Literary usage of Pursers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"Pay of pursers in the Navy. Mr. НА.так said, whenever he heard the constitution
mentioned on the floor, he knew at once what its fate would be—that it would ..."
2. The Law of Mines, Quarries and Minerals by Robert Forster MacSwinney (1884)
"Purser/ ami pursers' suits and creditors' suits 8 are part of the equitable ...
A pursers or creditors suit is instituted by petition, addressed to the ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"And pursers are prohibited thereafter from " charging any profit or percentage
... pursers are allowed a commission of 5 per cent. on the amount of sales of ..."
4. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"Mr. FOOT moved to amend that part of the bill filing the compensation for pursers,
while settling their accounts at the seat of Government, ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"The subordinate officers who had always given more trouble than any others were
the pursers.83 They were negligent and lazy, and took full advantage of ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Fixed salaries were prescribed for pursers in the navy by the act of the 26th of
... Although pursers are forbidden to procure such stores or supplies on ..."
7. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"... and remains of provisions and stores ; and allowing the pursers to supply the
ships' companies with tobacco, not exceeding two pounds per man a month. ..."
8. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1907)
"... when time shall require : and this order to be seene and kept every voyage
orderly, by the pursers of the companies owne ship, in any wise. ..."
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