He again emphasized health care as a priority, and said that his government would stop the practice of using public monies for politically motivated polls and advertisements.

However, he was allowed to use monies received from the sale of his golf instructional phonograph records for the establishment of a caddie scholarship fund instituted in his name.

In the three months immediately following the storm, over 37,000 houses were rebuilt or repaired using monies from this fund.

"It'll be on a faster track because we could use private monies for this initial phase."

"They may feel that they can use public monies to go and campaign," Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

It was also built by the City of Chicago using federal monies.

He later pleaded guilty to fraud, having used monies from the fraud to cover his personal expenses.

Howard used monies from the lottery to help win favor with the state legislature.

Charles also agreed to pay a Danegeld to the Viking leader Sigifrid, partly using monies from churches.

Nevertheless an important principle had been established, that clinical autonomy did not mean an automatic right to use public monies without scrutiny or limits.