 | 1887 - 764 페이지
...act of February 25, 1862, and subsequent acts. They are by law made a legal tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. By act of January 14, 1875, they have been redeemable in coin since January 1, 1879, at the sub-Treasury... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1887 - 426 페이지
...25th of that year provided for the issue of notes to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States." Great opposition was made to the legal tender feature of the... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1887 - 420 페이지
...25th of that year provided for the issue of notes to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States." Great opposition was made to the legal tender feature of the... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1888 - 532 페이지
...United States will pay " Bearer Five Dollars," and are endorsed, " This note is a legal tender at its face value for all debts, public and private, except...duties on imports, and interest on the public debt." In 1873 gold was declared to be the standard, and specie payments were resumed. A question now arose... | |
 | John Borden - 1889 - 56 페이지
...denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, 810,000. They are lawful money and a legal tender at their face value for all debts public...duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Their present amount was fixed in 1878 at $346,681,016.0(1. One hundred millions of dollars in gold... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1889 - 648 페이지
...sometimes called "greenbacks," are promises to pay made by the Federal Government. These notes are a legal tender * at their face value for all debts public...duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 365. National Bank-notes. — The notes printed by the Government and issued by the national banks... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - 1890 - 630 페이지
...issue of Treasury Notes, commonly called Greenbacks, given by Congress the quality of legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest and principal of the national bonds, was made in April, 1862, and was justified in Congress and out... | |
 | John Borden - 1890 - 154 페이지
...were first authorized by the act of February 25, 1862. They were made lawful money and a legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest upon the public debt. Except for these purposes the greenback dollar furnished the unit of value from... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1891 - 776 페이지
...25th of February, 1862, passed an act which declared that the greenback should be a " legal-tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," which from that time on should be paid in coin. The adoption of that act, known as the " exception-clause... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 548 페이지
...Congress declared an issue of notes then authorized " lawful money and a legal-tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the bonds and [interest-bearing] notes of the United States." This issue was limited to $150,000,ooo, but... | |
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July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public... 
