If the people are not ready with their money, the little barley, their winter's store, is seized, and they must pay afterwards their usual quotas of money.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
To settle the quotas and proportions in this House is clearly impossible.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke
Payments to Negro soldiers were at first complicated by the ignorance of the recipients, and the fact that the quotas of colored regiments from Northern States were largely filled by recruits from the South, unknown to their fellow soldiers.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois