Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the FinancesTreasury Department, 1868 - Finance, Public |
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... productions 4. Coinage of the Mint and branches from 1793 to 1867 .. 5. Deposits of domestic gold productions , from 1804 to 1867 . 6. Silver coinage from 1853 to 1867 7. Deposits of domestic silver productions from 1841 to 1867 8 ...
... productions 4. Coinage of the Mint and branches from 1793 to 1867 .. 5. Deposits of domestic gold productions , from 1804 to 1867 . 6. Silver coinage from 1853 to 1867 7. Deposits of domestic silver productions from 1841 to 1867 8 ...
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... production . Industry has been steadily returning to the healthy channels from which it was diverted during the war , and although incomes have been small and trade generally inactive , in no other commercial country has there been less ...
... production . Industry has been steadily returning to the healthy channels from which it was diverted during the war , and although incomes have been small and trade generally inactive , in no other commercial country has there been less ...
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... produce the natural results upon industry and production . Thus , coin is not only the regulator of commerce , but the great stimulator of industry and enterprise . The same may be said of a convertible paper currency , which by being ...
... produce the natural results upon industry and production . Thus , coin is not only the regulator of commerce , but the great stimulator of industry and enterprise . The same may be said of a convertible paper currency , which by being ...
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... production of manufactures , together with apprehensions of political troubles , have caused business to be sluggish and unprofitable , and made capitalists cautious and timid . Thus , in those countries , money was never more plen ...
... production of manufactures , together with apprehensions of political troubles , have caused business to be sluggish and unprofitable , and made capitalists cautious and timid . Thus , in those countries , money was never more plen ...
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... sell in , and when it must pay for what it purchases , not in its bonds , but in its own productions . In order that the present tariff should be a revenue tariff , important XVIII REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY .
... sell in , and when it must pay for what it purchases , not in its bonds , but in its own productions . In order that the present tariff should be a revenue tariff , important XVIII REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY .
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Page 62 - all claims and demands whatever by the United States, or against them, and all accounts whatever in which the United States are concerned, either as debtors or creditors, shall be settled and adjusted in the department of the treasury.
Page lii - States, bearing date March 1, 1864, or any subsequent period, redeemable at the pleasure of the government after any period not less than five years, and payable at "any period not more than forty years from date, in coin...
Page 61 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 262 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 14 - ... nor shall the total amount of United States notes, issued or to be issued, ever exceed four hundred millions of dollars, and such additional sum, not exceeding fifty millions of dollars, as may be temporarily required for the redemption of temporary loan...
Page liv - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page xxiii - The millennial days when nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and learn war no more, are yet, according to all existing indications, far in the future.
Page 145 - An Act to Facilitate the Settlement of the Accounts of the Treasurer of the United States, and to Secure Certain Moneys to the People of the United States, or to Persons to Whom They are Due, and Who are Entitled to Receive the Same.
Page 12 - Government has now arrived at that point where it must have funds, and those funds are not to be obtained from ordinary sources, or from any of the expedients to which we have heretofore had recourse, and therefore, this new, anomalous, and remarkable provision must be resorted to in order to enable the Government to pay off the debt that it now owes, and afford circulation which will be .available for -other purposes.
Page 14 - July, 1862, which is to be set apart as a sinking fund, and the interest of which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct.