| Boyd Crumrine - 1872 - 636 páginas
...Act of Congress of the 25th February, 1862, provides that the treasury notes to he issued under it " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest, as aforesaid." The question is whether the law, impressing upon... | |
| Charles A. Mann - 1872 - 398 páginas
...The legal-tender act, by its terms, expressly applies to all claims against the United States, and to all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. The same rule, in reference to selecting the money in which the debt is to be paid,... | |
| William Alfred BROWNE - 1872 - 318 páginas
...or, as they were afterwards called, " greenbacks," and the Act declared that such notes " shall bo lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest " upon the bonda and notes... | |
| 1872 - 854 páginas
...passed, and still remain in force. As the Act of 1862 declares that the notes of the United States shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of debts, and this act has been sustained by the recent decision of this court as valid and constitutional,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1872 - 534 páginas
...and demands of every description, and of all claims and demands against the United States of even- kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be pnid in coin, ami shrdl also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and... | |
| William Adams Richardson - 1873 - 208 páginas
...States notes, provided that they should be receivable in payment of "all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever except...bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin;" and that they should be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 494 páginas
...of the treasury, and the further provision was that the notes so issued should be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private,...United States, except duties on imports and interest upon bonds and notes of the United States, which the act provides " shall be paid in coin." Subsequent... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 556 páginas
...of the treasury, and the further provision was that the notes so issued should be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private,...United States, except duties on imports, and interest upon bonds and notes of the United States, which the act provides "shall be paid in coin." Subsequent... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 540 páginas
...all public dues and demands of everv description, and of all claims and demands against the I'nited States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest...and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall nlxo be fawful money and a legal tender inpayment of nil debts, public and private, within the United... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1872
...associations within the United States," and to insert in lieu thereof: " and of all claims and demands against the United States of every kind whatsoever, except...upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin," &c. Mr. STEVENS proposed to amend this Senate amendment by inserting after the word " notes" the words... | |
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