| Charles K. Backus - 1878 - 80 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas James Norton - 1922 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
| James Albert Woodburn - 1924 - 578 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Warren - 1925 - 328 páginas
...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... | |
| 1925 - 1150 páginas
...their authority should be lawful money and that such money should be a legal tender for the payment of debts public and private within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States.1 These acts were, in the face of strong arguments to the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1140 páginas
...due to or by the United •Head notes by Mr. Justice GRAT. v. GKEEHMAN. States, and were declared to be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...debts, public and private, within the United States. Cong. Globe, 1861-2, part l,p. 181 ; Spauldins's Financial History of the War, 14. January 22, 1862,... | |
| New York Chamber of Commerce - 1876 - 516 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Waldo Ellison - 1927 - 276 páginas
...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...be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on... | |
| Henry Francis Grady - 1927 - 336 páginas
...Financial History of the United States, p. 278 et seq. $150,000,000 of notes, which were declared to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of...United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," which were expressly made payable in coin. The notes were also exchangeable for... | |
| Washington State Bar Association - 1894 - 612 páginas
...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... | |
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