 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
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Reconstruction - 1866 - 836 pages
...its face? Answer. Yes; all of it that I ever read said that it was payable iu six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States. It is not due till then. Question. So that there ie none of it due yet? Answer. There is none of it... | |
 | 1868 - 796 pages
...JEFFERSON DAVIS. The Confederate Congress passed a law authorizing $100,000,000 treasury notes, payable six months after tho ratification of a treaty of peace...between the Confederate States and the United States. The notes not less than five dollars, to be reissuable at pleasure, to bo received in payment of all... | |
 | 1868 - 490 pages
...Government notes circulating as money, and designed to take the place < f gold and silver by being made " a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports" and interest on the bonded debt. As long as the people prefer an inferior currency — inferior because irredeemable and... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1868 - 480 pages
...Treasury notes: " Fundable in eight per cent. stock or bonds of the Confederate States. Six months after a ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States, the Confederate States of America will pay five dollars to bearer. Richmond, September 2, 1861. Receivable... | |
 | 1868 - 654 pages
...payer. They bore, indeed, thin character upon their face, for they were made payable only " after a ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America." While the war lasted, however, they had a certain contin gent value, and were used as... | |
 | Wilder Dwight - 1868 - 374 pages
...have seen their mortgages and notes melt away into Confederate bonds, payable ' six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States.' Money has been the one thing in excess, and delusion or terror have made this currency pass readily... | |
 | Wilder Dwight - 1868 - 376 pages
...have seen their mortgages and notes melt away into Confederate bonds, payable ' six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States.' Money has been the one thing in excess, and delusion or terror have made this currency pass readily... | |
 | 1868 - 894 pages
...single one. "Fundable in eight per cent, stock or bonds of the Confederate States. Six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States, the Confederate States of America will pay five dollars to bearer. Richmond, September 2d 1861. " Receivable... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1868 - 672 pages
...act declared, in terms, that the notes issued should be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on United States securities. If Congresa could authorize the issue of the notes with the properties imparted... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - 1869 - 292 pages
...issued bearing date March 10, 1862, and on the back of them was printed these words: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for U. 8. six per cent. Ixmdi, redeemable at the pleasure of the United Nates after... | |
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