Looking Into Things; Or, The Great Conspiracy that Now is: Dedicated to the Sacred Memory of Abraham Lincoln ...the author., 1892 - 112 pages |
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Page 35 - An act to provide ways and means to support the government,' approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shall be extended and construed to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, to receive any treasury notes or other obligations issued under any act of Congress, whether bearing interest or not, in exchange for any description of bonds authorized by the act to which this is an amendment...
Page 85 - That all Federal land banks and joint stock land banks organized under this Act, when designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 33 - That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of United States notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer, at the Treasury of the United States...
Page 33 - ... legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 36 - That of United States notes not more than ten millions of dollars may be retired and cancelled within six months from the passage of this act, and thereafter not more than four millions of dollars in any one month...
Page 31 - This note is a legal tender at its face value for all debts public and private.
Page 85 - All national banking associations, designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be depositaries of public money, except receipts from customs, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary...
Page 8 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...