...1&63, and July 11, 1863, provided for the issuing of Treasury notes, and declared that the same should be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, except in certain specified cases. The constitutionality of this legislation came up for...

...was approved February 25, 1862, amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." JOHNSON, J. The tender by the defendant, of the...

...was approved February 25, 1862, amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Any law made by the congress of the United States,...

...was approved February 25, 1862, amongst other provisions, declared that these notes, when issued, " shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid." Any law made by the Congress in the United States,...

...denominations, not less than Denomination^, one dollar, as he may prescribe, which notes so issued shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public С(.^^г',1ециет'аш1 and private, within the United States, except for duties on imports interest....

...\ interest in coin for any specified length of time. tChe bill simply enacted that the notes should be \ lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all ( debts except duties on imports and interest on the / public debt, which should be paid in coin. There / would...

...Congress of February 25, 1862 (12 US Stat. at L., 711), making the notes issued by the United States, "la-wful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United Wilson v. Morgan. States ;" — a contract for the payment of a sum in gold and silver dollars is satisfied...

...passed, and still remain in force. As the act of 1862 declares that the notes of the United States shall also be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of debts, and this act has been sustained, by the recent decision of this court, as valid and constitutional,...

...February 20, 1862, and March 3, 1863 (12 US Statutes at Large, 341, 711), enact that these notes shall " be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, within the United States, except for duties on imports, and interest on the public debt."...

...debt of the United States," which provides that the notes. issued in pursuance of that act " shall be lawful money, and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private"—is or is not a law of the land. The counsel of the defendant—recognizing that on him...