Lane County v. Oregon
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Oregon.. The case was this: Congress, February,'1862, authorized the issue of $15(ty 000,000 in notes of the United States, and enacted that they should “be receivable in payment of all taxes, internal duties, levies, debts, and demands due to the United States, .except duties, ón imports; and of all claims, and demands of any kind whatever against the.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Oregon.. The case was this: Congress, February,'1862, authorized the issue of $15(ty 000,000 in notes of the United States, and enacted that they should “be receivable in payment of all taxes, internal duties, levies, debts, and demands due to the United States, .except duties, ón imports; and of all claims, and demands of any kind whatever against the. United States, except interest on bonds and .notes, which shall be paid in coin; and shall, .also be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court. Two propositions have been pressed upon our attention, ábly and earnestly, in behalf of the plaintiff in error.
The first of them will be first considered.
The answer avers, substantially, that the money tendered was part of the first' moneys collected in Lane County after the assessment of 1863, and the demurrer admits the truth of the answer.
The fact therefore may be taken as established, that the taxes for that year, in Lane County, were collected in United States notes.
But was this'in conformity,with.the laws of Oregon?
In this court the…
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