 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...the standard silver dollar of the same weight and fineness in use January I, 1861; and said dollar shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private. NAYS—Messrs. CH Adams, GA Bagley, BANKS, Candler, Cook, Davy, Denison, Durand, Eames, Foster, Frost,... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1881 - 556 pages
...obligations other than those to the United States it only uses the term 'debts' ; the notes it declares shall be 'a, legal tender in payment of all debts public and private.' Taxes are not debts within the meaning of this provision. A debt is a sum of money due by contract,... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...the standard silver dollar of the same weight and fineness in use January 1, 1861 ; and said dollar shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private." The Senate disagreed, and the bill went to a conference committee. On the 131h of July, upon the question... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury, Rafael Arroyo Bayley - Debts, Public - 1882 - 214 pages
...be applied to the redemption of demand-notes authorized by the act of July 17, 1861 ; these notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and to be exchangeable... | |
 | William Pratt Wade - Attachment and garnishment - 1886 - 818 pages
...of the legal tender act of Congress, which provides that the notes issued by the general government shall be " a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private," the Supreme Court of California holds that a tax due and unpaid does not create a debt.6 There are... | |
 | Agriculture - 1886 - 936 pages
...directly to the people, without the intervention of any system of banking corporations, which money shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private. In the autumn of 1881 the first local assembly of the Knights of Labor organized in Canada was " covered... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1887 - 952 pages
...directly to the people, without the intervention of any system of banking corporations, which money shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private. In the autumn of 1881 the first local assembly of the Knights of Labor organized in Canada was " covered... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional history - 1887 - 426 pages
...l8g2 The act of February 25th of that year provided for the issue of notes to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States." Great opposition was made... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - United States - 1887 - 420 pages
...lg(,2 The act of February 25th of that year provided for the issue of notes to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States." Great opposition was made... | |
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Treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private... 
