...date March 10, 1862, and on the back of them was printed these words: "This note is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and is exchangeable for United States six per cent. bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States...

...government to its fulfillment. On its back we read, " This note is a legal tender at its par value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." This engraved slip of paper is then simply an evidence of debt. As it circulates from hand to hand,...

...sums not exceeding five dollars. The Cent is not a legal tender. Treasury Notes are a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on tho public debt. LETTER OF CREDIT. Letter of Credit. — A letter of credit is a writing given by one...

...will pay the bearer ten dollars." On its back we read, "This note is a legal tender at its par value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt." This engraved slip of paper is, then, only an evidence of debt. The legal tender clause on its back...

...notes, $50,000,000 in lieu of the notes of the preceding year. These notes were to be a " legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." They were made receivable by the Government at par on all future loans, and convertible into 5.20 bonds,...

...notes has some difference in power as tender. The United States notes are legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. The National bank notes are legal tender to any national bank ; and in payment of all dues to the Government,...

...being its essential feature. 3. The " Treasury Note " is made " a legal tender, at its face value, for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." 4 Every note of the " National Currency," that is issued by any National Bank, is made "receivable...

...kind of dollars in which they should be paid, and although United States notes were a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. The duty and propriety of their being so paid, as the only just fulfillment of the implied obligation...

...twenty-five cents in any one payment." 189. United States Notes ("Greenbacks") are "a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt." Since Jan. 1, 1879, they have been redeemable " in coin * * * on their presentation for redemption...

...congress authorized the issue of notes of the United States, declaring them a legal tender for nil debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 12 Stat. at L. 345, 532, k 709. These notes are obligations of the United States, and are exempt from...