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" 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 25
1865
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United States Reports: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 7

United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 804 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...
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The American Year-book and National Register for 1869 ..., Volume 1

David Nelson Camp - 1869 - 844 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...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 18

Henry Barnard - 1869 - 838 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...
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of ...

1869 - 1168 pages
...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...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 74

United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 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...
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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the ..., Volume 2

John Bouvier - 1870 - 900 pages
...11, p. 163). No foreign coins are now a legal tender. LEOALIS HOMO 25 LEGITIM been issued, which are a legal tender for all debts, public and private,...duties on imports and interest on the public debt. (Act of Congress of May 23, 1862.) A postage currency has also been authorized, -which is receivable...
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The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...

1870 - 780 pages
...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...
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of ..., Volume 9; Volume 1869

1870 - 776 pages
...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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 1

Joseph Brown Heiskell - 1870 - 882 pages
...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...
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A Political Manual for 1870: Including a Classified Summary of the Important ...

Edward McPherson - 1870 - 144 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...
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