...25th of that year provided for the issue of notes to be "lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the bonds and notes of the United States." Great opposition was made to the legal tender feature of the...

...will pay " Bearer Five Dollars," and are endorsed, " This note is a legal tender at its face value for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the public debt." In 1873 gold was declared to be the standard, and specie payments were resumed. A question now arose...

...promises to pay made by the Federal Government. These notes are a legal tender * at their face value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. 365. National Bank-notes. — The notes printed by the Government and issued by the national banks...

...$20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, 810,000. They are lawful money and a legal tender at their face value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. Their present amount was fixed in 1878 at $346,681,016.0(1. One hundred millions of dollars in gold...

...were first authorized by the act of February 25, 1862. They were made lawful money and a legal tender for all debts public and private, except duties on imports and interest upon the public debt. Except for these purposes the greenback dollar furnished the unit of value from...

...issue of Treasury Notes, commonly called Greenbacks, given by Congress the quality of legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest and principal of the national bonds, was made in April, 1862, and was justified in Congress and out...

...25th of February, 1862, passed an act which declared that the greenback should be a " legal-tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt," which from that time on should be paid in coin. The adoption of that act, known as the " exception-clause...

...Congress declared an issue of notes then authorized " lawful money and a legal-tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports, and interest on the bonds and [interest-bearing] notes of the United States." This issue was limited to $150,000,ooo, but...

...Congressional popular representatives stabbed this money in the back: — This notels a legal tender for all debts, public and private, EXCEPT duties on imports and interest on the public debt; and is exc/tangeablefor United States six-per-cent bonds. I What could be plainer than this? The back of...

...both upon their face and their back are declared to be " legal tender " in payment of all debts, both public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. In another opinion delivered by this same judge in the same Court, Feb. 7,1870 (8 Wall. 603), referring...