 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 834 pages
...copper, »r of copper and silver; but the silver shall in no caso exceed one-tenth of the whole alloy. The gold coins of the United States shall be a one-dollar...the standard weight of twenty-five and eight-tenths рташ, shall bo the unit of value; a quarter-eagle, or two-and-a-half dollar piece; a three-dolhr... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1877 - 556 pages
...export. Section 14, Revised Laws, relative to mints and assay offices, says, <i that the gold coin of the United States shall be a one-dollar piece, which at the standard weight of li5 8-10 grains shall be л unit of value ; a qnarter-eagle, or two-and-a-half dollar piece; a three-dollar... | |
 | George Beecroft - 1877 - 516 pages
...may prescribe for the protection of the Government against fraudulent abrasion or other practice*. The Gold Coins of the United States shall be a One-Dollar Piece, which, at gec 35H. the Standard Weight of 25 and 8-10tht grains, shall I e the Unit of Value; ar,o]d Coini of... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - 1885 - 326 pages
...amending the Laws relative to the Mints, Assay-offices, and Coinage of the United States. SEO. 14. That the gold coins of the United States shall be...piece, which, at the standard weight of twenty-five and eight tenths grains, shall be the unit of value; a quarter-eagle, or two-and-ahalf-dollar piece; a... | |
 | 1886 - 542 pages
...function of a unit of value." The law of February 12, 1873, sec. 14 (RS, 3511), read as follows: "The good coins of the United States shall be a one-dollar piece, which, at the standard weight of twenty five and eight-tenths grains shall be the unit of value. * * *." Thus the good dollar, circulating... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 596 pages
...unit of value. The law of Feb. 12th, 1873, sec. 14 (BS, 3511), reads as follows : — " The gold coin of the United States shall be a one-dollar piece, which at the standard value of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains shall be the unit of value. . . ." Thus the gold dollar,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1887 - 764 pages
...February 12, 1878, which provides as follows: SECTION 3,511. The gold coin« of the United States »hall be a one-dollar piece, which, at the standard weight of twenty-five and c-ijilit tenths grains, shall be the unit of value ; a quarter-eagle, or two-and-ahalf-dollar piece;... | |
 | Henry Carey Baird - 1890 - 542 pages
...leave no ground for doubt, no basis for discussion or dispute. The act of February 22, 1873, provides that "the gold coins of the United States shall be...piece, which at the standard weight of twenty-five aud eight-tenth grains shall be the unit of value," etc., and this was reenacted in the same words... | |
 | National Executive Silver Committee - Bland-Allison act of 1878 - 1890 - 170 pages
...it will be seen that section 14 of the act as it passed the House contained the insidious provision, "That the gold coins of the United States shall be...one-dollar piece, which, at the standard weight of 25.8 grains, shall be the unit of value." While in all laws before, the unit, as shown in the foregoing... | |
 | United States - Banking law - 1891 - 332 pages
...copper and silver ; but the silver shall in no case exceed one tenth of the whole alloy. . SEC. 14. That the gold coins of the United States shall be...one-dollar piece, which, at the standard weight of twenty- / five and eight-tenths grains, shall be the unit of value ; aj,^~t> quarter-eagle, or two-and-a-half... | |
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SEC. 14. That the gold coins of the United States shall be a onedollar piece, which, at the standard weight of twenty-five and eight-tenth grains, shall be the unit of value... 
