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Later on, a spur line was built from Lamy to Santa Fe, bringing the railroad to Santa Fe at last. In 1896 the Fred Harvey Company built the luxurious El Ortiz Hotel here, and was designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter. [12] Thus Lamy became an important railroad junction. The El Ortiz Hotel was then later demolished after its closing in 1947. [13]
Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt. [1] Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which, when offered ("tendered") in payment of a debt, extinguishes the debt. There is no obligation on the creditor to accept the ...
The Legal Tender Cases were two 1871 United States Supreme Court cases that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money. The two cases were Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis. The U.S. federal government had issued paper money known as United States Notes during the American Civil War, pursuant to the terms of the Legal Tender Act of 1862.
The Santa Fe Ring of lawyers and politicians, often in league with the Surveyors General, abused the adjudication system for their own benefit. [ 24 ] Among Catron's acquisitions was the 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2 ) Tierra Amarilla Land Grant .
The Santa Fe Ring was an informal group of powerful politicians, attorneys, and land speculators in territorial New Mexico from 1865 until 1912. The Ring was composed of newly-arrived Anglo Americans and opportunistic Hispanics from long-resident and prominent families in New Mexico.
A look at where the various court cases against President-elect Donald Trump stand, and how they may — or may not — be affected by his taking the oath of office on Jan. 20.
By the First Legal Tender Act, Congress limited the Treasury's emission of United States Notes to $150,000,000; however, by 1863, the Second Legal Tender Act, [9] enacted July 11, 1862, a Joint Resolution of Congress, [10] and the Third Legal Tender Act, [11] enacted March 3, 1863, had expanded the limit to $450,000,000, the option to exchange ...
Editor's note: The University of Georgia announced that Kirby Smart's father, Sonny Smart, died early Saturday morning. By almost any measurement, Georgia's Kirby Smart is one of the best coaches ...