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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) | 21 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gold standard act. (search)
Gold standard act.
The bill in the fifty-sixth Congress, first session, entitled, An act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, as reported from the conference committee of the two Houses, passed the Senate March 6, 1900, by a party vote of 44 to 26 (one Democrat, Mr. Lindsay, of Kentucky, supporting the bill, and one Republican, Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, voting against it), and the House of Representatives March 13, by a vote of 166 yeas to 120 nays, ten members present and not voting.
The President signed the bill March 14.
By this act the dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold, nine-tenths fine, shall be the standard of value, and all forms of money issued or coined shall be maintained at a parity of value with this gold standard.
The United States notes and treasury notes shall be redeemed in gold coin, a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)