A History of Currency in the United StatesMacmillan Company, 1915 - 552 páginas |
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... purchase goods did not have for exchange anything which the vendor desired ; this , and the difficulty of making change , in- spired the colonial governments to provide a currency and to give it a fixed value in trade and taxes . At ...
... purchase goods did not have for exchange anything which the vendor desired ; this , and the difficulty of making change , in- spired the colonial governments to provide a currency and to give it a fixed value in trade and taxes . At ...
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... Purchases stopped . Sales of Bonds to obtain Gold . " Coining the Seigniorage . " Asset Bank Currency advocated . Morgan Bond Syndicate . Efforts to retire Legal Tender Notes . Bryan and Free Coinage . Sound Money League . McKinley's ...
... Purchases stopped . Sales of Bonds to obtain Gold . " Coining the Seigniorage . " Asset Bank Currency advocated . Morgan Bond Syndicate . Efforts to retire Legal Tender Notes . Bryan and Free Coinage . Sound Money League . McKinley's ...
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... purchases the tobacco for exporta- tion . " These receipts were not made to circulate as money by law , but having an intrinsic value , they did perform the office of currency from an early date almost to the nineteenth cen- tury . 2 ...
... purchases the tobacco for exporta- tion . " These receipts were not made to circulate as money by law , but having an intrinsic value , they did perform the office of currency from an early date almost to the nineteenth cen- tury . 2 ...
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... purchase territory from the government of Mexico , proposed to exclude slavery and involuntary servitude forever from all territory so acquired . It was adopted by the House , but later reconsidered and defeated . This episode marked ...
... purchase territory from the government of Mexico , proposed to exclude slavery and involuntary servitude forever from all territory so acquired . It was adopted by the House , but later reconsidered and defeated . This episode marked ...
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... purchase of 150 tons of copper for the coinage of cents and half cents , and that when $ 50,000 of these pieces had been struck , public notice be given that after six months from that date no other copper pieces were to pass current ...
... purchase of 150 tons of copper for the coinage of cents and half cents , and that when $ 50,000 of these pieces had been struck , public notice be given that after six months from that date no other copper pieces were to pass current ...
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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...