FRENCH WEST-INDIES. Accounts are kept in Livres, Sols, and Deniers. 12 deniers make 1 sol, and 20 sols 1 livre. The Spanish dollar passes in some places for 8 livres 5 sols, and in others for 9 livres. 1 cwt. or 112 lb. in the U. States is equal to 104 lb. French. 100 lb. French are equal to 108 lb. nearly, in the U. States. When any commodity is to be marked in French weight 4 per cent, is added to the neat hundreds ; thus a hogshead of fish weighing neat 10 cwt. is marked 1040 lb. Fish shipped from the United States will answer to the weight thus marked, provided it comes out in good order, and the cask weighs exactly the customary tare, which is 10 per cent. 100 lb. of coffee or cotton, bought in the French islands, will, or ought to weigh 108 lb. (it will often weigh 110 lb.) in the United States; and as these articles are sold here per lb. there is a gain of 8 to 10 per cent. in the weight. But on sugar, which is bought for 100lb. and sold here per 112, there is a loss of 6 per cent. because there is 4 per cent. between the American cwt. and 100 lb. French, and 2 per cent. difference in the tare. The tare on brown sugar in the French islands being 10 per cent. and the American tare 12 per cwt. loss on clayed sugar is greater, occasioned by the customary tare, which is but 7 per cent. in the French islands, whereas it is here 12 per cent. the same as on brown sugar. The NOTE. The tare allowed on sugar among merchants is 12 per 112; that allowed by the custom-house is 12 per 100. [See Tare and Tret, page 95] ...... 1. Change 10692 livres to dollars, at 8 livres per dollar. 2. Change 7713 livres to dollars, at 9 livres per dollar. 9)7713 Ans. S57 dollars. In 1296 dollars, at 8 livres each, how many livres ? 1296 10368 324 Ans. 10692 livres. 4. 857 dollars, at 9 livres each, how many livres ? 857 Ans. 7713 livres. 5. What will 16421b. of coffee come to at 15 sols 1642 8210 1642 210)246310 sols. livres 1231 10 Ans. 1231 liv. 10 sols, 6. 1780 lb. cotton at 157 livres 10 sols per 100 lb, 24 barrels of beef at 101 liv. 1 sol 3 den. per barrel. 8. 606 7 6 4 2425 10 0 Ans. 2425 liv. 10 sols. How many dollars, at 8 livres 5 sols per dol. will pay for 12 hhds. of brown sugar, weighing 13365 lb. at 40 liv. per 100lb 9. A cargo, amounting to 12536 dols. in the United States is sold at 12 per cent. advance on the invoice; how many livres will it amount to, estimating the dollar at 8} livres cach ? 1212536 invoice. 10. 11. 12. 6 hhds. coffee, weighing 4471 lb. at 14 6 per lb... 16477.... 38 liv. per 100 227....150 .... do. 340 10 0 20. 32670 gals. do. at 731.7 s. 9d. per tierce of 60 gals. .... SPANISH WEST-INDIES. Accounts are kept in Havanna, Laguira, Vera Cruz, &c. in dollars and reals, reckoning 8 reals to a dollar. The Spanish arobe is 25 lb. 1. What will 123 pieces Bretagnes come to, at 26 reals per piece? 4. 1338 6 Ans. 1338 dols. 6 reals. What is the commission on 14792 dollars 5 reals, at 4 per cent. ? 14792 5 591/70 4 5164 Ans. 591 dols. 5 reals. 5. What will 42 bbls. of white sugar come to, weighing gross 415 arobes 18 lb. tare and tret on the whole 858 lb, at 26 reals per arobe? ar. lb. 9. 10. 11. 147 arobes of butter.. 25 do. per 100 lb. 2405 arobes 19lb. sugar 25 reals per arobe 1660 do...12.. do. 12. 16695 feet boards 918 6 7518 O 21 •••• 40 dols. per M. do. do. 4358 7 |