 | Anthony L. Robertson - 1868 - 778 sider
...States notes. &c. passed February 25, 1862, (statutes at large, p. 345,) provides that such notes " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment...debts, public and private, within the United States ;" and the exercise of such right is within the legitimate powers of the general government of the... | |
 | 1868 - 490 sider
...ambiguity of the acts of February and July, 1863, by which greenbacks are made "a lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private,...United States, except duties on imports and interest upon bonds." By a perversion of the plain meaning of this statute these men, after making contracts... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 sider
...payment of taxes, interest, duties, debts and demands due to the United States, and declaring them to be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all...debts, public and private, within the United States. It is the question of power that we inquire about, and being of the opinion that the provisions in... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1868 - 144 sider
...bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender iu payment of all debts, public and private, within the...except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. Act Limiting the Amount of " Greenbacks." June 30, 1864. — An act to provide ways and means for the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1868 - 928 sider
...which shall be paid in coin, and shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all dtbts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." This act docs not rest the value of these notes solely upon the clauses making them a legal tender,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1868 - 764 sider
...1862, Congress declared by law that treasury notes without interest, authorized by that act, should be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States. An annual remittance of $30,000, less stipulated expenses, accrues to claimants under the convention... | |
 | 1868 - 424 sider
...voted to make the $150,000,000 of notes, authorized to be issued, ''lawful money, and a legal-tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States. Mr. Colfax appeared to have a weakness for avoiding to vote on a great many of the questions, financial... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - 1869 - 268 sider
...owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States; and shall also be lawful money, and a legal tender...debts, public and private, within the United States, and shall be exchangeable in sums not less than one hundred dollars, at any time, at their par value,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1869 - 144 sider
...except interest on 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,...except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." The second act contains a provision nearly in the same words with that just recited, and under these... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - 1869 - 680 sider
...of such denominations, not less than one dollar, as he may prescribe ; which notes so issued shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all...public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. And any of the said notes, when returned to... | |
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... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. 
