 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 páginas
...25th February, 1862. That act declared, in terms, that the notes issued should be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on United States securities. If Congresa could authorize the issue of... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - 1869 - 268 páginas
...providing for the issue of treasury notes, contains ie this clause, "and which treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States," and you desire my opinion whether this clause is, or is not, constitutional.... | |
 | 1870 - 780 páginas
...only in coin, is a clear repudiation of the national faith pledged in the act making the greenback a legal tender in payment of " all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," inasmuch as the national debt is a public debt,... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1870 - 896 páginas
...little more than half its value as expressed upon its face. The Act of Congress declares the notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest, &c.; but it cannot be said that the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 854 páginas
...authorizing the issue of United States notes, which notes the act declared should be " lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," except duties on imports, and interest 011 the Federal debt. In this state of things, as appeared from a case... | |
 | 1870 - 776 páginas
...only in coin, is a clear repudiation of the national faith pledged in the act making the greenback a legal tender in payment of " all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," inasmuch as the national debt is a public debt,... | |
 | Boyd Crumrine - 1872 - 636 páginas
...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 these... | |
 | William H. Sylvis, James C. Sylvis - 1872 - 470 páginas
...just what it should, just what was proper — issued a paper currency free of interest, and made it a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on public debts. This took the power from the money-shavers, and gave... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 192 páginas
...the act does not lie in these features ; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be ." a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private/' so far as that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 556 páginas
...the act does not lie in these features; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," so far at> that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
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Treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract... 
