| North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...1&63, and July 11, 1863, provided for the issuing of Treasury notes, and declared that the same should be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, except in certain specified cases. The constitutionality of this legislation came up for... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 806 pages
...declares that the treasury-notes issued under that act shall " be lawful money, and a legal-tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, within the...United States, except duties on imports and interest" due the United States. — 2 Brightly's Digest, 108. The contract in this case, made since the adoption... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...notes of denominations not less than five dollars each, not bearing interest, and creating tho same a legal tender in payment of all debts public and...within the United States, except duties on imports, and payments by the government of interest on bonds and notes, which was required to be paid in coin. This... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...the receipts from customs being devoted to this purpose ; and these notes were to be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, with the exceptions above mentioned, and they were to be received at par in exchange for Government... | |
| William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1862 - 618 pages
...kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, whichrshall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all...except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. And any holders of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than $50, or some multiple... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1862 - 896 pages
...States to individuals, corporations, and associations, within the United States, and shall also be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, and shall be exchangeable at any time at their par value, the same as coin, at the Treasury of the... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 758 pages
...for such period as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and words importing that the note is a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and...United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is receivable for any bonds of the United States which the Secretary of the... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...United States, $150,000,000 of United States notes, not bearing interest, which notes so issued should be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Thus, on the 3d of March, 1863, by the concurrent... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1863 - 606 pages
...compulsory legal tender in payment of public and private debts. The provision of the statute is, that they " shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private." Most clearly they are not money. Upon their face they are mere promises to pay money. Each of these... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...compulsory legal tender in payment of public and private debts. The provision of the statute is, that they " shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private." Most clearly they are not money. •Upon their face they are mere promises to pay money. Each of these... | |
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