| John Sherman - Currency question - 1879 - 664 pages
...exercised July 11, 1862, and arch 3, 1863. The several acts of these dates declared United States notes to be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt... | |
| Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...Congress issued $150,000,000 of paper money known (because of the color) as "greenbacks", which were made "a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States." A woman who had before the passage of this Act become bound to pay a stated number of dollars in what... | |
| Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...Congress issued $150,000,000 of paper money known (because of the color) as "greenbacks", which were made "a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States." A woman who had before the passage of this Act become bound to pay a stated number of dollars in what... | |
| James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1924 - 578 pages
...and fifty million dollars of these notes were issued. They were declared by the law issuing them to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debts." After the Civil War the question... | |
| Charles Warren - Constitutional history - 1925 - 328 pages
...sec. 3 ; 12 Stat. 709, 710. These sections provided, inter alia, that United States notes should be "a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States", with certain specified exceptions. The payee of a promissory note made before, but falling due after... | |
| Law - 1925 - 1150 pages
...their authority should be lawful money and that such money should be a legal tender for the payment of debts public and private within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States.1 These acts were, in the face of strong arguments to the... | |
| New York Chamber of Commerce - Commerce - 1876 - 516 pages
...kind whatsoever, except ' for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin" and should " also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment...except ' duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." This Act also authorized the issue of bonds of the United States for $500,000,000, redeemable at their... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1140 pages
...due to or by the United •Head notes by Mr. Justice GRAT. v. GKEEHMAN. States, and were declared to be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...debts, public and private, within the United States. Cong. Globe, 1861-2, part l,p. 181 ; Spauldins's Financial History of the War, 14. January 22, 1862,... | |
| Henry Francis Grady - Finance - 1927 - 336 pages
...Financial History of the United States, p. 278 et seq. $150,000,000 of notes, which were declared to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of...United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," which were expressly made payable in coin. The notes were also exchangeable for... | |
| Joseph Waldo Ellison - California - 1927 - 276 pages
...for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private,...United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.1 The purpose of making the notes legal tender was to insure their negotiability. At first... | |
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