 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1862 - 896 pages
...United States to individuals, corporations, and associations, within the United States, and shall also be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, and shall be exchangeable at any time at their par value, the same as coin,... | |
 | Commerce - 1863 - 498 pages
...amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Any law made by the Congress in the United States, in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." JOHNSON, J. The tender by the defendant, of the legal... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1863 - 606 pages
...amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Any law made by the congress of the United States, in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...objection to the act does not lie in these features; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," so far as that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
 | 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
...25th February, 1862. That 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... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 724 pages
...at the treasury of the United States, and it provides that these notes shall be " lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except," &c. (12 US Stat. at Large, p. 711.) The validity of the act of congress above referred to, is not now... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - Finance - 1869 - 292 pages
...consideration. The bill, after providing for the issue of treasury notes, contains ie this clause, ''and which treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States," and you desire my opinion whether this clause is, or is uot, constitutional.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 780 pages
...only in coin, is a clear 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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 854 pages
...authorizing the issue of United States notes, which notes the act declared should be " lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," except duties on imports, and interest 011 the Federal debt. In this state of things, as appeared from a case... | |
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Treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private... 
