 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...prompt resumption of specie payments. But it went no further than to pledge the faith of the nation " to make provision at the earliest practicable period...the redemption of the United States notes in coin." The interest-bearing debt of the nation was yet (July 1, 1868) $2,200,000,000, some of it still bearing... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...interest, known as United States notes, and of all the interest- bearing oblieashall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at...also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at a practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin." This may be termed the... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pages
...be redeemed or paid before maturity, unless at such time United States notes I shall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at...also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at a practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin." This may be termed the... | |
 | Nelson A. Dunning - Money - 1887 - 290 pages
...shall be redeemed or paid before maturity, unless at such time United States notes are convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at...bonds to be redeemed can be sold at par in coin." A recent writer says : "If this language means anything, it means that Congress then recognized the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1887 - 890 pages
...into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at such timo bonds of the United States bearing • lower rate of interest than the bonds to be redeemed...also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at tha earliest practicable period tor the redemption of the United States notes in coin. " If the word... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - United States - 1887 - 420 pages
..."An act to strengthen the public credit" was passed in March, 1869, in which ' ' the United States solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the...earliest practicable period for the redemption of these notes in coin." Six years later, in January, Redeemabie 1875, Congress passed an act that the... | |
 | Edward Stanwood - Presidents - 1888 - 476 pages
...doubts of its purpose to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and "solemnly pledged its faith to make provision, at the earliest practicable...the redemption of the United States notes in coin." Commercial prosperity, public morals, and national credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - Political parties - 1888 - 436 pages
...doubt of its purpose to discharge all just obligations to the public creditors, and "solemnly pledged its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable...the redemption of the United States notes in coin." Commercial prosperity, public morals, and National credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by... | |
 | Republican National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1888 - 408 pages
...made no advance toward resumption, no preparation for resumption, but instead ha» ob' pledged lie faith to make provision at the " earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notée in coin." Commercial prosperity, public morals, and national credit demand that thin promise... | |
 | United States - Finance, Public - 1889 - 90 pages
...shall be redeemed or paid before maturity unless at such time United States notes shall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at...the redemption of the United States notes in coin. [Approved, March 18, 1869. 16 Statutes at Large, 1.] XXVIII, . . . July, 1870. — An Act to provide... | |
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And the United States also solemnly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of the United States notes in coin. 
