 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1874 - 1182 pages
...stocks. The first issues of these notes bore the following legend upon their backs: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for Un itcd States л-ir per cent, twenty ytari bonds, redeemable at the pleasure... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 298 pages
...not exceeding twenty-five cents, in any one payment. " Greenbacks " are legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt. Name of States. g§ ' • Judgmt'B. Name of States. Open account. | Judgm'ts. °i i g Yrs. 3 Yra. 6... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 300 pages
...sums not exceeding twenty-five cents, in any one payment. " Greenbacks" are legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt. Open account. Judgmt'B. Open account. 00 Name of States. 1 ft Name of States. I K *? Yrs. 3 Yrs. 6... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1875 - 582 pages
...notes commonly called greenbacks are promissory notes not on interest. '-'". They were made a legal tender for all debts public and private except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. (3.) Bank-bills. Bank-bills are a form of promissory notes not on interest, and thus differ from the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 858 pages
...the 1st of July, 1863. As at first issued there was this indorsement upon them: This note is a legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for United States six per cent, twenty year bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1875 - 290 pages
...not exceeding twenty-five cents, in any one payment. " Greenbacks " are legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt. Open account. JudgmtV. Open account. Judgm'ts. Name of States. I 1 Name of States. I o to Trs. 3 Trs.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 846 pages
...creenbacks and imparting to them the qualities of money and making them a legal tender for all debts publie and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, its constitutionality was questioned all over the country. It was regarded and treated as a war measure... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Currency question - 1876 - 172 pages
...on the face of it for his reason for taking it; he looked on the back. It said, "This note \sa legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." That is why he took it. He took it because, if he owed his neighbor, his neighbor must take it from... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Banks and banking - 1876 - 86 pages
...back of the notes issued under these two acts was printed the following words : "This note is a legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for U. 8. six per cent, lands redeemable at the pleasure of the United States,... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1876 - 302 pages
...not exceeding twenty-five cents, in any one payment. " Greenbacks " are legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt. Open account. Judgmt's. Bg 1 fc Judgm'tB.. Name of States. R Name of States. SS 03 a Yrs. 3 Yrs. 6... | |
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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... 
