Disposal of Sewage and Garbage in Foreign Countries: Foreign Trade in Coal Tar and By-products ... Reports from Consuls of the United States in Answer to Circulars from the Department of State. Issued from the Bureau of Foreign Commerce ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 - Coal-tar - 266 pages
 

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Page 5 - Congress assembled, that the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value ; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the .world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 5 - VALUES OF FOREIGN COINS AND CURRENCIES. The following statements show the valuation of foreign coins, as given by the Director of the United States Mint and published by the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with the first section of the act of March 3...
Page 9 - FOREIGN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The following table embraces only such weights and measures as are given from time to time in CONSULAR REPORTS and in Commercial Relations: Foreign weights and measures, with American equivalents.
Page 11 - Decigram (.fa gram) equals 1.5432 grains. Gram equals 15.432 grains. Decagram (10 grams) equals 0.3527 ounce. Hectogram (100 grams) equals 3.5274 ounces. Kilogram (1,000 grams) equals 2.2046 pounds. Myriagram (10,000 grams) equals 22.046 pounds. Quintal (100,000 grams) equals 220.46 pounds. Millier or tonnea — ton (1,000,000 grams) equals 2,204.6 pounds. Metric dry measures : Millillter (ji^nr liter) equals 0.061 cubic inch.
Page 11 - Deciliter (fa liter) equals 0.845 gill. Liter equals 1.0567 quarts. Decaliter (10 liters) equals 2.6418 gallons. Hectoliter (100 liters) equals 26.417 gallons. Kiloliter (1,000 liters) equals 264.18 gallons. Metric measures of length. Millimeter (Jj^IS meter) equals 0.0394 inch.
Page 7 - The Egyptian pound became fixed in value at $4.04,3 in 1887. {The Netherlands florin fluctuated up to the year 1880, when it became fixed at 40.2 cents. Countries. Standard. Monetary unit. Value in terms of the United States gold dollar on January i — 1874. 1875. 1878. 1880. 1883. 1884. Austria-Hungary*.
Page 12 - Meter equals 39.37 inches. Decameter (10 meters) equals 393.7 inches. Hectometer (100 meters) equals 328 feet. 1 inch. Kilometer (1,000 meters) equals 0.62137 mile (3,280 feet 10 inches). Myriameter (10,000 meters) equals 6.2137 miles. , Metric surface measures: Centare (1 square meter) equals 1,550 square inches.
Page 5 - ... of such year. In hurried computations, the reductions of foreign currencies into American currency, no matter for how many years, are too often made on the bases of latest valuations.
Page 11 - Myriagram (10,000 grams) equals 22.046 pounds. Quintal (100,000 grams) equals 220.46 pounds. Millier or tonnea — ton (1,000,000 grams) equals 2,204.6 pounds. Metric dry measures. Milliliter ^5^5 liter) equals 0.061 cubic inch. Centiliter (yjj liter) equals 0.6102 cubic inch. Deciliter (,'5 liter) equals 6.1022 cubic inches.
Page 5 - The value of the standard coins of countries with the single silver standard is calculated to be that of the average market value of the pure metal they contained during the three months preceding the date of the proclamation of their value in United States gold by the Secretary of the Treasury. The value of the gold coins of silver-standard countries is calculated at that of the pure gold they contain, just as if they had the single gold standard. "These valuations are used in estimating the values...

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