408.010. Silver a legal tender.

Silver a legal tender.

408.010. The silver coins of the United States are herebydeclared a legal tender, at their par value, fixed by the laws ofthe United States, and shall be receivable in payment of alldebts, public or private, hereafter contracted in the state ofMissouri; provided, however, that no person shall have the rightto pay, upon any one debt, dimes and half dimes to an amountexceeding ten dollars, or of twenty and twenty-five cent piecesexceeding twenty dollars.

(RSMo 1939 § 3359)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2972; 1919 § 7100; 1909 § 8099