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- Title: Mechanics' and Traders' Bank v. Union Bank
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1874
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 83 KB
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ERROR to the Supreme Court of Louisiana; the case being thus: The State of Louisiana, as is known, during the late rebellion joined the rebel forces. On or about the 29th of April, 1862, however, the government forces under General Butler–then in command of the conquering and occupying army, and commissioned to carry on the war in the Department of the Gulf, a department which included Louisiana–took possession of New Orleans. At the time of his thus occupying the city, the only money then circulating there was notes issued by the rebel confederacy; 'Confederate notes.' In the confusion of things for a few days after the capture, it did not appear plainly to the people generally what would be done about these notes, and there being no other sort of money whatever in general circulation, General Butler, on the 1st of May, 1862, in the necessities of the case, issued a proclamation allowing the circulation of them 'until further orders.' On the day following, by general order, he established a court. The powers of the court were not defined otherwise than by the order establishing it. The order said:
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