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VI.

TABLE FOR ASCERTAINING THE NUMBER OF DAYS FROM ANY DAY IN THE YEAR, TO ANY OTHER DAY.

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To the given day of each month add the tabular number for the month, and subtract the less sum from the greater.

If the two dates are in different years, subtract the result thus found, from 365.

In leap years, add 1 to the number after the 28th of February.

EXAMPLE.

How many days from Feb. 13, to Oct. 29, 1844?

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The guinea is equivalent to $5.113 in gold, and the sove

reign or pound, to $4.87 in gold, or $4.35 in silver. The nominal par is $4.444.

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A franc is equal to 191 cents in gold, or 184 cents in silver. Before the Revolution, the money was divided as follows:

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The Spanish dollar of silver, is of the same value as the American dollar; the dollar of gold is 98 cents.

The coin

of plate is silver; vellon is the old copper coin of Castile, and is of but half the value.

PORTUGAL.

1000 rees

make 1 milree.

400 rees

make 1 crusado of exchange.

The milree is equal to $1.31 in gold, or $1.12 in silver.

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The florin is equal to $0.40 in silver. Accounts are still sometimes kept in Flemish

money, the denominations of

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make 1 pound.

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The silver dollar, coined before 1813, was equivalent to The new, or Rigsbank dollar, is worth but 52

$1.04.

cents.

HAMBURGH.

12 pfenings
16 schillings lubs

3 marcs

make 1 sol or schilling lubs.
make 1 marc.

make 1 rix dollar.

The marc current is about 29 cents; the marc banco, about 35 cents, but the currency is exceedingly fluctuating. Lubs denotes the money of Lubec. In exchanges, accounts are frequently kept in Flemish money.

NORWAY.

120 skillings make 1 species dollar.

The species dollar of silver is equivalent to $1.05. There are no coins of gold.

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The bank rouble = about 22 cents. The silver rouble = 81 cents. The gold half Imperial, or 5 rouble piece= $3.97.

12 pfenings

30 silver groschen

PRUSSIA.

make 1 silver groschen
make 1 thaler.

The thaler of silver is equivalent to 693 cents. Gold coins are bought and sold as merchandise.

AUSTRIA.

4 pfenings

60 creutzers

1 florins

2 florins

make 1 creutzer.

make 1 florin.

make 1 rix dollar of account. make 1 rix dollar specie.

The silver rix dollar is equal to 962 cents. legal tender, but circulates only as merchandise.

Gold is not

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The ducat is of the same value as that of Naples.

VENICE AND GENOA.

100 centesimi make 1 lira Italiana.

The lira Italiana is equivalent in value to the franc.

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The pezzo is equivalent to 90 cents in silver.

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The piastre is worth about 8 cents, but its value is exceedingly variable.

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make 1 anna.

make 1 rupee.

make 1 gold mohur.

The gold mohur is equivalent to $8.08;—the Sicca rupee of silver, to 47 cents;-the current rupee, to about 41 cents. The cowrie is a species of shell. A lac is 100000. A crore is 100 lacs.

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The tael is a weight, about equivalent to 1 oz. 4 dwt. 4 gr., Troy. The tael of silver is usually estimated at $1.48.

By an Act of Congress, the following coins are rendered current in the United States.

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The gold coins of Great Britain, Portugal, and Brazil, of not less than 22 carats fine, at 94,8 cents per pennyweight. The gold coins of France, fine, at 93 cents per pennyweight.

The gold coins of Spain, Mexico, and Columbia, of the fineness of 20 carats 3 grains, at 89 cents per pennyweight.

The silver dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili, and Central America, of not less weight than 415 grains each, and those re-stamped in Brazil, of the like weight, and of not less fineness than 10 oz. 15 dwt. in the Troy pound, of standard silver, at $1.00 each.

The Five-franc piece of France, when of not less fineness than 10 oz. 16 dwt. in the Troy pound, of standard silver,

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