The Financial Register of the United States, Volum 2Condy Raguet Wirtz & Tatem, 1838 |
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Side 217 - Parliament, and that it shall not be lawful for any body politic or corporate whatsoever created or to be created, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership exceeding the number of six persons in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable on demand or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Side 124 - KNOW not a more rash or unphilosophical conduct of the understanding, than to reject the substance of a story, by reason of some diversity in the circumstances with which it is related. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. This is what the daily experience of courts of justice teaches. When accounts of a transaction come from the mouths of different witnesses, it is seldom that it is not possible to pick out apparent or real inconsistencies between...
Side 289 - States, to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or treasury notes, or notes of the bank of the United States...
Side 331 - I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States: So help me God.
Side 330 - ... and shall hold office for the term of three years and until their successors are appointed and qualified.
Side 371 - ... in circulation any bill, note, check, draft, or other security purporting to have been made by any such corporation whose charter has expired, or by any officer thereof, or purporting to have been made under authority...
Side 295 - WRIGHT. lected by virtue of this act shall be received in gold and silver coin only, at the following rates, that is to say: the gold coins of France, England, Spain and Portugal, and all other gold coins of equal fineness, at eighty-nine cents for every pennyweight ; the Mexican dollar at one hundred cents ; the crown of France at one dollar and eleven cents ; the crown of England at one dollar and eleven cents ; and all silver coins of equal fineness at one dollar and eleven cents per ounce.
Side 230 - England,) or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their Bills or Notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof.
Side 232 - REGISTER. names, title, or firm, of such intended or existing corporation or copartnership, and also the names and places of abode of all the members of such corporation, or of all the partners concerned or engaged in such copartnership, as the same respectively shall appear on the books of such corporation or copartnership...
Side 230 - All drafts or orders for the payment of any sum of money to the bearer on demand, and drawn upon any banker or bankers, or any person or persons acting as a banker...