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Page xi
... five - twenty bonds , matured United States coin coupons received in payment for the four and one - half per cent . bonds issued , or which may be issued , to the contractors ; and the Secretary agreed to issue notices for the ...
... five - twenty bonds , matured United States coin coupons received in payment for the four and one - half per cent . bonds issued , or which may be issued , to the contractors ; and the Secretary agreed to issue notices for the ...
Page xx
... five dollars . By force of the laws of trade , quite inde- pendent of those of Congress , the legal - tender silver ... five - twenty six per cent . bonds , then selling at eighty - eight cents on the dollar , soon arose to par in gold ...
... five dollars . By force of the laws of trade , quite inde- pendent of those of Congress , the legal - tender silver ... five - twenty six per cent . bonds , then selling at eighty - eight cents on the dollar , soon arose to par in gold ...
Page xxiii
... five banks organized during that period , with an aggregate capital of $ 14,035,000 . The remaining circulation , amounting to $ 10,767,105 , was issued to banks previously organized . The amount of legal - tender notes retired under ...
... five banks organized during that period , with an aggregate capital of $ 14,035,000 . The remaining circulation , amounting to $ 10,767,105 , was issued to banks previously organized . The amount of legal - tender notes retired under ...
Page xxvi
... five per cent . for commissions . Ever since the beginning of the Government , until the revision of the statutes , the law , while fixing a maximum rate , has left the com- pensation of inspectors of the customs discretionary with the ...
... five per cent . for commissions . Ever since the beginning of the Government , until the revision of the statutes , the law , while fixing a maximum rate , has left the com- pensation of inspectors of the customs discretionary with the ...
Page xxxiii
... five houses of refuge have been put up on the coast of Florida , and are now in process of equipment . In addition there has been constructed a new life - saving station , designed to take the place of the present one at Cape May , New ...
... five houses of refuge have been put up on the coast of Florida , and are now in process of equipment . In addition there has been constructed a new life - saving station , designed to take the place of the present one at Cape May , New ...
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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.