| John Bouvier - 1870 - 900 páginas
...11, p. 163). No foreign coins are now a legal tender. LEOALIS HOMO 25 LEGITIM been issued, which are a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt. (Act of Congress of May 23, 1862.) A postage currency has also been authorized, -which is receivable... | |
| 1870 - 776 páginas
...repudiation of the national faith pledged in the act making the greenback a legal tender in payment of " all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," inasmuch as the national debt is a public debt, secured by the entire property of the nation. We therefore... | |
| 1870 - 780 páginas
...repudiation of the national faith pledged in the act making the greenback a legal tender in payment of " all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," inasmuch as the national debt is a public debt, secured by the entire property of the nation. We therefore... | |
| Calvin Townsend - 1871 - 620 páginas
...known as Treasury Notes, issued by authority of Congress. They are a legal tender at their face-value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. But ordinary bank bills are a good tender in payment of debts, unless they are objected to by the party... | |
| Charles A. Mann - 1872 - 398 páginas
...treasury notes should be a legal tender in payment of all claims against the United States, and of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. They do not cause the principal of the debt to be included among the exceptions. The interest and custom... | |
| William H. Sylvis, James C. Sylvis - 1872 - 470 páginas
...what was proper — issued a paper currency free of interest, and made it a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on public debts. This took the power from the money-shavers, and gave the people and government a currency... | |
| William Adams Richardson - 1873 - 192 páginas
...the words, fc Act of March 3d, 1863," and on the hack, like those of the former issues, the words, "This note is a legal tender for all debts public...duties on imports and interest on the public debt," but omitted the declaration that they were exchangeable for five-twenty bonds. In other respects they... | |
| William Adams Richardson - 1873 - 208 páginas
...March 3d, 1863," and on the back, like those of the former issues, the words, "This note is a.legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," but omitted the declaration that they were exchangeable for five-twenty bonds. In other respects they... | |
| E. G. Folsom - 1873 - 474 páginas
...treasury-notes, being promises of the United States to pay the bearer, are made legal tender at their "face value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." Both of these species of currency — one secured by Government bonds, the other by Governmental pledges... | |
| United States. President - 1873 - 898 páginas
...backs: "This note is a legal tender for ;:11 debts, public and private, except duties on imports aud interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for United States six per cent, ticeniy yearn' bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after five years.'1 These notes,... | |
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