The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 59William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1868 - Commerce |
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... measures being inadequate , we took possession of the island of Lagos and of one or two points on the adjacent coast , which , with a couple of gunboats on the lagoons , has answered our purpose effectually . A considerable trade in ...
... measures being inadequate , we took possession of the island of Lagos and of one or two points on the adjacent coast , which , with a couple of gunboats on the lagoons , has answered our purpose effectually . A considerable trade in ...
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... measured by any figures of which the mind can take definite impress ; nor would it be easy to collect the stat- istics of its many parts into an exhaustive and accurate view . In the year 1861 , which we take for illustration , as ...
... measured by any figures of which the mind can take definite impress ; nor would it be easy to collect the stat- istics of its many parts into an exhaustive and accurate view . In the year 1861 , which we take for illustration , as ...
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... measuring them by time instead of length , by days instead of miles . This is the ultimate test to which all commercial routes must be subjected . The duration of the voyage by the existing routes has just been given . In company with ...
... measuring them by time instead of length , by days instead of miles . This is the ultimate test to which all commercial routes must be subjected . The duration of the voyage by the existing routes has just been given . In company with ...
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... measures in which they may have a personal interest , excepting as these shall have received a similar sanction . In this way the Na tional Board is to be protected against abuse from those who would em- ploy it to subserve private ends ...
... measures in which they may have a personal interest , excepting as these shall have received a similar sanction . In this way the Na tional Board is to be protected against abuse from those who would em- ploy it to subserve private ends ...
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... measure would effect in the present legal standard value of the gold coin of the United States would be at the rate of three and a - half dollars in the hundred , and the reduction in the legal value of our silver coinage would be still ...
... measure would effect in the present legal standard value of the gold coin of the United States would be at the rate of three and a - half dollars in the hundred , and the reduction in the legal value of our silver coinage would be still ...
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Page 359 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Page 178 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 197 - He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Page 210 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 185 - It is to be remarked that this ratio would be precisely that in which the quantity of money had been increased. If the whole money in circulation was doubled, prices would be doubled. If it was only increased one-fourth, prices would rise one-fourth.
Page 331 - Most unquestionably there is no "legal tender, and there can be no legal tender in this country, under the authority of this government or any other, but gold and silver, either the coinage of our own mints or foreign coins at rates regulated by congress.
Page 54 - If there be one conclusion more clear than another, deducible from all the history of mankind, it is the danger of hasty and inconsiderate legislation upon weights and measures. From this conviction, the result of all inquiry is, that, while all the existing systems of metrology are very imperfect and susceptible of improvements, involving in no small degree the virtue and happiness of future ages; while the impression of...
Page 46 - The reduction in value of the half-eagle would slightly exceed 17 £ cents; in the sovereign, 4 cents.) 5. The coins of each nation to continue to bear the names and emblems preferred by each, but to be legal tenders, public and private, in all. The...
Page 331 - ... regulated by Congress. This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. The states are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and although no such express prohibition is applied to Congress, yet as Congress has no power granted to it, in this respect, but to coin money and to regulate the value of foreign coins, it clearly has no power to substitute paper, or anything else, for coin, as a tender in payment...
Page 46 - Coins of equal weight and diameter. 3. Of equal quality, nine-tenths fine. 4. The weight of the present five-franc gold pieca to be the unit, with its multiples.