 | United States - 1904 - 430 pages
...fix the standard of weights and measures. At the same time each state was forbidden to coin money or emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver coin legal tender. These double provisions, giving on one side and denying on the other, put substantially... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1904 - 174 pages
...existing before the National banking law was enacted. The Constitution says "No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts." 2 As early as 1837 it was held that while the states could not... | |
 | John Walter Davis, Charles Stewart - Illinois - 1905 - 184 pages
...nation to be circulated as money. The Constitution provides (Article I., Section 10) that no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. CAVEAT. According to United States patent laws, a caveat is a description... | |
 | William Ramage Lawson - Finance - 1906 - 422 pages
...that view to what may now seem absurd lengths. The clause in the constitution forbidding the states to " emit bills of credit or make anything but gold and silver legal tender in payment of debts " they would have extended to the Federal Government itself. " No... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1907 - 778 pages
...that the prohibition in the Constitution of the United States to the several States to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender for debts does not deny to Congress either of these powers. These are powers incident... | |
 | Montgomery Rollins - Finance - 1907 - 488 pages
...credit " of the United States. The Constitution further provides that the individual States shall not emit " bills of credit " or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. Bill of Exchange.1 (See first paragraph under " Exchange.") 1 " Bills... | |
 | Montgomery Rollins - Finance - 1907 - 486 pages
...credit " of the United States. The Constitution further provides that the individual States shall not emit " bills of credit" or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. Bill of Exchange. 1 (See first paragraph under " Exchange.") The laws... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - Constitutional history - 1907 - 256 pages
...considered in connection with the other clause, which denies to the states the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." By the Constitution "it was designed to provide the same currency having... | |
 | William Dwight Porter Bliss, Rudolph Michael Binder - Social problems - 1908 - 1358 pages
...Ramsay.) The new federal Constitution, framed in 1787, had decreed that no state "shall coin monev, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. The proposal in the constitutional convention to give to Congress the... | |
 | Roscoe Lewis Ashley - United States - 1910 - 520 pages
...punish persons who counterfeit the currency, but the States are expressly forbidden to "coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." The currency of the country may be used as a means for raising revenue... | |
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States the power to coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. 
