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... Deposits . State Bank Inflation . Distribution of Surplus . Liquidation of the Bank . Massachusetts Banks CHAPTER VI ... Deposit System . Free Banking . Typi- cal State Banks . Repeal of Subtreasury Act . Defeat of Plan for Third Bank of ...
... Deposits . State Bank Inflation . Distribution of Surplus . Liquidation of the Bank . Massachusetts Banks CHAPTER VI ... Deposit System . Free Banking . Typi- cal State Banks . Repeal of Subtreasury Act . Defeat of Plan for Third Bank of ...
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... Deposits PART IV BIBLIOGRAPHY Official and Unofficial Publications on the Subject . Colonial and Continental Period . The Period prior to the Civil War . Bank of the United States . Subtreasury System . Treasury Notes . Period after the ...
... Deposits PART IV BIBLIOGRAPHY Official and Unofficial Publications on the Subject . Colonial and Continental Period . The Period prior to the Civil War . Bank of the United States . Subtreasury System . Treasury Notes . Period after the ...
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... Deposits of gold or silver were to be paid . for , 95 per cent in gold or silver and 5 per cent in copper coin . Only copper The act never became fully operative . coins were actually struck under this law , and these were made ...
... Deposits of gold or silver were to be paid . for , 95 per cent in gold or silver and 5 per cent in copper coin . Only copper The act never became fully operative . coins were actually struck under this law , and these were made ...
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... deposits for coinage into fractional silver pieces for private account was prohibited , but the deposit of gold and silver for casting into bars or ingots of either pure or standard metal at a charge of one - half of one per cent was ...
... deposits for coinage into fractional silver pieces for private account was prohibited , but the deposit of gold and silver for casting into bars or ingots of either pure or standard metal at a charge of one - half of one per cent was ...
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... deposits therein of gold and silver bullion , dust or foreign coin , for manufacture into bars or coin at the will of the depositor and the issue of certificates of deposit for the kind of metal deposited , which certifi- cates were ...
... deposits therein of gold and silver bullion , dust or foreign coin , for manufacture into bars or coin at the will of the depositor and the issue of certificates of deposit for the kind of metal deposited , which certifi- cates were ...
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Page 458 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever : and also to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at their pleasure ; and also to...
Page 68 - ... for carrying them into execution. The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory...
Page 554 - That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated quarterly by the Director of the Mint and be proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
Page 65 - States, namely, that every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Page 505 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 493 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 515 - ... shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 574 - The value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 459 - That in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this Act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved, but...
Page 67 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.