Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this Government or any other, but gold and silver, either the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins at rates regulated by Congress. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Página 4351868Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| United States. Congress - 1837 - 740 páginas
...and silver. Most unquestionably littre is no legal tender, and there can be no legal ten. ¿;r, ii this country, under the authority of this Government or any other, but gold and silver, either the coinif i »four ciwn mints, or foreign coins, at rates regulated b\ Congre.«». This is a constitutional... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1860 - 824 páginas
...nothing is included but gold and silver. Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this Government or any other, but gold and silver, cither the coinage of our own mints, or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This is a constitutional... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1863 - 606 páginas
...was also fully stated by Mr. Webster, when he said, " most unquestionably there is, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority...this government or any other, but gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance. The states... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1909 - 746 páginas
...or silver, f " Most unquestionably," said Mr. Webster,! "there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this government, or any other, but gold and silver. . . . This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance." He admitted... | |
| John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 378 páginas
...or to displace this." And still more emphatically : " Most unquestionably there is, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority...this Government, or any other, but gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States... | |
| John Alexander Ferris - 1867 - 400 páginas
...more emphatically : " Most «»• LEGAL TENDER NOTES. 327 questionably there is, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this. Government, or any other, fbut gold and silver. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest... | |
| 1869 - 1168 páginas
...paper money has been quoted, in the Senate of the United States, on the 21st day of December, 1836, expressed the following opinion : Most unquestionably...foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This is a constituticnal principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The States are expressly... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1872 - 648 páginas
...nothing is included but gold and silver. Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this Government, or any other, but gold and silver, cither the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This is a constitutional... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 192 páginas
...nothing is included but gold and silver. Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this government or any other, but gold and silver,—either the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress. This... | |
| D. C. Cloud - 1873 - 488 páginas
...gold or silver. " Most unquestionably," said Mr. Webster, " there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority...this government, or any other, but gold and silver. * * This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain and of the very highest importance." He admitted... | |
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