 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 291865Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 780 pages
...State taxation claimed in this case, was of United States notes, declared by act of Congress to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports .and interest on the public debt, while in the other cases it was of certificates of indebtedness. These United States notes, as is sufficiently... | |
 | David Nelson Camp - 1869 - 824 pages
...Tender act, in authorizing the issue of $150,000,000 Greenbacks, declared that "these notes shall be a legal tender for all debts, public and private," except Duties on Imports and interest on the National Debt. A ready answer to this cavil suggests itself when we consider that nobody supposed or... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1869
...Tender act, in authorizing the issue of $150,000,000 Greenbacks, declared that " these notes shall be a legal tender for all debts, public and private," except Duties on Imports and interest on the National Debt. A ready answer to this cavil suggests itself when we consider that nobody supposed or... | |
 | 1869
...government notes circulating as money, and designed to take the place of 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870
...State taxation claimed in this case, was of United States notes, declared by act of Congress to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt, while in the other cases it was of certificates of indebtedness. These United States notes, as is sufficiently... | |
 | 1870
...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, secured by the entire property of the nation. We therefore... | |
 | 1870
...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, secured by the entire property of the nation. We therefore... | |
 | Joseph Brown Heiskell - 1870
...payor. They bore, indeed, this character upon their face, for they were made payable only after the 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 contingent value, and were used as money... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1870 - 123 pages
...payer. They bore, indeed, this character upon their face, for they were made payable only " after the 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 contingent value, and were used as... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1870
...made," or " ten days after the war." Confederate Treasury notes were worded, '' Six months after a ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America," &c., expressly for the purpose of making then- payment depend CHAPMAN v. WACASEK. upon... | |
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