American State DebtsDuke University Press, 1941 - 629 pages |
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27th Congress accrued interest Alabama amendment approved approximately Arkansas authorized average bank bills bondholders bonds issued bonus borrowing bridge canal cent bonds certificates claims colonies Commission Congress constitutional contract counties coupons court held debt debt service defaulted deficit depreciation districts dollars estimated figures finance Florida gasoline tax Georgia governor highway debts highway funds highway revenues holders Holford bonds Ibid income increased incurred indebtedness interest payments interest rates June 30 later legislators legislature levy limited Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts maturities McGrane ment Mississippi mortgage North Carolina notes obligations outstanding paid paper money pay interest Pennsylvania period pledged principal purpose railroads received Reconstruction reduced refunding reimbursement Report repudiated retired revenue bonds Rhode Island roads Rural Credit sinking fund South Dakota state's Supreme Court Table taxpayers Tennessee tion toll bridge treasury United veterans vote voters warrants West Virginia York
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Page 432 - No such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it, at such election.
Page 432 - ... sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Page 53 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person...
Page 234 - The remedy sought, in order to be complete, would require the court to assume all the executive authority of the state, so far as it related to the enforcement of this law, and to supervise the conduct of all persons charged with any official duty in respect to the levy, collection, and disbursement of the tax in question, until the bonds, principal and interest, were paid in full; and that, too, in a proceeding in which the state, as a state, was not and could not be made a party.
Page 56 - So high were the feuds excited by this subject, that on its rejection business was suspended. Congress met and adjourned from day to day without doing any thing, the parties being too much out of temper to do business together.
Page 61 - February, 1793, authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual States...
Page 197 - The new State shall take upon itself a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January, 1861, to be ascertained by charging to it all State expenditures within the limits thereof, and a just proportion of the ordinary expenses of the State Government, since any part of said debt was contracted; and deducting therefrom the monies paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth from the counties included within the said new State during the same period.
Page 99 - I repeat again, that no conduct was ever more profligate than that of the State of Pennsylvania. History cannot pattern it: and let no deluded being imagine that they will ever repay a single farthing — their people have tasted of the dangerous luxury of dishonesty, and they will never be brought back to the homely rule of right. The money transactions of the Americans are become a by-word among the nations of Europe. In every grammar-school of the old world ad Grcecas Calendas is translated —...
Page 137 - Treasury be, and he is hereby directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the Governor of any State, or to his duly authorized agents, the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred by such State for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting its troops employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection against the United States, to be settled upon proper vouchers to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting...
Page 243 - ... is not to be awarded against a sovereign government, unless its consent to pay interest has been manifested by an act of its legislature, or by a lawful contract of its executive officers.