 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...  The Packard Commercial Arithmetic - Page 62by Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - 1882 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Commerce - 1868 - 490 pages
...Government notes circulating as money, and designed to take the place < f gold and silver by being made " a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports" and interest on the bonded debt. As long as the people prefer an inferior currency — inferior because irredeemable and... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...act declared, in terms, that the notes issued should be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on United States securities. If Congresa could authorize the issue of the notes with the properties imparted... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...State taxation claimed in this case, was of United States notes, declared by act of Congress to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports .and interest on the public debt, while in the other cases it was of certificates of indebtedness. These United States notes, as is sufficiently... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Finance - 1869 - 292 pages
...issued bearing date March 10, 1862, and on the back of them was printed these words: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for U. 8. six per cent. Ixmdi, redeemable at the pleasure of the United Nates after... | |
 | David Nelson Camp - Almanacs, American - 1869 - 844 pages
...Tender act, in authorizing the issue of $150,000,000 Greenbacks, declared that "these notes shall be a legal tender for all debts, public and private," except Duties on Imports and interest on the National Debt. A ready answer to this cavil suggests itself when we consider that nobody supposed or... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1869 - 838 pages
...Tender act, in authorizing the issue of $150,000,000 Greenbacks, declared that " these notes shall be a legal tender for all debts, public and private," except Duties on Imports and interest on the National Debt. A ready answer to this cavil suggests itself when we consider that nobody supposed or... | |
 | 1869 - 1168 pages
...government notes circulating as money, and designed to take the place of gold and silver by being made " a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports" and interest on the bonded debt. As long as the people prefer an inferior currency — inferior because irredeemable and... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
...vol. 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...State taxation claimed in this case, was of United States notes, declared by act of Congress to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt, while in the other cases it was of certificates of indebtedness. These United States notes, as is sufficiently... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 776 pages
...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... | |
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