The Money Question: The Legal Tender Paper Monetary System of the United States. An Analysis of the Specie Basis Or Bank Currency System, and of the Legal Tender Paper Money System ...

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Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1876 - 420 頁
 

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第 288 頁 - make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In 1822 the land owners of England numbered 165,000. According to the census of 1861 the number was about
第 212 頁 - United* 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 in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
第 106 頁 - many, that this truth gradually gains ground. This government has for its object public strength and individual security. It is said with us to be unattainable. If it was once formed it would maintain itself. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people.
第 122 頁 - expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a. large portion of our fellow citizens; and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.
第 189 頁 - were issued bearing date March 10, 1862, and on the back of them was printed these words: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on. the public debt, and is exchangeable for United States six per cent, bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after five years.
第 260 頁 - pay a like tax of ten per centum on the amount of notes of any person, firm, association other than a National Banking association, or of any corporation, State bank, or State banking association, or of any town, city, or municipal corporation, used for circulation and paid out by them.
第 216 頁 - obligations, except in cases where the law authorizing the issue of any such obligations has expressly provided that the same may be paid in lawful money, or in other currency than gold and silver; but none of the said interest bearing obligations, not already due, shall be redeemed or paid before maturity, unless at such
第 356 頁 - option, and instead of the bonds already described, an equal amount of bonds of the United States, coupon or registered, as may by said holder be desired, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure of the "United States, after live years from
第 215 頁 - Resolved, Third: "When the .obligations of the government do not expressly state upon their face, or the law under which they were issued does not provide that they shall be paid in coin, they ought in right to be paid in the lawful money of the United States.
第 355 頁 - Act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ilepresentatives of the United States,

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