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UNITED STATES.

tries. All other money transactions may be, and mostly are, in paper currency.

Weights and Measvees.

British -weights and measures are usually employed, but the old Winch gallon and bushel are used instead of the new or imperial standards. They

are: —

Wine gallon = 0-83333 gallon. Ale gallon. = 1-01695 „ Bushel. = 0-9692 imperial bushel. Instead of the British cwt. a quintal, or Centner, of 100 pounds is used.

Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning- the United

States.

1. Official Publications.

Acts of Congress relating to Loans and the Currency from 1842 to 1870 in- clusive. 8. New York, 1870.

Agriculture of the United States in I860, compiled from the original returns of the Eighth Census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent of the Census, 4. Washington, 1865.

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, made to the President of the United States. 8. pp. 40. Wa-hington, 1869.

Circular from the General Land Offices issued March 10, 1869. 8. pp. 25. Washington, 1869.

Commercial Relations. Report of the 3 f S :te on the Commercial

Relations of the Unite 3 sign Countries for the year ended Sep-

tember 30, 1869. 8. Washington, 1869.

Commerce of the United States. Statistics of the Foreign and Do:. Commerce of the United States. 8. Washington. 1869.

Manufactures of the United State- in I860. Compiled from the original returns of the eighth census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 4. Washington, 1866.

Message of the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the forty-first Congress. 8. pp. 54. Washington, 1869.

Navy Register of the United States to July 1, 1870. Printed by order of the Secretary of the Navy. 8. pp. 80. Washington. 1870.

Report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue upon the industry, trade, commerce, &c. of the United States, for the year 1S69. 8. pp. 131. Washington, 1869.

Report of the Commis a dture for 1868. 8. Washington. 1869.

Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an Appendix containing Reports from ^69.


 * rv of the Treasury on the state of the Finances for the

gton, 1869.

Report of the Secretary of War upon the operation of the War department for the 8. pp. 33. Washington, 1869.

TL ! Statutes at larg es of the United States of America. Collated

with the originals at Washington. By authority. Published annually. 8. 1 nrt by Mx. Burnley, British Secretary of Legation, on the Iron and Steel