History of Coinage and Currency in the United States and the Perennial Contest for Sound Money, Volume 10Macmillan, 1903 - 666 páginas |
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... Trade Dollar . Silver Production increases . Fall in Price . Sectional Agitation for Rehabilitation of Silver Dollar . The Silver Com- mission of 1876. Free Coinage proposed . The Bland - Allison Act of 1878. The Hayes Veto . Silver ...
... Trade Dollar . Silver Production increases . Fall in Price . Sectional Agitation for Rehabilitation of Silver Dollar . The Silver Com- mission of 1876. Free Coinage proposed . The Bland - Allison Act of 1878. The Hayes Veto . Silver ...
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... trading with the United the ratio . States , which would probably be 15 to 1 ; also that the coins provided be made lawful tender unless diminished . in weight . Jefferson's paper was also referred to a committee , which did not ...
... trading with the United the ratio . States , which would probably be 15 to 1 ; also that the coins provided be made lawful tender unless diminished . in weight . Jefferson's paper was also referred to a committee , which did not ...
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... trade warranted . Upon the other hand he pointed out that the retention of a metallic cur- rency was dependent upon the volume of paper currency in use ( a subject also discussed in his report ) , that in fact the value of gold and ...
... trade warranted . Upon the other hand he pointed out that the retention of a metallic cur- rency was dependent upon the volume of paper currency in use ( a subject also discussed in his report ) , that in fact the value of gold and ...
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... trade , and therefore we must place the same value upon gold that other nations do , if we wish to gain any part of theirs , or to regain any part of our own . " He made his acknowledgments " to the great apostle of American liberty ...
... trade , and therefore we must place the same value upon gold that other nations do , if we wish to gain any part of theirs , or to regain any part of our own . " He made his acknowledgments " to the great apostle of American liberty ...
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... trade balances were for a number of years adverse , the placing of investments abroad proved more than an offset and the stock of gold in the country increased . Notwithstanding the continual export of United States silver coin , the ...
... trade balances were for a number of years adverse , the placing of investments abroad proved more than an offset and the stock of gold in the country increased . Notwithstanding the continual export of United States silver coin , the ...
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History of Coinage and Currency in the United States and the ..., Volume 10 Alonzo Barton Hepburn Visualização completa - 1903 |
History of Coinage and Currency in the United States and the ..., Volume 10 Alonzo Barton Hepburn Visualização completa - 1903 |
History of Coinage and Currency in the United States and the ..., Volume 10 Alonzo Barton Hepburn Visualização completa - 1903 |
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Página 458 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever : and also to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at their pleasure ; and also to...
Página 68 - ... for carrying them into execution. The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory...
Página 554 - That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated quarterly by the Director of the Mint and be proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
Página 65 - States, namely, that every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Página 505 - ... 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.
Página 493 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Página 515 - ... shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Página 574 - The value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Página 459 - That in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this Act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved, but...
Página 67 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.