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† ˈpost-note U.S. Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. post- A. 1 b + note.]
A note made and issued by a bank or banking association, payable not to bearer but to order, not on demand but at a future specified date, and designed as part of its circulating medium.
Issued by the banks of some of the states of U.S. during the period between 1781 and 1863.
1791Jefferson in Harper's Mag. (1885) Mar. 534/2 Recd from bank a post note..for 1162/3 D. 1807(Oct.) Statutes of Connecticut (1808) I. 98 Be it enacted..That the several incorporated banks in this state be..authorized to issue post-notes, payable to order and at a time subsequent to the issuing of the same. 1824(Dec. 24) Laws of Alabama 25 margin, The issue of Post-Notes authorized. 1839C. Raguet Currency & Banking 112 note, The banks of New York are prohibited from issuing post-notes. 1848(June 5) Barbour's Repts. [N.Y. Supreme Court] 222 Post-notes issued by banking associations having been decided to be absolutely illegal. 1862Merchants' Mag. Dec. 509 The Treasury had become a bank of deposit and of circulation for irredeemable paper money, and could issue one-year certificates, answering to old United States Bank ‘post notes’, without stint or limit. 1896H. White Money & Banking 368 Some of the States had laws forbidding the issue of post notes, but they were evaded by the device of lending notes on [certain conditions]. 1896W. G. Sumner Hist. Banking in U.S. 79, 234, 268, 296. |
