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Note. The value of a dollar in any state is found, either oppofite to

that ftate, or under it in the table.

EXAMPLE S.

What is the value of 4207. South Carolina currency, in

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2 What is the value of a bill of 7507. Pennsylvania, or other like currency, in New York, or North Carolina currency?

answer 800l. 3 What sum of New York currency is equal to 173l. 165. in New Jersey?

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answer 1851 75 8d.2

Philadelphia, 28th 12mo. 1820.

Exchange for 3751. Pennsylvania currency, Thisty days after sight, pay to Charles Jackson, or or der, three hundred seventy-five pounds Pennsylvania currency, as per advice from thy friend,

To Benjamin Brown,

Merchant, Virginia.

Peter Simpson.

How much Virginia currency will discharge the above bill? answer 3001.

5 B, of Massachusetts, received, in Pennsylvania currency, the following sums, viz. 76 175 8d.-200l. and 170l. 10s id. What sum is equal thereto in the state he resides? answer 3571 18s 10d. 6 How much South Carolina currency is equal to 1500l. of New Jersey? answer 9331 6s 8d. 7 A merchant in New York owes 240l. to a planter in Virginia; how much ought he to be charged with in the planter's books?

answer 1801.

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New York, 4th 1mo. 1820.

Exchange for 5621 135 8d.

Twelve days after sight please to pay to David Davis, or order, five hundred and sixty-two pounds, thirteen shillings, and eight pence, value received; and place the same to account, as per advice from thy friend,

To Bradshaw Waters.

Isaac Jones.

What sum, Georgia currency, will discharge this bill? answer 3281 4s 7d5 9 C, of Connecticut, draws on D, of Delaware, for 1041. 16s 9d. what sum in the latter currency will pay this draught?

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10 What sum, New York currency, is equal to 180l. in Massachusetts money?

ansaver 2401. 11 How much South Carolina currency is equal to 360l. Massachusetts money?

answer 280l. 12 A bill of exchange for 4751. being remitted from Georgia to New Jersey; what is the value of it in Jersey currency? answer 7631 75 10d. 13 If 4721 16s 8d. be transmitted from Georgia to North Carolina; what sum is it equal to in the latter state? answer 810l. 11s 5d. 14 How much Virginia currency will purchase a bill for

answer 360l.

280l. South Carolina currency? 15 What is 961 16s 9d. of Charlestown, South Caro

lina, worth in New York?

answer 166/ os 3d.

16 Reduce 36791/ 145 4d. of New York to New Jersey facit 344921 4s 8d. 1

currency.

CASE 2.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Accounts are kept in England, Ireland, and the West India Islands, in pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings: though their intrinsic values, in these places, are different.

TABLE of different MONIES.

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RULE.

The various operations, in the exchanging of monies, are performed by the single Rule of Three, or by Practice.

Note. The par of Exchange between the United States of America and moft other trading countries, may be afcertained by the tables in page 13.

EXAMPLES.

Philadelphia is indebted to London 1474/ 16s, currency; what sterling sum must be remitted, when the exchange is at 64 per cent.?

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2 London receives a bill of exchange from Philadelphia, for 9431 175 5d. sterling; for how much currency was it drawn, exchange being at 64 percent ?

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