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Definition of Ninetieths
1. ninetieth [n] - See also: ninetieth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninetieths
Literary usage of Ninetieths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journals of the Continental Congress by United States Continental Congress, United States, Library of Congress Manuscript Division (1912)
"Ordered, That the sum of two hundred and twenty-four dollars, sixty-three ninetieths
and six-eighths specie value, being due to certain claimants for ..."
2. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1839)
"... as payment for the aforesaid second requisition ; and likewise of sixty-four
thousand and seventy-nine thirty-eight ninetieths as a partial payment upon ..."
3. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia by Georgia General Assembly (1911)
"Upon every gallon of Madeira Wine twelve ninetieths of a dollar. ... Upon every
pound of common bohea tea six ninetieths of a dollar. ..."
4. The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 by Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders, Jonathan Willis Martin, Hampton Lawrence Carson (1906)
"... island or plantation not within [any of] the United States; upon all rum of
Jamaica proof, per gallon, four ninetieths of a dollar; upon all other ..."
5. Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut in America by Connecticut (1786)
"... liland or Plantation j^3" Ш not within any of the United States ; upon all
Rum of Jamaica Proof per Gal- , Ion, four ninetieths of a Dollar; ..."
6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1893)
"... then the De Saussure mortgage would be a valid lien on forty-one ninetieths
of the 823 acres, and the Witte mortgage would be a valid lien on forty-one ..."
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