 | John Jay Knox - 1884 - 280 pages
...that the language of the act of February 25, 1862, making the United States notes issued thereunder " a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States," included prepxisting debts as well as debts which should be incurred ftfter the passage of the act,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 888 pages
...legal-tender quality to notes did not change the general language of that act. They make such notes a legal tender " in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States." In the case mentioned, a statute of Oregon requiring the payment of taxes for State and school purposes... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1896 - 768 pages
...receivable as between national banks themselves, Rev. Stat. §§ 5182, 5196, had not been declared 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," as United States Treasury notes had been, Rev.... | |
 | United States - 1914 - 1382 pages
...c. 131, § 16, 17 Stat. 427. § 6575. (RS § 3588.) United States notes. United States notes shall be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of...public and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Act Feb. 25, 1862, c. 33, § 1, 12 Stat. 345.... | |
 | Curtis Hillyer - 1914 - 1628 pages
...twenty-five cents in any one payment. 219. United States Notes.— (§ 3588.) United States notes shall e made, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 220. Demand Treasury Notes. — (§ 3589.) Demand... | |
 | Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 588 pages
...States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in com, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender...except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." The act of July 11, 1862, authorized a similar additional issue of $150,000,000. This act also provided... | |
 | Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 580 pages
...States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender...except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." The act of July 11, 1862, authorized a similar additional issue of $150,000,000. This act also provided... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - 1915 - 376 pages
...March 3, 1863, ch. 73, passed during the War of the Rebellion, and enacting that these notes should "be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of...public and private, within the United States," except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 12 Stat. 345, 532, 709. * * * * The act of May... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1915 - 492 pages
...the United States, except import duties and interest on the public debt; and in addition to make them a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except as aforesaid. The constitutionality of this was much doubted, but the law was upheld in fifteen out... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1916 - 688 pages
...States of every kind whatsoever, except for interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin, and shall also be lawful money and a legal tender...duties on imports and interest as aforesaid. . . . And such United States notes shall be received the same as coin, at their par value, in payment for any... | |
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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. 
