 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 251865Full view - About this book
 | Martin Shubik - 1999 - 472 pages
...a $10,000 note, first authorized on March 3, 1863, although it bore the legend "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt."7 The largest notes issued were for $100,000, but these were not for public circulation and required... | |
 | Cynthia M. Gayton, Richard C. Vaughn - 2004 - 580 pages
...issued the Confederate notes, which were not made a legal tender, and were only payable "after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America." These notes were used as money, in the transactions of the people, within the military... | |
 | David W. Shaw - 2004 - 256 pages
...her for the sum of $7,000, payable to the President of the Confederate States thirty days after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States. The brig Clarence and the schooner Shindler were then set on fire. We now stood in chase of a brig.... | |
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