 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 896 pages
...United States to 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,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1863 - 606 pages
...amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Any law made by the congress of the United States, in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1863 - 76 pages
...amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." JOHNSON, J. The tender by the defendant, of the legal... | |
 | 1863 - 498 pages
...amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Any law made by the Congress in the United States, in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 pages
...objection to the act does not lie in these features; it lies in the provision which declares that the notes shall be " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private," so far as that provision applies to private debts, and debts owing by the United States. In considering... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1868 - 724 pages
...at the treasury of the United States, and it provides that these notes shall be " lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except," &c. (12 US Stat. at Large, p. 711.) The validity of the act of congress above referred to, is not now... | |
 | 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
...25th February, 1862. That act declared, in terms, that the notes issued should be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on United States securities. If Congresa could authorize the issue of... | |
 | Elbridge Gerry Spaulding - 1869 - 292 pages
...consideration. The bill, after providing for the issue of treasury notes, contains ie this clause, ''and which treasury notes shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States," and you desire my opinion whether this clause is, or is uot, constitutional.... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1870 - 896 pages
...little more than half its value as expressed upon its face. The Act of Congress declares the notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest, &c.; but it cannot be said that the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 854 pages
...authorizing the issue of United 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 011 the Federal debt. In this state of things, as appeared from a case... | |
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States, and, when so redeemed, may be reissued; but no greater or less amount of such notes shall be outstanding at any time than the cost of the silver bullion and the standard silver dollars coined therefrom then held in the treasury purchased by such... 
