... 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. Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 236by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...the United States, afterwards decided to be unconstitutional, authorized the issue of $ 1 5 0,000,000 of United States notes not bearing interest, payable...without such provision. It was thought in February that $150,000,ooo of this currency would be enough, but in June it was evident that this would not be the... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...notes of denominations not less than five dollars each, not bearing interest, and creating tho same a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports, and payments by the government of interest on bonds and notes, which was... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1862 - 896 pages
...States to individuals, corporations, and associations, within the United States, and shall also be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, and shall be exchangeable at any time at their par value, the same as coin, at the Treasury of the... | |
| William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1862 - 618 pages
...for interest upon bonds and notes, whichrshall be paid in coin, and shall also be 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. And any holders of said United States notes depositing... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be 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." The case states that the defendant was indebted... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...$150,000,000 of United States notes, not bearing interest, which notes so issued should be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Thus, on the 3d of March, 1863, by the... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 758 pages
...whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be 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: Provided, That no interest shall be deemed due... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1863 - 606 pages
...treasury notes to the amount of $150,000,000, and declaring that such notes " shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on bonds and notes of the United States," is not in conflict... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 626 pages
...February 25, 1862, which declares that treasury notes issued pursuant to it, shall "be 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." Acts of Cong. 1862, (L. & B.'s ed.) p. 345. If... | |
| Robert John Walker - Finance - 1864 - 414 pages
...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 debts, 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... | |
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