The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 48William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1863 - Commerce |
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... dollars daily , made huge drafts upon the Treasury , and Congress saw that the urgent necessities of the government could not be supplied by the tardy action of banks , nor depend wholly on the sale of the bonds of the government . A ...
... dollars daily , made huge drafts upon the Treasury , and Congress saw that the urgent necessities of the government could not be supplied by the tardy action of banks , nor depend wholly on the sale of the bonds of the government . A ...
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... dollars . The hindrances to the business of the country from the difficulty in the detection of the multitude of fraudulent bank notes of itself is a sufficient reason for a change in the present system . The people who might soon learn ...
... dollars . The hindrances to the business of the country from the difficulty in the detection of the multitude of fraudulent bank notes of itself is a sufficient reason for a change in the present system . The people who might soon learn ...
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... dollar notes are each portraits similar in size and appearance , and the vignette of the two and the one hundred is the American eagle . The vignette of the two and the fifty is the same por- trait of ALEXANDER HAMILTON , and the ...
... dollar notes are each portraits similar in size and appearance , and the vignette of the two and the one hundred is the American eagle . The vignette of the two and the fifty is the same por- trait of ALEXANDER HAMILTON , and the ...
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... dollars , and hun- dreds of other devices , may be so designed as to beautify the national bank note , and at the same time to indicate the denomination . As the eagle is the sobriquet , the nom de plume of the ten dollar gold coin , an ...
... dollars , and hun- dreds of other devices , may be so designed as to beautify the national bank note , and at the same time to indicate the denomination . As the eagle is the sobriquet , the nom de plume of the ten dollar gold coin , an ...
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... dollar . The Continen- tal dollar always passed for a dollar for the first issue , until it took one thousand to buy one of gold . So that however great may be its depre- ciation , an intangible standard of value never changes its name ...
... dollar . The Continen- tal dollar always passed for a dollar for the first issue , until it took one thousand to buy one of gold . So that however great may be its depre- ciation , an intangible standard of value never changes its name ...
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Page 329 - ... way liable, to an amount exceeding the amount of its capital stock at such time actually paid in and remaining undiminished by losses or otherwise, except on account of demands of the nature following: First.
Page 332 - ... false entry in any book, report or statement of the association, with intent in either case to injure or defraud the association or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of the association, or any agent appointed...
Page 321 - ... as may be required to supply the associations entitled to receive the same. Such notes shall express upon their face that they are secured by United States bonds, deposited with the Treasurer of the United States, by the written or engraved signatures of the Treasurer and Register, and by the imprint of the seal of the Treasury...
Page 332 - ... who shall have power to make a thorough examination into all the affairs of the association, and, in doing so, to examine any of the officers and agents thereof on oath ; and shall make a full and detailed report of the condition of the association to the Comptroller.
Page 325 - Currency shall give to any such association powers of attorney to receive and appropriate to its own use the interest on the bonds which it has so transferred to the Treasurer; but such powers shall become inoperative whenever such association fails to redeem its circulating notes.
Page 179 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Page 333 - Treasury note, issued as aforesaid, knowing the same to be falsely altered, every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of felony, and, being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced...
Page 458 - ... to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of office of...
Page 333 - ... or cause or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes...
Page 185 - That if any person or persons shall make, sign, or issue, or cause to be made, signed, or issued, any instrument, document, or paper of any kind or description whatsoever, without the same being duly stamped, for denoting the tax hereby imposed thereon, or without having thereupon an adhesive stamp to denote said tax...