Newberry Library - National Council, Tahlequah: Act Authorizing Issue of Bills (photocopy), (Kutsche 5579), Thomas Lee Ballenger archaeological artifacts, May 2, 1862

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Open book National Council, Tahlequah: Act Authorizing Issue of Bills (photocopy), (Kutsche 5579), Thomas Lee Ballenger archaeological artifacts, May 2, 1862

Title National Council, Tahlequah: Act Authorizing Issue of Bills (photocopy), (Kutsche 5579), Thomas Lee Ballenger archaeological artifacts, May 2, 1862

Date May 2, 1862

Language English

Subjects Cherokee Nation, Indians of North America

Description Correspondence and writings of author, educator, and historian Thomas Lee Ballenger; photographs, legal papers, and documents of the Cherokee Indians, their territory, and prominent individuals who contributed to Oklahoma's history; genealogical materials including detailed tables, charts, and diagrams of individual Cherokee families; and extensive collections of archaeological artifacts.

User-Contributed Transcription An Act authorizing the issuing of Bills for the purposes of change and prohibiting the issuing and circulation of shin plasters.1 Be it enacted by the National Council that the Treasurer of the Nation be and he is hereby authorized to retain in the Treasuryof the Confederate notes on hand the sum of twenty thousand dollars and in lieu thereof to issue notes of the denominations offifty cents, on dollar, two dollars, and five dollars or such proportion as he may deem best and which notes shall be redeemedby him on presentation at his office out of the Confederate notes so retained in the Treasury whenever such notes shall be presentedto the amount of twenty dollars, fifty dollars,one hundred dollars or above that sum in like denominations.2. Be it further Enacted that in order to carry out the objects of this Act the Treasurer is authorized to have struck off on suitablepaper the foregoing notes, which previous to being put into circulation shall be signed by the Treasurer, and he shall be requiredto keep in his office a correct account of all notes so issued by him.3. Be it further Enacted that it shall not be lawful after the passage of this act for individuals to issue individual notes or shin plastersdesigned for general circulation as change or substitute for money under the penalty of being fined for each and every such offencein a sum not less than five dollars no more than two hundred dollars, and the District Courts shall have jurisdiction over all such offences and

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Archival Collection Title Thomas Lee Ballenger papers

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Call Number Ayer Modern MS Ballenger Box 5 Folder 122

BibID 991818028805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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