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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... persons exporting merchandise by land convey- ance to Canada to file manifests containing the quantities and values thereof . The value of our exports to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec , during the last fiscal year , as the ...
... persons exporting merchandise by land convey- ance to Canada to file manifests containing the quantities and values thereof . The value of our exports to the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec , during the last fiscal year , as the ...
Page xxxiii
... persons , the effect being to measurably weaken the inducement to excellence in the active officers by blocking their advancement , and to reduce the effi- ciency of the service by keeping young men of ability and energy from the higher ...
... persons , the effect being to measurably weaken the inducement to excellence in the active officers by blocking their advancement , and to reduce the effi- ciency of the service by keeping young men of ability and energy from the higher ...
Page xxxv
... persons who signally endanger their lives in the effort to rescue others , and the second for those who show in similar endeavors a gallantry less hazardous in degree It is suggested that there are instances where , without life being ...
... persons who signally endanger their lives in the effort to rescue others , and the second for those who show in similar endeavors a gallantry less hazardous in degree It is suggested that there are instances where , without life being ...
Page xxxvi
... persons . They will undoubtedly conduce to the welfare of the service , by relieving the tedium and monotony of the watch at these isolated positions , and suitable cases have been prepared for their protection , and also to enable them ...
... persons . They will undoubtedly conduce to the welfare of the service , by relieving the tedium and monotony of the watch at these isolated positions , and suitable cases have been prepared for their protection , and also to enable them ...
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... person or persons who should offer and undertake to complete , provide , and de- liver the same , to the use and upon the credit of the United States , a cer- tain number of vessels , not exceeding twelve above the number already ...
... person or persons who should offer and undertake to complete , provide , and de- liver the same , to the use and upon the credit of the United States , a cer- tain number of vessels , not exceeding twelve above the number already ...
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&c.-Continued 00 1 deputy act of June act of March Amount expended appropriation authorized Balance bonds Cape capital cent circulation clerk coast coinage collector and inspector Congress consul Contingent expenses custom-house December 31 Delaware deposits deputy collector eastern district ended June 30 expenditures fiscal year 1876 fiscal year ended fractional currency fund gold Harbor interest issue January Jersey July Lake Lake Michigan Lake Superior last fiscal late collector legal tender liabilities life-saving stations light-house light-station loan manufactures March 31 Massachusetts Michigan National Bank North Carolina number of lives number of persons October Ohio outstanding Pacific paid payment post-office public moneys Quarter ended re-imbursement receipts receiver of public redeemed redemption Refund of duty repairs Rhode Island River Saint Salaries Schr Secretary Sept September 30 Shoal Stat statement Statutes surfmen Tennessee tion Total amount Total number United United States notes vessels Virginia York
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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.