These charges currently appear on both local bills and the long-distance bills.

But in the future the two will be combined into one charge on the local bill.

It does not however, extend to private or local bills, nor bills extending the length of a parliament beyond five years.

And the companies said those reductions would more than offset the 75- cent increase in local bills.

The local bill has the support of at least 14 council members, but has had trouble attracting broader support.

He takes the money, asking the tourist to wait while he gets the local bills.

Before the budget, because of the problem of trying to find money to cut the local bills, little progress had been made.

In 1851, Ironside seconded a council motion to call a public meeting to decide whether a local bill should be applied for that year.

The bill would let the Council adopt a local bill that approves or rejects the plan.

The Japanese were willing to pay their local bills in either dollars or Yen.