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&c.-Continued act Mar act of June act of March appropriation Balance beacon bonds building Cape Carolina cent circulation City claims clerk coast coin collector and inspector Congress consul Contingent expenses currency custom-house Delaware Department deposits deputy collector dollars eastern district ended June 30 Error in liquidation Excess of duty expenditures fiscal year 1875 fiscal year ended fog-signal Fractional Currency gold Harbor interest issued July June 23 Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior late collector light light-house light-station loan Long Island Sound manufactures Massachusetts National Bank North Carolina number of vessels officers Ohio Pacific paid payment Point Post-Office Quarter ended receipts received redeemed redemption Reef repairs River Saint Saint Lawrence River Salaries Secretary Sept September 30 Shoal showing the number silver Stat statement station tion tons Total amount Total number Treasury United United States notes Virginia York
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Page 176 - person, firm, or company having a place of business where credits are opened by the deposit or collection of money or currency, subject to be paid or remitted upon draft, check, or order, or where money is advanced or loaned on stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of exchange, or promissory notes, or
Page 199 - concurring in the views of the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the necessity of the contraction of the currency, with a view to as early a resumption of specie payments as the business interests of the country will permit.
Page 193 - after the 20th of February next (1817) no duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money accruing or becoming payable to the United States ought to be collected or received otherwise than in the legal currency of the United States, or Treasury-notes, or notes of the Bank of the United States, or
Page 216 - aggregate limit; and the provisions of law for the withdrawal and redistribution of national-bank currency among the several States and Territories are hereby repealed. And whenever, and so often, as circulating-notes shall be issued to any such banking-association, so increasing its capital or circulating-notes, or so newly organized as aforesaid, it shall be the duty
Page 161 - the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to alter, renew, or change the form, style, and device of any stamp, mark, or label used under any provision of the laws relating to distilled spirits, tobacco, snuff, and cigars, when, in their judgment, necessary for the collection of revenuetax
Page liii - Statutes, the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims was declared not to include any claim against the United States growing out of the destruction or appropriation of, or damage to, property by the Army or Navy engaged in the suppression of the rebellion,
Page xviii - the United States solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin.
Page 192 - and were receivable in payment of all duties and taxes laid by the authority of the United States, and of all public lands sold by said authority ; and when so received interest was to be computed at the rate of "one cent and onehalf a cent per day" on every one hundred dollars of principal, each
Page 199 - March 18, 1869, an act was passed, in which the United States "solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of United States notes in coin." Section six of the act of June 20, 1874, provides that " the amount of United States notes outstanding and to be used as a part of the circulating medium shall not exceed the sum of
Page 199 - The act of June 30, 1864, provided that the total amount of United States notes issued, or to be issued, should not exceed $400,000,000, and such additional sum, not exceeding $50,000,000, as might be