The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 59

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William B. Dana
F. Hunt, 1868
 

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Página 463 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Página 178 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Página 434 - July 17, 1861; these notes to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and to be exchangeable for six per cent United States bonds.
Página 210 - ... 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 185 - It is to be remarked that this ratio would be precisely that in which the quantity of money had been increased. If the whole money in circulation was doubled, prices would be doubled. If it was only increased one-fourth, prices would rise one-fourth.
Página 155 - An Act to authorize the issue of United States notes and for the redemption of funding thereof and for funding the floating debt of the United States...
Página 46 - The reduction in value of the half-eagle would slightly exceed 17 £ cents; in the sovereign, 4 cents.) 5. The coins of each nation to continue to bear the names and emblems preferred by each, but to be legal tenders, public and private, in all. The...
Página 439 - ... general panic in the South will this generation be apt to witness. On reflection, it will be seen that all of the forces above enumerated as those which will be likely to prevent any general slave insurrection are at the present time...
Página 434 - Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow.
Página 260 - to examine and report upon the recommendations of the Conference, and their adaptability to the circumstances of the United Kingdom, and whether it would be desirable to make any and what changes in the coinage of the United Kingdom in order to establish either wholly or partially such uniformity as the Conference had in contemplation.

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