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 MONEY, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES — REPRESENTATIVES 499

Money, Weights, and Measures.

The dollar of 100 cents is of the par value of 4932d., or 48665 dollars to the pound sterling.

The monetary unit, in accordance with the monetary law of March 14, 1900, is the gold dollar of 25 8 grains (or 1-6718 gramme) '900 fine. The Government undertakes to maintain parity between gold and silver coin, and a fund of 150,000,000 dollars in gold has been established for the repayment of United States notes and Treasury notes in gold at sight.

Gold coins in common use are 20, 10 and 5-dollar pieces called double eagles, and half-eagles. The eagle weighs 258 grains or 16 71818 grammes 900 fine, and therefore contains 232 2 grains or 15 - 0464 grammes of fine gold.

The silver dollar weighs 4125 grains or 26730 grammes "900 fine, and therefore contains 371 '25 grains or 24 057 grammes of fine silver. Subsidiary silver coins contain 347 '22 grains of fine silver per dollar.

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

Wine Gallon = 83333 gallon. Ale Gallon = 101695 ,, Bushel. = 0*9692 imperial bushel.

Instead of the British cwt. a Cental, of 100 pounds, issued ; the short ton contains 2.000 lbs. ; the long ton, 2,240 lbs.

Diplomatic Representatives. 1. Of the United States in Great Britain.

Ambassador. — George Harvfy. Appointed April 1921.

Counsellor of Embassy. — J. Butler Wright.

Secretaries. — L. Lanier A\ inslow, A. B. Lane, J. Donald C. Rogers, Y. ¥. A. Pearson, and F. I>. K. Le Clercq.

Naval Attache. — Rear- Admiral Niblack, O.3.N.

Military Attache.— Colonel Oscar N. Solbert, C.M.G., U.S.A.

Treasury Attache. — S. E. Armstrong.

Commercial Attache". — Dr. Alfred P. Dennis.

Consul- General {London). — Robert Peet Skinner.

There are Consular representatives in Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford. Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Queenstown, Sheffield, Southampton, Swansea.

2. Of Great Britain in the United States.

Ambassador. — Rt. Hon. Sir Auckland Geddes, K.C. B. (appointed March 2, 1920).

Counsellor. — H. G. Chilton.

Secretaries.— R. L. Craigie, M. D. Peterson, A. F. Yenken, M.C., and Count J. E. de Salis.

Naval Attache".— Captain Geoffrey Blake, D.S.O., R.N.

Military Attache;— Major-General H. K. Bethell, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

Air Attache".— Ah Commodore L. E. O. Charlton, C.B. ; C.M.G., D.S.O.

Commercial Counsellor. — John Joyce Broderick.

Commercial Secretary. — H. C. A. Carpenter.

Consul-General at New York. — Henry Gloster Armstrong.

There are Consular representatives at all the important centres, in- cluding Baltimore, Boston, Charleston (V.C.), Chicago, Galveston, New