4 pieces table cloth 50 100 coils cord, wt. 62sh. 167. 2lb. 30 per shippound 1884 18 1951 bars Rus. iron, 362 8 10 14 5074 3 A bill is drawn in Copenhagen for 18574 marks, 7 stivers, Hamburgh money, when the exchange is 128 Danish dollars for 100 rix dollars in Hamburgh, how many Danish dollars does it amount to? m. NOTE. Three marks are equal to 1 rix dollar. r.d. If 3 : 1 :: r.d. D.d. r.d. sk. 18574 7 : 6191 46 In accounts, 12 Runstycks make 1 skilling, 48 skillings 1 Rix Dollar. The Banco dollar is 50 per cent. better than the current dollar. A late price current gives the exchange with London at 12 rix dollars for £1 sterling with Hamburg at 129 skillings per rix dollar Ham. Banco. Bills of Exchange are negotiated by sworn brokers, who are paid per cent. half by the drawer, and half by the purchaser, and no damage can be recovered on bills, returned protested, if not procured through sworn brokers. All China goods sold here must be under the direction of the East India Company, but Bengal goods and spices may be sold as any other merchandize. Weights-20 lbs. make 1 hispound, 20 lispounds = 1 shippound. 6 shippounds of 400 lb. each victual weight 400 each of iron =1 ton Eng. By which it appears that 1 lb. or 1 shippound victual weight is one fourth heavier than that of iron. The victual last is 12 ship. the iron last 15 shippounds. In Liquids 2 Stoops make 1 Kan, 100 Kans=69 gallons. In 1849 Sh. 19 Lis. 10 lbs. of iron, how many tons Eng. and what is the amount at £10 10s. per ton on board? Money. 1 Thaler (or thlr.) Prussian currency is reckoned for 24 Groschen, and 1 Groschen has 12 Pfennige. Course of Exchange on London in March, 1825, was 65 Thlr. for £1 ster. On Hamburgh, was 150 Thlr for 300 Marks Banco. 100 lbs. English give here Denmark 100 100 kilograms 108 lbs. 106 103 89 213 137 Ells of Stettin. 58 gallons of rum are reckoned 1 hogshead. 100 yards English are 100 1581 of Silesia. 1 Last of 72 Stettin scheffel, or bushels, gives about 14 English quarters. 110 lb. Stettin weight, is their Centner or hundred 1. What will 10,000 gallons S. Sea oil come to, allowing 7 lb. to a gallon, at 71⁄2 thlr. per centner? Ans. 4786 Th. 7 gr. 8 pf. 2. Sound Dues on 10,000 gallons of oil, at 1 thlr. 1 gr Ans. 21 Th. 16 gr. 9 pf. per 490 gallons? 3. Reduce thhr. 4228 11 10 Prussian currency, to sterling, at 65 th. per £. Ans. £618 16 1. RUSSIA. Accounts are kept in Petersburgh, in Rubles and Copecs, reckoning 100 copecs to 1 ruble. Their weights are Barquits, Poods, Pounds, and Zollotnicks In weights the ton of Exports is 63 poods, and the pood of Imports is 36 lbs. Avoir. 6 Barquits make a Last. A Chetwert is 46 bushels. Their long measure is the Arsheen, of 28 American inches: nine arsheens are equal to seven yards. 3 versts The Russian league 2 Eng. miles. 41 All commercial business is transacted in the paper Ruble. The value of which, compared with the silver Ruble, is stated in the commercial regulations for the time by the Secretary of State. In July, 1827 it was valued at 10 ster. Great care is necessary in preparing a ship's papers for St. Petersburgh, if there is a cargo on board, "As nothing can be more rigid than the execution of the Impost laws." 4997 arsheens flems 1700 do. drillings 2101 poods 25 lb. hemp rub. cop. 24 rubles per 50 arsheens 2398 80 RIGA. 578 6515 04 In accounts-80 farthings, or ps. make 1 Albert Rix dollar. They have an imaginary money called Groschins, 90 of which make a dollar, and it is in this, that exchange is made. In September, 1824, the rate on London was 292 Groschins, equal to 31 Alberts, for £1 ster. Weights-20 lbs. make .1 shippound, and 20 shippounds to 1 lispound, of 400 lbs. equal to 368 lbs. Eng. FRANCE. The money of account was formerly in Livres, Sous and Deniers. Accounts are now kept in Francs, of 100 Centimes each, equal to 182 cents. 5 Francs 100 Cents. The Franc is to the Livre, as to the United States dollar 80 to 81 16 to 3 =10d. Half of the sols or sous are pence sterling-20 sous = The Livres, less, are shillings24 Livres 20s. Rentes in French funds are terms used for the dividends or interest paid on loans raised for the use of Government;— thus 1000 francs in the 5 per cents, are called 50 francs of Rente-which is a term generally synonymous with income or interest. To change Francs to Federal Money. RULE. From of the sum in francs, deduct of the same-the remainder is the answer. EXAMPLE. Change 894 francs 84 centimes to Federal money at par. 1)894,48 Proof. $167,711 at 51 francs each. Ans. $167,711 fr. 894,48 To reduce Livres, &c. to Federal Money at par. RULE. Multiply the sum by 5, and divide the product by 27. |