The Decennial Publications of the University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Press, 1903 - Universities and colleges |
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1st Sess 2d Sess amount Appendix authorized banks bearing interest became a law bestowed bills of credit BRONSON cent charter circulation clause coin money coinage power committee constitution contracts convention creditor currency Debates debtor debts December declared denominations depreciation emit bills enacted England English exercised expressly February 25 federal foreign coins Globe gold and silver gold coins grains granted Griswold Henry VIII Hepburn History Ibid January January 26 July July 17 June Justice lawful money legal tender legal-tender quality legislation legislature March Massachusetts medium ment metallic notes issued obligation paper money Parliament payable power to issue proclamation prohibition provision public dues receivable redeemable redemption reissue revenue Rhode Island secretary seigniorage Senate shillings silver coins silver dollar South Carolina Spanish milled dollars specie Statutes at Large taxes tender in payment three-cent pieces tion tower pound transactions treasury notes United United States notes vote weight
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Page 68 - 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 80 - States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 134 - The power, as incident to the power of borrowing money and issuing bills or notes of the Government for money borrowed, of impressing upon those bills or notes the quality of being a legal tender for the payment of private debts, was a power universally understood to belong to sovereignty, in Europe and America, at the time of the framing and adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
Page 141 - ... at par in all parts of the United States in payment of taxes, excises, public lands, and all other dues to the United States, except for duties on imports ; and also for all salaries and other debts and demands owing by the United States to individuals, corporations, and associations within the United States, except interest on the public debt, and in redemption of the national currency.
Page 16 - A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts.
Page 78 - It will have a most salutary influence on the credit of the United States to remove the possibility of paper money. This expedient can never succeed while its mischiefs are remembered. And as long as it can be resorted to, it will be a bar to other resources.
Page 76 - ... nor keep troops or ships of war in time of peace; nor enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with any foreign power; nor engage in any war, unless it shall be actually...
Page 134 - It is equally well settled that Congress has the power to incorporate national banks, with the capacity, for their own profit as well as for the use of the government in its money transactions, of issuing bills which under ordinary circumstances pass from hand to hand as money at their nominal value, and which, when so current, the law has always recognized as a good tender in payment of money debts, unless specifically objected to at the time of the tender.
Page 77 - Mr. Mercer was a friend to paper money, though in the present state and temper of America, he should neither propose nor approve of such a measure. He was consequently opposed to a prohibition of it altogether.
Page 84 - ... of it. But, sir, a majority of the convention, being wise beyond every event, and being willing to risk any political evil rather than admit the idea of a paper emission in any possible case, refused to trust this authority to a government to which they were lavishing the most unlimited powers of taxation, and to the mercy of which they were willing blindly to trust the liberty and property of the citizens of every State in the Union ; and they erased that clause from the system.