Stephen Baldwin, Complainant and Appellee, Vs. Fred A. Baker, Defendant and Appellant: Brief for Appellant. Albert B. Hall, Solicitor for Appellant. Fred A. Baker, in Pro. Per., of Counsel |
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aforesaid alloy amount APPROVED assay authority bills of credit Bland-Allison Act cent circulation coin money coinage colonies or plantations Commonwealth of England constitution contained contracts copper coin coyn crown debased declared denominations dime England foreign coins further enacted gold and silver gold coins gold dollar grains of pure grains of standard hereby indenture Justice King King's legal tender less lords spiritual Majesty Majesty's metals mint nominal value obiter dictum officers opinion ounces paper bills passed payment of debts pence penny pennyweight person piece pound troy pound weight proportion pure silver quarter eagle ratio realm receive redeem Secretary seigniorage shillings silver bullion silver coins silver dollars Sir Robert Cotton standard silver standard weight statute sterling subsidiary Supreme Court tender in payment thousand seven hundred three-dollar piece tion Treasury notes troy weight U. S. Stat value of gold weight and fineness
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Page 125 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states..
Page 20 - And on and after the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem, in coin, the United States legal-tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption, at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars.
Page 28 - ... be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar, at all times, in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin.
Page 27 - ... as may be necessary to provide for the redemption of the Treasury notes herein provided for, and any gain or seigniorage arising from such coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury.
Page 31 - January 18. 1837, on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provided by said act ; which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States, of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender at their nominal value, for all debts and dues public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.
Page 19 - Congress assembled, that the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value ; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the .world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 19 - ... legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one payment.
Page 110 - The extension of the prohibition to bills of credit, must give pleasure to every citizen, in proportion to his love of justice, and his knowledge of the true springs of public prosperity. The loss which America has sustained since the peace, from the pestilent effects of paper money on the necessary confidence between man and man ; on the necessary confidence in the public councils ; on the industry and morals of the people, and on the character of republican government, constitutes an enormous debt...
Page 129 - February 28th, 1878, ch. 20) issue coins of the same denominations as those already current by law, but of less intrinsic value than those, by reason of containing a less weight of the precious metals, and thereby enable debtors to discharge their debts by the payment of coins of the less real value.
Page 166 - The power of issuing bills of credit, and making them, at the discretion of the legislature, a tender in payment of private debts, had long been exercised in this country by the several Colonies and States; and during...