A Resource of War -: The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available. History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion. Being a Loan Without Interest and a National CurrencyExpress Print. Company, 1869 - 317 páginas |
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A Resource of War--The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available ... Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Visualização completa - 1869 |
A Resource of War -: The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available ... Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Visualização completa - 1869 |
A Resource of War--The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available ... Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Visualização completa - 1869 |
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adopted amendment amount army and navy authorize the issue bank bill Bank of England bearing interest bills of credit bonds certificates of deposit Committee Congress Conkling Constitution contract coupon coupon bonds creditors DEAR SIR-I demand notes deposits depreciate depreciated currency duties on imports E. G. SPAULDING exigency faith favor Fessenden funded gentleman gold and silver Government greenbacks House issue of Treasury Joseph Bailey July lawful money legal tender act legal tender clause legal tender notes loan means measure ment Morrill national bank national currency necessity note bill notes a legal obliged paid in coin paper money passed present proposed public debt question rate of interest rebellion received redeemable redemption Roscoe Conkling Secretary Chase Senate six per cent soldiers specie payments speech Stevens taxation taxes tender in payment tion Treasury Department Treasury notes twenty United States notes vote York
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Página 150 - July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which is to be set apart as a sinking fund, and the interest of which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct.
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Página 163 - States, coupon or registered, as may by said holder be desired, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after five years, and payable twenty years from the date thereof.
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Página 42 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and the Territory of Dakota.
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Página 36 - And unless it can be shown that the circumstances which may affect the public safety are reducible within certain determinate limits ; unless the contrary of this position can be fairly and rationally disputed, it must be admitted, as a necessary consequence, that there can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defence and protection of the community, in any matter essential to its efficacy — that is, in any matter essential to the formation, direct1on, or support of the...
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