Definition of "public treasury" []

• A treasury for government funds (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Muaykib was intendant of the public treasury during the Caliphate of Omar bin al-Khattáb, — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say."
• "Whereas it is represented that the sheriff of Pittsylvania county, for good reasons, desires an extension of the time within which he is required to pay into the public treasury the sum of four thousand dollars, a part of the revenue of said county, for thirty days from the 1st day of April 1861: Therefore,"
• "Zaman continued, Know, O King, that Mu’aykib was intendant of the public treasury during the Caliphate of Omar bin al-Khattab; and it so befel him that he saw Omar’s son and gave him a dirham out of the treasury."