Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances, with AppendicesTreasury Department, 1863 - Finance, Public |
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Page 53
... free from the operations of the great regulating law of supply and demand . Where money is abundant it is cheap , where scarce it is dear ; and no legislation has been able to control the effect of this general law . There is no ...
... free from the operations of the great regulating law of supply and demand . Where money is abundant it is cheap , where scarce it is dear ; and no legislation has been able to control the effect of this general law . There is no ...
Page 74
... free labor and the development of the resources of the old slave States under the new system , together with the advantages to trade and business resulting from an equal currency , securing to each portion of the country the proper ...
... free labor and the development of the resources of the old slave States under the new system , together with the advantages to trade and business resulting from an equal currency , securing to each portion of the country the proper ...
Page 102
... free consultation of the heads of bureaus , by General Order No. 165 , War Depart- ment , June 5 , 1863. For a considerable period after the passage of the law , disbursing officers , under instructions from the military bureaus , were ...
... free consultation of the heads of bureaus , by General Order No. 165 , War Depart- ment , June 5 , 1863. For a considerable period after the passage of the law , disbursing officers , under instructions from the military bureaus , were ...
Page 104
... free from anxiety respecting their official tenure , so long as they faithfully discharge their duties . The government cannot now afford to retain indifferent or only average men in these positions , nor should it compel the service of ...
... free from anxiety respecting their official tenure , so long as they faithfully discharge their duties . The government cannot now afford to retain indifferent or only average men in these positions , nor should it compel the service of ...
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... FREE 24 Hospital . 3.00 317 16 134 65 172 4 60 22 .do . 3.50 331 50 118 25 103 65 571 6.00 18 00 13 464 13 788 13 577 11 733 82 22 .do .. 3.50 399 00 3.98 402 98 789 50 11 .do . 3.50 306 00 72-50 91 55 4 69 474 74 Stonington , ( no ...
... FREE 24 Hospital . 3.00 317 16 134 65 172 4 60 22 .do . 3.50 331 50 118 25 103 65 571 6.00 18 00 13 464 13 788 13 577 11 733 82 22 .do .. 3.50 399 00 3.98 402 98 789 50 11 .do . 3.50 306 00 72-50 91 55 4 69 474 74 Stonington , ( no ...
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Page 47 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 97 - ... of any State, or to his duly authorized agents, the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred by such State for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting its troops employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection against the United States, to be settled upon proper vouchers to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury.
Page 200 - ... of an ounce. The method is preferable to expressing the weight in grains for commercial purposes, and corresponds better with the terms of the mint. It may be readily transferred to weight in grains by the following rule: — Remove the decimal point; from one-half deduct four per cent.