The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page xiii
... unlimited coinage of silver , it does not expressly provide for the unlimited legal tender of the coin . It authorises the mint to be opened for any quantity of silver to be coined into ' current silver coins of this King- dom , ' but ...
... unlimited coinage of silver , it does not expressly provide for the unlimited legal tender of the coin . It authorises the mint to be opened for any quantity of silver to be coined into ' current silver coins of this King- dom , ' but ...
Page xiv
... unlimited coinage and tender . Such a decree could better have been issued in 1873 , supported by the views above recorded of Wellington , the intimate colleague of Peel , with the above - mentioned clause of the Act of 1816 in force ...
... unlimited coinage and tender . Such a decree could better have been issued in 1873 , supported by the views above recorded of Wellington , the intimate colleague of Peel , with the above - mentioned clause of the Act of 1816 in force ...
Page xv
... unlimited legal tender coins . But a compromise appears to have been effected on both points by leaving it to the Crown to re - open the mint at any time for the unlimited coinage of silver , and by ordering a mint charge to be ...
... unlimited legal tender coins . But a compromise appears to have been effected on both points by leaving it to the Crown to re - open the mint at any time for the unlimited coinage of silver , and by ordering a mint charge to be ...
Page 17
... unlimited legal tender in England , the price of silver in London is of necessity chiefly dependent on the requirements for it in the foreign exchanges ; and , therefore , before discussing the possibility of any law being able to ...
... unlimited legal tender in England , the price of silver in London is of necessity chiefly dependent on the requirements for it in the foreign exchanges ; and , therefore , before discussing the possibility of any law being able to ...
Page 22
... unlimited legal tender , Parliament has not really any consti- tutional right to legislate on the subject , for the mint is constitutionally under the control of the Crown . It was for this , and other reasons mentioned in the following ...
... unlimited legal tender , Parliament has not really any consti- tutional right to legislate on the subject , for the mint is constitutionally under the control of the Crown . It was for this , and other reasons mentioned in the following ...
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