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The Act constantly speaks of these two as equivalent expressions, thus seeming to show that “bills of credit,” in their true meaning, were what is familiarly called “paper money,” with the incidents of such money.
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Sumner discusses the interpretation of 'bills of credit' as equivalent to 'paper money' in legal terms.
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