 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 - 1866
...States notes, which notes the act declared should be " lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," except duties on imports, and interest on the Federal debt. In this state of things, as appeared from a case stated for the Supreme Court of New... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 810 pages
...practicable. The first notes issued were dated March 10, and had printed on the back, "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 United States six per cent, bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - 1877 - 348 pages
...on the back of some of these legaltenders was printed this statement : " This note is a legal-tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for US six per cent bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after... | |
 | William Augustus Berkey - 1878 - 392 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 United States six per cent. bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United... | |
 | Jabez Franklin Cowdery - 1878 - 820 pages
...legal tender in sums not exceeding five dollars. The Cent is not a legal tender. Treasury Notes are a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on tho public debt. LETTER OF CREDIT. Letter of Credit. — A letter of credit is a writing given by one... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1878 - 403 pages
...government to its fulfillment. On its back we read, " This note is a legal tender at its par value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." This engraved slip of paper is then simply an evidence of debt. As it circulates from hand to hand,... | |
 | Aaron Lucius Chapin - 1879
...will pay the bearer ten dollars." On its back we read, "This note is a legal tender at its par value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt." This engraved slip of paper is, then, only an evidence of debt. The legal tender clause on its back... | |
 | 1885
...notes has some difference in power as tender. The United States notes are legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. The National bank notes are legal tender to any national bank ; and in payment of all dues to the Government,... | |
 | Peyton Boyle - 1891
...in the indictment that the note passed was a Confederate States note, "payable two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States," and it bore some general resemblance to the treasury notes and national bank notes of the United States.... | |
 | Luther Vanhorn Moulton - 1880 - 260 pages
...inclined to the opinion that custom (not law) decided that Congress meant that greenbacks should be a legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports, and principal and interest on the public debt. Verily, a great lawyer hath descended to the tricks of a... | |
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