| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 806 pages
...declares that the treasury-notes issued under that act shall " be lawful money, and a legal-tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, within the...United States, except duties on imports and interest" due the United States. — 2 Brightly's Digest, 108. The contract in this case, made since the adoption... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...notes of denominations not less than five dollars each, not bearing interest, and creating tho same a legal tender in payment of all debts public and...within the United States, except duties on imports, and payments by the government of interest on bonds and notes, which was required to be paid in coin. This... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...the receipts from customs being devoted to this purpose ; and these notes were to be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, with the exceptions above mentioned, and they were to be received at par in exchange for Government... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1862 - 896 pages
...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, at the Treasury of the... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1863 - 606 pages
...authorizing the issue of treasury notes to the amount of $150,000,000, and declaring that such notes " shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all...United States, except duties on imports and interest on bonds and notes of the United States," is not in conflict with the constitution of the United States,... | |
| Commerce - 1863 - 498 pages
...Act of February 25, 1862, by which it was provided that the Treasury notes authorized thereby " shall be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...United States except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." The principle has been long since settled that in construing the Constitution... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 758 pages
...for such period as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and words importing that the note is a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and...United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is receivable for any bonds of the United States which the Secretary of the... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - Legal tender - 1863 - 254 pages
...United States, $150,000,000 of United States notes, not bearing interest, which notes so issued should be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Thus, on the 3d of March, 1863, by the concurrent... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Banks and banking - 1863 - 76 pages
...of $150,000,000, and declaring that such notes " shall be lawful money and a legal tender inpayment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on bonds and notes of the United States," is a constitutional and valid law. The whole provision is... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 626 pages
...of Congress, of February 25, 1862, which declares that treasury notes issued pursuant to it, shall "be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Acts of Cong. 1862, (L. & B.'s ed.) p. 345. If this clause of the act mentioned is constitutional,... | |
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