The National Currency: April 6, 1864 |
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... statement of the situation of the country , I hold , without the fear of contradiction , and without the necessity of resorting to figures , that there was a manifest insufficiency of coin within the command of the government for the ...
... statement of the situation of the country , I hold , without the fear of contradiction , and without the necessity of resorting to figures , that there was a manifest insufficiency of coin within the command of the government for the ...
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... he was an important actor ; but I acquit him of everything , except extraordinary careless- ness in the statement . When arraigning the Secretary of the Treasury for want of skill in establishing a convertible cur- 20.
... he was an important actor ; but I acquit him of everything , except extraordinary careless- ness in the statement . When arraigning the Secretary of the Treasury for want of skill in establishing a convertible cur- 20.
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... statement shows the absurdity of the power given to money - the medium of distribution to , capital and labor . Under the operation of our present unjust monetary system , there is no hope of the producers or labors bettering their ...
... statement shows the absurdity of the power given to money - the medium of distribution to , capital and labor . Under the operation of our present unjust monetary system , there is no hope of the producers or labors bettering their ...
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... statement that many of them were obtained by possessors at one - half their expressed value . Their compulsory and immediate redemption at their face value was a hardship upon the subscribers , and it is upon the whole creditable that ...
... statement that many of them were obtained by possessors at one - half their expressed value . Their compulsory and immediate redemption at their face value was a hardship upon the subscribers , and it is upon the whole creditable that ...
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... statement that many of them were obtained by possessors at one - half their expressed value . Their compulsory and immediate redemption at their face value was a hardship upon the subscribers , and it is upon the whole creditable that ...
... statement that many of them were obtained by possessors at one - half their expressed value . Their compulsory and immediate redemption at their face value was a hardship upon the subscribers , and it is upon the whole creditable that ...
Common terms and phrases
Act of Parliament Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition amended amount Archives assay office assessment Assistant treasurer United authorized bank notes Bank of England bankers and usurers bill bonds capital certificates certificates of deposit coin notes coinage Commissioners Committee Congress counterfeit Court Records demand deposits depreciation effect enacted EWING exchange fractional currency Gallatin gold and silver gold coin Government greenbacks hundred millions increase issue June 30 labor Land Bank lawful money legal tender notes legal-tender notes loan March measure ment millions of dollars national banks National Currency outstanding paid paper currency paper money partners payable PHILLIPS present producers public debt purpose rate of interest received redeem redemption repeal reserve resumption act Secretary SHERMAN securities sell Senate silver coin sinking fund soldiers specie payments statement surplus revenue thereof tion Total Treasury notes United States notes whole
Popular passages
Page 17 - Every violation of this section shall be prosecuted in any court of the United States having jurisdiction of crimes within the district in which such violation was committed, or through which the transportation may have been conducted; and whenever the offense is begun in one jurisdiction and completed in another it may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either jurisdiction in the same manner as if the offense had been actually and wholly committed therein.
Page 17 - ... shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
Page 11 - State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law.
Page 19 - March second, nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An Act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands," and to provide for the more efficient administration of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
Page 1 - ... receivable in payment of all taxes, internal duties, excises, debts and demands of every kind due to the United States, except duties on imports...
Page 13 - ... thereon; Seventh. A statement of the expense of said road and its fixtures; Eighth. A statement of the indebtedness of said company, setting forth the various kinds thereof. Which report shall be sworn to by the president of the said...
Page 28 - 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.
Page 13 - An Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes...