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" July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public... "
Business Forms and Financial Institutions - Page 9
by Franklin Reinhardt Heath - 1918 - 195 pages
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The North American Review, Volume 153

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1891 - 776 pages
...25th of February, 1862, passed an act which declared that the greenback should be a " legal-tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," which from that time on should be paid in coin. The adoption of that act, known as the " exception-clause...
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The American Government, National and State

Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1891 - 548 pages
...Congress declared an issue of notes then authorized " lawful money and a legal-tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the bonds and [interest-bearing] notes of the United States." This issue was limited to $150,000,ooo, but...
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Civilization Civilized, Or The Process of Nationalization

Stephen Maybell - Social problems - 1889 - 362 pages
...how the Congressional popular representatives stabbed this money in the back: — This notels a legal tender for all debts, public and private, EXCEPT duties on imports and interest on the public debt; and is exc/tangeablefor United States six-per-cent bonds. I What could be plainer than this? The back...
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Objections: Legal and Practical, to Our National Currency System

Francis Augustus Brooks - Currency question - 1893 - 68 pages
...both upon their face and their back are declared to be " legal tender " in payment of all debts, both public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. In another opinion delivered by this same judge in the same Court, Feb. 7,1870 (8 Wall. 603), referring...
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A Course in Civil Government: Based on "The Government of the People of the ...

Francis Newton Thorpe - United States - 1894 - 382 pages
...promises to pay made by the Federal Government. These notes are a legal tender f at their face value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 234. National Bank-Notes. — The notes printed by the Government and issued by the national banks...
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Sound Currency, 1895-1896: A Compendium of Accurate and Timely ..., Volume 2

Currency question - 1895 - 548 pages
...$346,681,016, remains outstanding — the remnant of the forced paper currency of the late Civil War. These notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Since 1879 they have been redeemable in "coin " (gold) ; and when redeemed are reissued. United States...
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Sound Currency

Banks and banking - 1895 - 558 pages
...$346,681,016, remains outstanding — the remnant of the forced paper currency of the late Civil War. These notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private;...duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Since 1879 they have been redeemable in "coin " (gold) ; and when redeemed are reissued. United States...
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Principles and Practice of Finance: A Practical Guide for Bankers, Merchants ...

Edward Carroll - Banking law - 1895 - 332 pages
...currency issued during the late Civil War, of which a fixed amount, $346,681,006, is outstanding. They are legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt, but being redeemable upon demand in coin, the latter limitation of their legaltender quality is of...
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Congressional Currency: An Outline of the Federal Money System

Armistead Churchill Gordon - Currency question - 1895 - 256 pages
...is an inconvertible paper currency,1 reciting in terms that it is a legal tender at its face value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt ; and is made payable to the bearer, but not on demand, nor at any fixed time. It is a significant...
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Money and Banking Illustrated by American History

Horace White - Banks and banking - 1895 - 526 pages
...that the back of each note bore a printed statement saying that it was legal tender for all payments, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public Dollar?* * debt. True, but the face of the note Said' "The United States w1ll pay the bearer dollars."...
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