 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 776 pages
...only in coin, is a clear repudiation of the national faith pledged in the act making the greenback a legal tender in payment of " all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," inasmuch as the national debt is a public debt,... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1870 - 896 pages
...little more than half its value as expressed upon its face. The Act of Congress declares the notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest, &c.; but it cannot be said that the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...objection to the act does not lie in these features ; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be ." a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private/' so far as that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
 | Boyd Crumrine - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 636 pages
...February, 1862, provides that the treasury notes to he issued under it " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest, as aforesaid." The question is whether the law, impressing upon these... | |
 | William H. Sylvis, James C. Sylvis - Working class - 1872 - 470 pages
...just what it should, just what was proper — issued a paper currency free of interest, and made it a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on public debts. This took the power from the money-shavers, and gave... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 556 pages
...objection to the act does not lie in these features; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," so far at> that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
 | D. C. Cloud - Monopolies - 1873 - 488 pages
...objection to the act does not lie in these features; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," so far a^ that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 846 pages
...directly to the people, without the intervention of any system of banking corporation, which money shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, duties on imports included ; tins money to be interchangeable, at the option of the holders, with registered... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1875 - 858 pages
...directly to the people, without the intervention of any system of banking corporation, which money shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, duties on imports included; this money to be interchangeable, at the option of the holders, with registered... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 758 pages
...TENDER. — Treasury notes issued under the Act of Congress of February 25th, 1862, are lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except certain public debts mentioned in the Act. WHAT MOXEY SHERIFF MAY RECEIVE nr REDEMPTION. — The Sheriff... | |
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Treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private... 
