1. Two things of a kind are often called a pair, and six things set; as a pair of horses, a set of chairs, spoons, etc.

383. The terms folio, quarto, octavo, etc., indicate the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper

is folded.

And 1 sheet of paper makes

4 pp. (pages).

8 " 16"

8

66

Clerks and copyists are usually paid by the folio for making copies of legal papers, records, and documents.

72 words make 1 folio, or sheet of common law.

90

66

1

66

chancery.

384. 1. How many seconds in min.? In min. ? 2. How many minutes in 120 sec.? In 180 sec.?

3. How many hours in 90 min.? In 200 min.?

4. How many hours in 2 da.? In 3 da. ? In 5 da.? 5. How many hours from 6 A. M. to 5 P. M.?

6. In 4 wk. 3 da., how many days? In 5 wk. 4 da. ? 7. How many minutes from 10 min. past 9 o'clock to 25 min. past 10 A. M.?

8. How much time from 20 minutes before 11 A. M. to half past 10 o'clock P. M.?

9. Which of the months have 30 da. each? 31 da. each? 10. How many days from Jan. 1 to March 5, inclusive ? 11. How many days from May 10 to July 16, inclusive? 12. Which of the following are leap years, and which are common years: 1874? 1876? 1880? 1886? 1900? 13. How many centuries and years since the birth of Christ ?

14. How many leap years in every century?

15. How many degrees in a circle? In? In? In f? 16. How many geographic miles in 2°? In 3°? In 4° ? 17. How many common miles in 6 geographic miles ? 18. How many degrees in 360 nautical miles? 19. How many degrees in a quadrant? In a sextant? 20. How many degrees in of a circumference? 21. What part of a circumference are 60°? 90°? 180°? 22. How many dozens in 24 gross? In 33 gro.? 23. How many dozens in of a great gross? In ? 24. How many score in 100? Pairs in 50? 25. In 1 B. of paper, how many reams?

Sets in 75?

How many

quires?

26. How many eggs in 5 dozen? In 12 doz. and ?? 27. How many quires of paper in a ream? In 34 rm.? 28. How many years in 4 score years and 10?

29. How many sheets of paper will be required to make a 12mo book of 320 pages? Of 480 pages?

30. How many sheets will be required to make a quarto book of 144 pages? Of 240 pp.? Of 360 pp.?

31. How many 16mo books will the paper for 1 quarto book make?

MEASURES OF VALUE.

385. Money is the measure of the value of things, and is used as a medium of exchange in trade.

386. Specie or Coin is metal struck, stamped, or pressed with a die, to give it a fixed legal value, and authorized by Government to be used as money.

387. Paper Money consists of bills and notes duly authorized by Government to circulate as substitutes for, or representatives of, money.

388. Currency is a term applied to all kinds of money employed in trade and commerce, both of coin and paper.

389. A Mint is a place in which the coin of a country or government is manufactured.

390. An Alloy is a metal compounded with another of greater value. In coinage, the less valuable or baser metal is not reckoned of any value.

Gold and silver, in a pure state, are too soft for coinage; hence they are hardened by compounding them with an alloy of baser metal, while their color and other valuable qualities are not impaired.

UNITED STATES MONEY.

391. United States Money is the legal currency of the United States, and is sometimes called Federal Money.

392. The Unit of U. S. Money is the Gold Dollar.

Federal money was adopted by Congress in 1786. Previous to this, pounds, shillings, and pence were in use.

the mill.

There is no coin for

393. The Coin of the United States consists of gold, silver, nickel, and bronze, and is as follows:

394. Gold. The double-eagle, eagle, half-eagle, quarter-eagle, three-dollar and one-dollar pieces.

395. Silver. The Trade-dollar, one-dollar, half-dollar, quarter-dollar, twenty-cent, and the ten-cent pieces. 396. Nickel. The five-cent, and three-cent pieces. 397. Bronze. The one-cent piece.

1. The half-dime and three-cent pieces, the bronze two-cent, and the nickel one-cent pieces are no longer coined.

2. The Trade-dollar weighs 420 grains, and is designed solely for purposes of commerce and not for currency. The legal-tender dollar weighs 412} grains.

3. The Standard purity of the gold and silver coins is, 9 parts (.9) pure metal, and 1 part (.1) alloy. The alloy for gold coins is silver and copper, the silver, by law, not to exceed of the whole alloy. The alloy of silver coins is pure copper.

4. The five and three cent pieces consist of 3 parts (.75) copper, and 1 part (.25) nickel.

5. The one cent piece consists of .95 copper, and .05 of zinc and tin.

CANADA MONEY.

398. Canada Money is the legal currency of the Dominion of Canada, and is a decimal currency.

The denominations are dollars, cents, and mills, and have the same nominal value as the corresponding denominations of U. S. Money. 399. The Coin of the Dominion of Canada is silver and bronze 400. The Silver Coins are the fifty-cent, twenty-five-cent, ten-cent, and five-cent pieces.

401. The Bronze Coin is the one-cent piece.

1. The gold coins in use are the Sovereign and the Half-Sovereign. 2. The intrinsic value of the 50-cent piece in United States coin is about 46 cents, of the 25-cent piece 23 cents. In ordinary business transactions, they pass the same as United States coin.

ENGLISH MONEY.

402. English or Sterling Money is the legal currency of Great Britain.

403. The Unit of Eng. Money is the Pound Sterling.

1 12 48

1= 4

The value of a Sovereign in United States money is $4.8665. The character for pound (£) is written before integers; 5 pounds = £5.

404. The Coin of Great Britain in general use consists of gold, silver, and copper, as follows:

405. Gold. The sovereign and half-sovereign.

406. Silver. The crown, half-crown, florin, shilling, six

penny, and three-penny piece.

407. Copper. The penny, half-penny, and farthing.