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Page xi
... authorized by the acts of July 14 , 1870 , and January 20 , 1871 , the contracting parties to have the exclusive right to subscribe for the remainder , namely , $ 260,000,000 , or any por- tion thereof , of the said four and one - half ...
... authorized by the acts of July 14 , 1870 , and January 20 , 1871 , the contracting parties to have the exclusive right to subscribe for the remainder , namely , $ 260,000,000 , or any por- tion thereof , of the said four and one - half ...
Page xvi
... authorized , if in his judgment deemed necessary to carry the act into effect , to accumulate an amount of gold equal to the entire amount of the legal - tenders outstanding on that day ; but this , if it were not morally impossible ...
... authorized , if in his judgment deemed necessary to carry the act into effect , to accumulate an amount of gold equal to the entire amount of the legal - tenders outstanding on that day ; but this , if it were not morally impossible ...
Page xviii
... made , and the position which it would occupy with reference to unexpired coin obligations , should its coinage with unlimited tender be again authorized , has been the subject XVIII REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY .
... made , and the position which it would occupy with reference to unexpired coin obligations , should its coinage with unlimited tender be again authorized , has been the subject XVIII REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY .
Page xx
... authorized to receive deposits of gold coin and bullion , and to issue certificates therefor redeemable in gold coin , thus indicating that its obligations called for payment in gold and not in silver . This provision , it will be seen ...
... authorized to receive deposits of gold coin and bullion , and to issue certificates therefor redeemable in gold coin , thus indicating that its obligations called for payment in gold and not in silver . This provision , it will be seen ...
Page xxi
... authorized by law . CURRENCY REDEMPTION . Owing to the exhaustion of the appropriation for transportation of United States notes and securities , the express charges on legal - tender and fractional notes , sent to this Department for ...
... authorized by law . CURRENCY REDEMPTION . Owing to the exhaustion of the appropriation for transportation of United States notes and securities , the express charges on legal - tender and fractional notes , sent to this Department for ...
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Page xii - And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.
Page 132 - An act to repeal the State tax on real and personal property, and to continue and extend the improvements of the State by railroads and canals, and to charter a State Bank, to be called the United States Bank.
Page 195 - The taking, receiving, reserving or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Page xii - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Page xxii - That any association organized under this act, or any of the acts of which this is an amendment, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes, in whole or in part, may, upon the deposit of lawful money with the Treasurer of the United States in sums of not less than nine thousand dollars, take up the bonds which said association has on deposit with the Treasurer for the security of such circulating...
Page 307 - That the proportional value of gold to silver in all coins which shall by law be current as money within the United States, shall be as fifteen to one, according to quantity in weight, of pure gold or pure silver; that is to say, every fifteen pounds weight of pure silver shall be of equal value in all payments, with one pound weight of pure gold, and so in proportion as to any greater or less quantities of the respective metals.
Page 466 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Ноше of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the...
Page 322 - 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 immediately after the passage of this Act and thereafter quarterly on the first day of January, April, July and October in each year.
Page ix - 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.
Page 304 - The next inquiry towards a right determination of what ought to be the future money unit of the United States, turns upon these questions : Whether it ought to be peculiarly attached to either of the metals, in preference to the other, or not ; and, if to either, to which of them.