A History of Currency in the United StatesMacmillan Company, 1915 - 552 páginas |
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... Increased Circulation . Knox's Reports . Bank Supervision . Green- backers oppose Banks . Interest Rates . Silver Certificate Issues and Con- traction of Bank - notes . " Lawful Money " interpreted . Act extending Bank Charters ...
... Increased Circulation . Knox's Reports . Bank Supervision . Green- backers oppose Banks . Interest Rates . Silver Certificate Issues and Con- traction of Bank - notes . " Lawful Money " interpreted . Act extending Bank Charters ...
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... increased to such an extent that the government offered a reward of £ 500 for the detection of the guilty ones.2 In 1775 an issue was authorized to build a jail , known as Wal- nut Street Prison . Here Americans captured by the British ...
... increased to such an extent that the government offered a reward of £ 500 for the detection of the guilty ones.2 In 1775 an issue was authorized to build a jail , known as Wal- nut Street Prison . Here Americans captured by the British ...
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... increased with each subsequent issue ; in 1738 the proportion of bills was 28- 29 to the ounce and in 1748 37-38-40 to the ounce . Each issue was separately valued and the growing depreciation of each subsequent issue was at the time ...
... increased with each subsequent issue ; in 1738 the proportion of bills was 28- 29 to the ounce and in 1748 37-38-40 to the ounce . Each issue was separately valued and the growing depreciation of each subsequent issue was at the time ...
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... increased , thus accounting for the fall in the market price of silver as indicated in the table of ratios . The production of precious metals in the United States prior to 1800 was insignificant in amount . CHAPTER V COINAGE SYSTEM ...
... increased , thus accounting for the fall in the market price of silver as indicated in the table of ratios . The production of precious metals in the United States prior to 1800 was insignificant in amount . CHAPTER V COINAGE SYSTEM ...
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... increased to make it exactly .900 . The eagle thus weighed 258 grains , of which 232.2 grains were pure gold . The ratio became 15.988 to 1 , the same as it is to - day . The differ- ence is so slight that the custom has become ...
... increased to make it exactly .900 . The eagle thus weighed 258 grains , of which 232.2 grains were pure gold . The ratio became 15.988 to 1 , the same as it is to - day . The differ- ence is so slight that the custom has become ...
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Página 28 - ... 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.
Página 80 - ... for carrying them into execution. The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory...
Página 529 - Third. Bills of exchange or drafts drawn against money actually on deposit to the credit of the association, or due thereto. Fourth. Liabilities to the stockholders of the association for dividends and reserve profits.
Página 81 - ... would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone, without which the power given would be nugatory, would have been to deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of...
Página 80 - Although, among the enumerated powers of government, we do not find the word " bank " or " incorporation," we find the great powers to lay and collect taxes; to borrow money ; to regulate commerce ; to declare and conduct a war, and to raise and support armies and navies. The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation, are intrusted to its government.
Página 544 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this Act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Página 80 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Página 533 - In order to furnish suitable notes for circulation as Federal Reserve notes, the Comptroller of the Currency shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury...
Página 24 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers...
Página 541 - The shareholders of every national banking association shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...