Financial History of the United StatesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1918 - 544 strani |
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ad valorem administration amount annual appropriations authorized bank-notes Bolles bonds capital cent certificates Chase circulation coin coinage colonies commercial committee Congress Constitution contraction customs declared demand demand notes deposits direct tax dollars duties Econ England excise expenditures exports favor federal Finance Report fiscal follows foreign Gallatin gold greenbacks Hamilton History House important income increased indebtedness industry internal revenue issue June 30 land legal tender legal-tender notes legislation loans manufactures Massachusetts measure ment monetary Morrill tariff national banks paper money party period political premium president principle protection protectionist public debt purchase Quar question receipts redeem redemption reduction Republican reserve resumption secretary secured Senate Sherman silver sinking fund South Carolina specie circular specie payments surplus tariff tariff of 1842 taxation tion Total trade treasury department treasury notes United States notes veto vols vote W. G. Sumner
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Stran 49 - ... person be .allowed to serve in the office of president more than one year in any term of three years; to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the United States...
Stran 84 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Stran 31 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Stran 50 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article — of sending and receiving ambassadors — entering into treaties and alliances: Provided, That no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation...
Stran 492 - Rather than having one central bank in the political capital, as in central banking systems of most countries, the Federal Reserve System is divided into 12 districts, each with a Federal Reserve Bank— in Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Cleveland. Richmond. Atlanta. Chicago. St. Louis. Minneapolis. Kansas City. Dallas, and San Francisco.
Stran 204 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Stran 151 - States, to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or treasury notes, or notes of the bank of the United States as by law provided and declared, or in notes of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States...
Stran 228 - States as aforesaid, ought to be collected or received otherwise than in the legal currency of the United States, or Treasury notes, or notes of the Bank of the United States, or in notes- of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States.
Stran 159 - If the States may tax one instrument employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail ; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent...
Stran 465 - We favor the associated policy of reciprocity so directed as to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce, in return for free foreign markets.