Formerly 2700 retired seamen were boarded within it, and 5000 or 6000 others, called outpensioners, received stipends at various rates out of its funds; but in 1865 an act was passed empowering the Admiralty to grant liberal pensions in lieu of food and lodging to such of the inmates as were willing to quit the hospital, and in 1869 another act was passed making their leaving on these conditions compulsory. [Please select]
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"I've got a search warrant empowering me to search this yacht for you and one Zara Doe and take you ashore." [Please select]
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He gave the man a written paper empowering him to keep possession until his return, and refused to accept of any rent whereat the poor woman thanked him earnestly, with the tears running down her pale cheeks. [Please select]
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This was the first of the series of acts empowering him to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. [Please select]
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The man, the officer said, claimed to have news that meant life or death, and he carried on his person a letter from President Lincoln, empowering him to go where he pleased. [Please select]
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I have concealed upon me a letter from President Lincoln, empowering me to act in such a capacity and to go where I please. [Please select]
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