Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 - Finance, Public |
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Page viii
... paid , and accrued interest to date , " which , in the monthly debt state- ment , is treated as a liability of the Government , precisely as is the principal of the debt , but which is not so considered in the statement of receipts and ...
... paid , and accrued interest to date , " which , in the monthly debt state- ment , is treated as a liability of the Government , precisely as is the principal of the debt , but which is not so considered in the statement of receipts and ...
Page ix
... paid on account of judgments of the Court of Alabama Claims in excess of the amount received during that quarter from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds held in trust for that purpose , and which was returned to the Treasury in the ...
... paid on account of judgments of the Court of Alabama Claims in excess of the amount received during that quarter from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds held in trust for that purpose , and which was returned to the Treasury in the ...
Page xiii
... paid - that the day of specie payments is never to return . And it matters not in what form they are issued . Through whatever changes they pass , their ultimate destiny is to be paid . " Dealing with this question , Senator Sherman ...
... paid - that the day of specie payments is never to return . And it matters not in what form they are issued . Through whatever changes they pass , their ultimate destiny is to be paid . " Dealing with this question , Senator Sherman ...
Page xix
... paid in gold , that the customs receipts had been set apart to this end , and that these were paid in gold , and that the silver dollar had , as money of payment , theretofore gone into general disuse , especially in all large transac ...
... paid in gold , that the customs receipts had been set apart to this end , and that these were paid in gold , and that the silver dollar had , as money of payment , theretofore gone into general disuse , especially in all large transac ...
Page xxi
... paid has a practical value in the proba- ble reduction of the public debt equal to one - fourth of the amount of the annual interest thereon . It is respectfully submitted that the coin payment to which the faith of the nation was ...
... paid has a practical value in the proba- ble reduction of the public debt equal to one - fourth of the amount of the annual interest thereon . It is respectfully submitted that the coin payment to which the faith of the nation was ...
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Page 128 - 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 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 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 631 - ... the executive branch of the government, and be subject to revision only by Congress or the proper courts. The head of the proper department, before signing a warrant for any balance certified to him by a Comptroller, may, however, submit to such Comptroller any facts in his judgment affecting the correctness of such balance, but the decision of the Comptroller thereon shall be final and conclusive, as hereinbefore provided.
Page 303 - 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 285 - ... legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one payment.
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 138 - In case of the insolvency of any bank or banking association, the billholders thereof shall be entitled to preference, in payment, over all other creditors of such bank or association.
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 138 - The Legislature shall have no power to pass any act granting any special charter for banking purposes; but corporations or associations may be formed for such purposes under general laws.