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REDUCTION OF FOREIGN MONEY.

BREMEN RIX DOLLARS REDUCED TO DOLLARS AND CENTS.
As fixed by Law.

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FREIGHTS. QUANTITY OF GOODS WHICH COMPOSE A TON.

FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE NEW YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

That the articles, the bulk of which shall compose a ton, to equal a TON of heavy materials, shall be in weight as follows: 1,568 lbs. of coffee in casks, 1,830 lbs. in bags; 1,120 lbs. of cocoa in casks, 1,307 lbs. in bags.

952 lbs. pimento in casks, 1,110 in bags. Eight barrels of flour, 196 lbs. each.

Six barrels of beef, pork, tallow, pickled fish, pitch, tar and turpentine.

Twenty hundred pounds of pig and bar iron, potashes, sugar, logwood, fustic, Nicaragua wood, and all heavy dyewoods, rice, honey, copper ore, and all other heavy goods.

Sixteen hundred pounds of coffee, cocoa, and dried codfish, in bulk, and 1,200 pounds of dried codfish in casks of any size.

Six hundred pounds of ship bread in casks, 700 in bags, and 800 in bulk.

Two hundred gallons (wine measure), reckoning the full contents of the casks, oil, wine, brandy, or any kind of liquors.

Twenty-two bushels of grain, peas, or beans, in casks.
Thirty-six bushels of grain in bulk.

Thirty-six bushels of European salt. Thirty-one bushels of West India salt. Twenty-nine bushels of sea-coal.

Forty feet (cubic measure) of mahogany, square timber, oak plank, pine, and other boards, beavers, furs, peltry, beeswax, cotton wool, and bale goods of all kinds.

One hogshead of tobacco, and 1,000 pounds of dry hides.

Eight hundred pounds of China raw silk, 1,000 pounds of net bohea,

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Dollar of Central America, uncertain.

Dollar of Mexico, 8 reals (varying from 95 to 100).

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Rix dollar of Berlin and Saxony

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Rix dollar of Batavia.

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Thaler of Prussia, Saxony, Brunswick and Hesse Cassel. .

68

Thaler of Leipzig and Hanover.

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Florins and guilders of Nuremburg, St. Gall, Frankfort,
Netherlands, Bavaria, Brazil, Baden, Amsterdam and
Rotterdam

Florins and guilders of Austria, Trieste, Bohemia, Leipzig,
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Real Vellon of Plate

Pistareen (4 real vellons of Spain)

Pound of British Provinces.

Pound of Jamaica, Turks Island, and Honduras

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Foreign gold and silver coins are not legal tender with us. One-cent pieces are legal tender for amounts not exceeding ten cents; three cents, not exceeding thirty cents; all United States silver coins, for amounts not exceeding five dollars; and gold coins at their

GOLD COINS WITH THEIR WEIGHT AND VALUE. 24 grains equal 1 pennyweight, 20 penny weights 1 ounce, 12 ounces 1 pound.

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GOLD COINS WITH THEIR WEIGHT AND VALUE.

24 grains equal 1 pennyweight, 20 penny weights 1 ounce, 12 ounces 1 pound.

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