 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 852 pages
...notes, of denominations not less than five dollars each, not bearing interest, and creating the same a legal tender in payment of all debts public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports, and payments by the' government of interest on bonds and notes, which was... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 pages
...issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the further provision was that the notes so issued should be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all...debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest upon bonds and notes of the United States, which the act provides... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1866 - 716 pages
...and discharging the mortgage debt due to him, declare that such notes "shall 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." (US Stat. at Large, vol.11, 345, §... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1866 - 596 pages
...1862 (12 US Stat. at L., 711), making the notes issued by the United States, "la-wful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United Wilson v. Morgan. States ;" — a contract for the payment of a sum in gold and silver dollars is satisfied... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 378 pages
...The Loan and Treasury Note Bill of February, 1862, declares the Treasury notes " lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest" upon the public debt. This provision most effectually bars all... | |
 | 1868 - 490 pages
...themselves of the ambiguity of the acts of February and July, 1863, by which greenbacks are made "a lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest upon bonds." By a perversion of the plain meaning of this statute... | |
 | 1868 - 808 pages
...greenbacks," before 1863.] PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE. the five-twenty bonds were issued, -were declared by law to be " lawful money and legal tender, in payment of all debts, public and private, except customs, and the interest on the public debt," there is obviously a basis for the position that... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1868 - 140 pages
...for interest 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 the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. Act Limiting the Amount of " Greenbacks." June... | |
 | Anthony L. Robertson - 1868 - 778 pages
...no application to this case. It provides that the notes thereby created shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States. (12 Stat. 345.) Conceding the debt which underlies this case to be a " debt within the United States... | |
 | 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
...interest, duties, debts and demands due to the United States, and declaring them to be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States. It is the question of power that we inquire about, and being of the opinion that the provisions in... | |
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... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. 
