On Account Of Meaning

(regional, idiomatic) Because.

Example: 1842 August 29, Treaty of Nanking:
  […] and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Government the sum of Three Millions of dollars, on account of debts due to British subjects by some of the said Hong merchants (or Cohong), who have become insolvent, and who owe very large sums of money to subjects of Her Britannic Majesty.

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