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Hence for guaging or measuring casks, we have the following

RULE.

Multiply the length by the square of the mean diameter, then multiply by 34 for wine, and by 28 for beer measure, and point off in the product four decimal places. The product will then express gallons, and the decimals of a gallon.

72. How many wine gallons in a cask, whose bung diameter is 36 inches, head diameter 30 inches, and length 50 inches.

We first find the difference of the diameters, of which we take two thirds and add to the head diameter. We then multiply the square of the mean diameter, the length and 34 together, and point off four decimal places in the product.

OPERATION.
36-30=6

3 of 6 =4 30+4=34 342=1156

1156x50x34= 196,52 gal.

73. What is the number of beer gallons in the last example?

Ans.

74. How many wine, and how many beer gallons in a cask whose length is 36 inches, bung diameter 35 inches, and head diameter 30 inches? S 136 wine gal. Ans. {112 beer gal.

75. A stationer sold quills at 11s a thousand, by which he cleared of the money; but they growing scarce he raised the price to 13s 6d a thousand: what did he clear at the last price, on each £100 laid out?

Ans.

76. A water tub holds 147 gallons; the pipe usually brings in 14 gallons in 9 minutes: the tap discharges, at a medium, 40 gallons in 31 minutes. Now, supposing these to be left open, and the water to be turned on at 2 o'clock in the morning; a servant at 5 shuts the tap, and is solicitous to know in what time the tub will be filled in case the water continues to flow.

Ans. the tub will be full at 3 min. 48114sec. after 6.

FORMS RELATING TO BUSINESS.

FORMS OF ORDERS.

MESSRS. M. JAMES & Co.

Please pay John Thompson, or order,

five hundred dollars, and place the same to my account.

New York, June 1, 1833.

PETER WORTHY.

MR. JOSEPH RICH,

Please pay the bearer sixty-one dollars and twenty cents, in goods from your store, and charge the same to the account of your

Obedient Servant,

JOHN PARSONS.

New York, July 1, 1837.

FORMS OF RECEIPTS.

Receipt for Money on Account.

Received, New York, June 2nd, 1837, of John Ward, sixty dollars on account.

$60,00

JOHN P. FAY.

Receipt for Money on a Note.

Received, New York, June 5, 1837, of Leonard Walsh, six hundred and forty dollars, on his note for one thousand dollars, dated New York, January 1, 1837.

$640,00

J. N. WEEKS.

No. 1.

$25,50.

FORMS OF NOTES.

Negotiable Note.

New York, May 1, 1837.

For value received I promise to pay on demand, to Abel Bond, or order, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents. REUBEN HOLMES.

Note Payable to Bearer.

No. 2.

$875,39.

New York, May 2, 1837.

For value received I promise to pay, six months after date, to John Johns, or bearer, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-nine cents.

Note by two Persons.

PIERCE PENNY,

No. 3. $659,27.

New York, June 2, 1837.

For value received, we, jointly and severally, promise to pay to Richard Ricks, or order, on demand, six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents.

ENOS ALLAN.

JOHN ALLAN.

Note Payable at a Bank.

No. 4. $20,25.

New York, May 7, 1837.

Sixty days after date, I promise to pay John Anderson, or order, at the Bank of the United States, twenty dollars and twenty-five cents, for value received. JESSE STOKES.

Remarks relating to Notes.

1. The person who signs a note, is called the drawer or maker of the note: thus, Reuben Holmes is the drawer of note No. 1.

2. The person who has the rightful possession of a note, is called the holder of the note.

3. A note is said to be negotiable when it is made payable to A B, or order, (See No. I.) Now if Abel Bond to whom this note is made payable, writes his name on the back of it, he is said to endorse the note, and he is called the endorser; and when the note becomes due, the holder must first demand payment of the maker, Reuben Holmes, and if he declines paying it, the holder may then require payment of Abel Bond, the endorser.

4. If the note is made payable to A B, or bearer, then the drawer alone is responsible, and he must pay to any person who holds the note.

5. The time at which a note is to be paid should always be named, but if no time is specified, the drawer must pay when required to do so, and the note will draw interest after the payment is demanded.

6. When a note, payable at a future day, becomes due, it will draw interest, though no mention is made of interest. 7. In each of the States there is a rate of interest established by law, which is called the legal interest, and when no rate is specified, the note will always draw legal interest. If a rate higher than legal interest be taken, the drawer, in most of the States, is not bound to pay the

note.

8. If two persons jointly and severally give their note, (See No. 3) it may be collected of either of them.

9. The words "For value received," should be expressed in every note.

10. When a note is given, payable on a fixed day, and in a specific article, as in wheat or rye, payment must be offered at the specified time, and if it is not, the holder can demand the value in money.

A BOND FOR ONE PERSON, WITH A CONDITION.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I James Wilson of the City of Hartford and State of Connecticut am held and firmly bound unto John Pickens, of the Town of Waterbury, County of New Haven and State of Connecticut in the sum of Eighty dollars lawful money of the United States of America, to be paid to the said John Pickens his executors, administrators, or assigns: for which payment well and truly to be made I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with my Seal. Dated this Ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such, that if the above bounden James Wilson, his heirs, executors, or administrators, shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid, unto the above named John Pickens, his executors, administrators, or assigns, the just and full sum of

Here insert the condition.

then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain

in full force and virtue.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

John Frost,

Joseph Wiggins. S

James Wilson. L.S

NOTE. The part in Italic to be filled up according to circumstance.

If there is no condition to the bond then all to be omitted after the words "THE CONDITION, &c."

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