| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1870 - 806 pages
...declares that the treasury-notes issued under that act shall " be lawful money, and a legal-tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, within the...United States, except duties on imports and interest" due the United States. — 2 Brightly's Digest, 108. The contract in this case, made since the adoption... | |
| 1889 - 1060 pages
...from customs being devoted to this purpose ; and these notes were to be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, with the exceptions above mentioned, and they were to be received at par in exchange for Government... | |
| William Buck Dana - 1862 - 618 pages
...upon bonds and notes, whichrshall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within...United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. And any holders of said United States notes depositing any sum not less than $50, or... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 896 pages
...individuals, corporations, and associations, within the United States, and shall also be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, and shall be exchangeable at any time at their par value, the same as coin, at the Treasury of the... | |
| 1863 - 498 pages
...was provided that the Treasury notes authorized thereby " shall be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private within...duties on imports and interest on the public debt." The principle has been long since settled that in construing the Constitution of the United States,... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1863 - 606 pages
...upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within...United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." The case states that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $130,... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1863 - 758 pages
...interest upon bonds, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within...United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid: Provided, That no interest shall be deemed due and payable upon said interest-bearing... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 pages
...upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within...United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." The case states that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $130,... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - 1863 - 254 pages
...States notes, not bearing interest, which notes so issued should be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Thus, on the 3d of March, 1863, by the concurrent... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1864 - 626 pages
...which declares that treasury notes issued pursuant to it, shall "be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within...United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Acts of Cong. 1862, (L. & B.'s ed.) p. 345. If this clause of the act mentioned is constitutional,... | |
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