How this might refill the city's empty treasury was unclear.

He took over default in the public funds, and an empty treasury.

There being no answer but an empty treasury, they were put in irons.

Without such a move, the Government, its treasury empty, would not have been able to import fuel.

They disbanded halfway through the 1872 season "on account of an empty treasury."

Soon the whole east of Britain was theirs and the treasury empty again.

Santa Anna became president for the fifth time, taking over a nation with an empty treasury.

It has a huge budget deficit, enormous public debt, an empty treasury and a high poverty rate.

An empty treasury and two native wars were the reversion which we took over.

There is a guild, if you care to pay the dues, but the treasury's almost always empty.