Laws for the issue of United States paper money
editAct of | Statute and title | Amount (authorized) | Type | Comments |
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Jul 1861 |
1712 Stat. 259 An act to authorize a national loan and for other purposes. |
Demand Note | ||
Aug 1861 |
512 Stat. 313 An act to authorize a national loan and for other purposes. |
Demand Note | ||
Feb 1862 |
2512 Stat. 345 An act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption or funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States. |
Legal Tender | xxxxxxx | |
Mar 1862 |
1712 Stat. 370 An act to authorize the purchase of coin and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1862 |
1112 Stat. 532 An act to authorize an additional issue of United States notes, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1862 |
1712 Stat. 592 An act to authorize payments in stamps, and to prohibit circulation of notes of less denomination than one dollar. |
Fractional currency | xxxxxxx | |
Jan 1863 |
1712 Stat. 822 Joint resolution to provide for the immediate payment of the Army and Navy of the United States. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1863 |
312 Stat. 709 An act to provide ways and means for the support of the Government. |
Legal Tender Interest Bearing Note Gold Certificate Fractional currency |
xxxxxxx | |
Jun 1864 |
313 Stat. 99 An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jun 1864 |
3013 Stat. 218 An act to provide ways and means for the support of the government, and for other purposes. |
Interest Bearing Note Fractional currency |
xxxxxxx | |
Mar 1865 |
313 Stat. 498 An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof.” |
Interest Bearing Note | xxxxxxx | |
Mar 1865 |
313 Stat. 498 An act to authorize the coinage of three-cent pieces, and for other purposes. |
Interest Bearing Note | xxxxxxx | |
Apr 1866 |
1214 Stat. 31 An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide ways and means to support the Government,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. |
xxxxxxx | ||
May 1866 |
1614 Stat. 47 An act to authorize the coinage of five-cent pieces. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Feb 1867 |
514 Stat. 383 An act to punish certain crimes in relation to the public securities and currency, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1867 |
2615 Stat. 6 An act to exempt Wrapping-Paper, made from wood or cornstalks, from Internal Tax, and for other Purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Feb 1868 |
415 Stat. 34 An act to suspend further reduction of the currency. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Feb 1869 |
1915 Stat. 270 An act to prevent loaning money upon United States notes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1869 |
1816 Stat. 1 An act to strengthen the public credit. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1870 |
1216 Stat. 251 An act to provide for the redemption of three per cent. Temporary loan certificates, and for an increase of national bank notes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jun 1874 |
2018 Stat. 123 An act fixing the amount of United States notes, providing for a redistribution of the national bank currency, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jun 1874 |
2318 Stat. 206 An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jan 1875 |
1418 Stat. 296 An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jan 1875 |
1918 Stat. 302 An act to remove the limitation restricting the circulation of banking-associations issuing notes payable in gold. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Feb 1875 |
818 Stat. 311 An act to amend existing customs and internal revenue laws, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1875 |
318 Stat. 372 An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Apr 1876 |
1719 Stat. 33 An act to provide for a deficiency in the Printing and Engraving Bureau of the Treasury Department, and for the issue of silver coin of the United States in place of fractional currency. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jun 1876 |
3019 Stat. 63 An act authorizing the appointment of receivers of national banks, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1876 |
2219 Stat. 215 Joint resolution of the issue of silver coin. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1877 |
319 Stat. 353 An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Feb 1878 |
2820 Stat. 25 An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender character. |
Silver Certificate | xxxxxxx | |
May 1878 |
3120 Stat. 87 An act to forbit the further retirement of United States legal-tender notes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jun 1878 |
820 Stat. 102 An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to constitute superintendents of mints or assayers in assay-offices, assistant treasurers of the United States. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1879 |
320 Stat. 383 An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jun 1879 |
2121 Stat. 30 An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1882 |
1222 Stat. 162 An act to enable national-banking associations to extend their corporate existence, and for other purposes. |
Gold Certificate | xxxxxxx | |
Aug 1886 |
424 Stat. 227 An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes. |
Silver Certificate | xxxxxxx | |
Mar 1887 |
324 Stat. 559 An act to amend sections five thousand one hundred and ninety-one and five thousand one hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statues of the United States, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1890 |
1426 Stat. 289 An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes. |
Treasury Note (1890–91) | xxxxxxx | |
Feb 1891 |
1026 Stat. 742 An act further to prevent counterfeiting or manufacture of dies, tools, or other implements used in counterfeiting, and providing penalties therefor, and providing for the issue of search warrants in certain cases. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1892 |
2827 Stat. 322 An act to amend the national bank act in providing for the redemption of national bank notes stolen from or lost by banks of issue. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Nov 1893 |
128 Stat. 4 An act to repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes.” |
xxxxxxx | ||
Aug 1894 |
1328 Stat. 278 An act to subject to State taxation national bank notes and United States Treasury notes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Jul 1898 |
130 Stat. 605 An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1899 |
330 Stat. 1264 An act to define and punish crimes in the District of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1900 |
1431 Stat. 45 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. |
Gold Certificate | xxxxxxx | |
Apr 1900 |
2331 Stat. 139 An act making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1901 |
331 Stat. 1448 An act to amend section fifty-one hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States. |
xxxxxxx | ||
Mar 1907 |
434 Stat. 1289 An act to amend the national banking act, and for other purposes. |
Gold Certificate | xxxxxxx | |
May 1908 |
3035 Stat. 546 An act to amend the national banking laws. |
xxxxxxx |