Legal Tender Notes Public Deposited
The name given to a series of paper money first issued by an Act of Congress of the United States in 1862. They have been issued in denominations from $5.00 to $10,000.00, and are a Legal Tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and in- terest on the public debt.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)