...notes so issued shall be lawful money and a legal tender, like the similar notes heretofore authorized, in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except for "duties on imports and interest on the public debt; and the notes so issued shall be part of the...

...Congress issued $150,000,000 of paper money known (because of the color) as "greenbacks", which were made "a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States." A woman who had before the passage of this Act become bound to pay a stated number of dollars in what...

...and fifty million dollars of these notes were issued. They were declared by the law issuing them to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debts." After the Civil War the question...

...sec. 3 ; 12 Stat. 709, 710. These sections provided, inter alia, that United States notes should be "a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States", with certain specified exceptions. The payee of a promissory note made before, but falling due after...

...of ' every kind due to the United States, except duties on imports, ' and of all claims and demands of every kind whatsoever, except ' for interest upon...bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin" and should " also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment ' of all debts, public and private, within...

...the legal tender act of congress of 1862 (RS, sec. 3588) it is provided: "United States notes shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all...public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on public debt." Notwithstanding the fact that this statute contained...

...every kind due to the United States, except duties on imports, and of all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except...and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in Eayment of all debts, public and private, within the United tates, except duties on imports and interest...

...Congress in the Legal Tender Acts and in subsequent legislation. The Legal Tender Acts made greenbacks "legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest" "upon bonds and notes which shall be paid in coin." (Italics ours;...

...1862, llth of February, 1863, and 3d of March, 1863, declared that the notes issued thereunder should be " lawful money and a legal tender in payment of...within the United States, except duties on imports." Were these Acts constitutional ? Some sharp preliminary skirmishing had taken place in the cases of...

...enactments has issued promissory bills under the name of Legal Tender Notes, declaring them lawful money in payment of all debts, public and private, within...United States, except duties on imports and interest on the Public Debt. It was an act 01 wise and urgent necessity on the part of the Government, providing,...