The Silver Question

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Excerpt from The Silver Question: An AddressSection 15 provided for the coinage in silver of half dollars, quarter dollars and dimes, to be legal tender for all sums less than one dollar.Sec. 17 provided for the coinage of nickels and copper cents, to be legal tender to the amount of fifteen cents.Sec. 18 provided that no coins of gold or silver should thereafter be issued ex cept as in that act provided.The bill was taken up in the Senate Jan. 9, 1871, read in full, debated dur ing that day and the next, and passed by a vote of 36 to 13.It then went to the House and was re ferred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and printed as it had passed the Senate. On Feb. 25.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.