 Treasury is required to purchase monthly not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver, and coin the same into dollars, 'each dollar weighing 412^ grains, and being nine-tenths fine.  Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington - Page 78by Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.), Philosophical Society of Washington, Washington, D.C. - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1881 - 824 pages
...the reading of a paper by Capt. CE BUTTON on THE SILVER QUESTION. BY the Act of February 28, 1818, the Secretary of the Treasury is required to purchase...legal tender, in any amount, for all debts public anfl private, including duties on imports and interest and principal of the public debt. The Secretary... | |
 | Bible - 1896 - 806 pages
...purchase of silver bullion was enacted in 1878, and known as the Allison Bill. It required the purchase of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion every month, and its coinage into dollars. The law of 1890, known as the Sherman law, provided... | |
 | Louis R. Ehrich - Silver question - 1892 - 132 pages
...1878, generally spoken of as the " Bland" bill, directed the secretary of the treasury to purchase not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion per month, to coin it into silver dollars, said silver dollars to be full legal tender at "their... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - Currency question - 1892 - 132 pages
...free-coinage bill was introduced in Congress, and in 1878 it was amended so as to provide for the coinage of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion per month into dollars to be full legal tender at their nominal value. This was passed, vetoed... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1893 - 900 pages
...1873, — but on government account ; the law requiring the mandatory purchase and coinage, monthly, of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion, with a further provision authorizing the issue of paper certificates in sums of ten dollars... | |
 | Jacob Kendrick Upton - Silver question - 1895 - 130 pages
...over a veto of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury was authorized and directed to purchase not less than two million nor more than four million dollars worth of silver per month and to coin it into silver dollars of the fineness and weight of those coined previous to... | |
 | Democratic Party. National Committee, 1896-1900 - Campaign literatur - 1896 - 396 pages
...the Senate by striking out the free coinage provision and providing for the purchase and coinage of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver per month. When the bill came back to the House it had become apparent to Mr. Bland, its author, that... | |
 | William Morris Stewart - Bimetallism - 1898 - 106 pages
...Representatives in Congress, requesting an immediate repeal of the BlandAllison act providing for the purchase of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion per month to be coined into standard dollars. In that letter, among other things, he said:... | |
 | Indianapolis monetary commission - Currency question - 1898 - 640 pages
...amount of $8,031,238. From 1874 to 1878, none were coined. The act of 28th February, 1878, required not less than two million nor more than four million dollars worth of bullion to be purphased monthly and coined into standard silver dollars. The act of 7th August, 1882,... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional history - 1900 - 444 pages
...house.1 Silver Dollars Virtually Subsidiary.— The act of 1878 required the purchase and coining of not less than two million nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion a month. This bill, as it passed the House, provided for the free coinage of silver; it was... | |
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