| Francis Newton Thorpe - United States - 1894 - 382 pages
...promises to pay made by the Federal Government. These notes are a legal tender f at their face value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 234. National Bank-Notes. — The notes printed by the Government and issued by the national... | |
| Currency question - 1895 - 548 pages
...outstanding — the remnant of the forced paper currency of the late Civil War. These notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Since 1879 they have been redeemable in "coin " (gold) ; and when redeemed are reissued.... | |
| Banks and banking - 1895 - 558 pages
...outstanding — the remnant of the forced paper currency of the late Civil War. These notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private; except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Since 1879 they have been redeemable in "coin " (gold) ; and when redeemed are reissued.... | |
| Edward Carroll - Banking law - 1895 - 332 pages
...issued during the late Civil War, of which a fixed amount, $346,681,006, is outstanding. They are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, but being redeemable upon demand in coin, the latter limitation of their legaltender quality... | |
| Armistead Churchill Gordon - Currency question - 1895 - 256 pages
...is an inconvertible paper currency,1 reciting in terms that it is a legal tender at its face value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt ; and is made payable to the bearer, but not on demand, nor at any fixed time. It is a... | |
| Charles Mitchell Harvey - Campaign literature - 1896 - 322 pages
...be in lieu of the demand notes of that amount created by the law of July 17, 1861, the whole to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the national debt, both of which obligations were to be payable in coin. The notes, it was provided, could... | |
| George Burnside Waldron - Money - 1896 - 168 pages
...(page 18), was in the law of Feb. 25, 1862, " Wherein it was stipulated that the greenback should be a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, whicn from that time forward should be paid in coin." This " created a demand for gold,"... | |
| F. M. Fogg - Bimetallism - 1896 - 230 pages
...paper. The greenbacks when first issued bore this clause of the law upon their backs: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is receivable in payment of all loans made to the United States." The last clause... | |
| Henry Varnum Poor - Currency question - 1896 - 218 pages
...issued bearing date March 1o, 1862, and on the back of them was printed these words: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for United States six per cent. bonds, redeemable at the pleasure... | |
| Henry V. Poor - 1898 - 360 pages
...issued bearing date March 1o, 1862, and on the back of them was printed these words: " This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for United States six per cent- bonds, redeemable at the pleasure... | |
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