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Página 514
... payment a sum nominally equal in United States notes . But the note had been executed before the passage of the act , and the plaintiff insisted on his right , under the Con- stitution to be paid the amount due in gold and silver . And ...
... payment a sum nominally equal in United States notes . But the note had been executed before the passage of the act , and the plaintiff insisted on his right , under the Con- stitution to be paid the amount due in gold and silver . And ...
Página 515
... payment of debts . We must inquire then whether this can be done in the exercise of an implied power . standard of value by which all other values may be measured , or , in other words , to determine what shall be lawful money and a ...
... payment of debts . We must inquire then whether this can be done in the exercise of an implied power . standard of value by which all other values may be measured , or , in other words , to determine what shall be lawful money and a ...
Página 516
... payment of ex- isting debts ; therefore Congress may make such notes a legal tender . It is difficult to say to what express power the authority to make notes a legal tender in pay- ment of pre - existing debts may not be upheld as ...
... payment of ex- isting debts ; therefore Congress may make such notes a legal tender . It is difficult to say to what express power the authority to make notes a legal tender in pay- ment of pre - existing debts may not be upheld as ...
Página 517
... payment of pre - existing debts . But there is another view which seems to us These facts certainly are not without ... pay - of credit a legal tender , to the extent indicated , ments is claimed under the Constitution . Now , is ...
... payment of pre - existing debts . But there is another view which seems to us These facts certainly are not without ... pay - of credit a legal tender , to the extent indicated , ments is claimed under the Constitution . Now , is ...
Página 518
... payment of money . And we have already seen that contracts in the United States , prior to the act under consideration , for the payment of money , were contracts to pay the sums specified in gold and silver coin . And it is beyond ...
... payment of money . And we have already seen that contracts in the United States , prior to the act under consideration , for the payment of money , were contracts to pay the sums specified in gold and silver coin . And it is beyond ...
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Página 564 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes.
Página 622 - No county, city, township school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Página 599 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Página 554 - That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Página 590 - ... to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States stocks, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Página 554 - All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue. be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Página 554 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 588 - States, shall (except to the extent permitted by rules and regulations prescribed by the Comptroller of the Currency, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury) be subject under this section to a limitation of 15 per centum of such capital and surplus in addition to such 10 per centum of such capital and surplus.
Página 548 - ... full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 520 - To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future time execute its powers 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.