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Page 7 - 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, 1873, viz: "That the value of foreign coins, as expressed in the money of account of the United States, shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value...
Page 14 - ... 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 Measure.
Page 2 - REPORTS, many numbers arc exhausted or so reduced that the Department is unable to accede to requests for copies. Of the publications of the Bureau available for distribution, copies are mailed to applicants without charge. In view of the scarcity of certain numbers, the Bureau will be grateful for the return of any copies of the monthly or special reports which recipients do not care to retain. Upon notification of...
Page 2 - SPECIAL CONSULAR REPORTS, containing series of reports from consular officers on particular subjects, made in pursuance to instructions from the Department. Following are the special publications issued by the Bureau prior to...
Page 9 - 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 2 - Engines in Foreign Countries. Of these SPECIAL CONSULAR REPORTS, Australian Sheep and Wool, Cotton Textiles in Foreign Countries, Files in Spanish America...
Page 2 - The publications of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of State, are: I.— COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, being the annual reports of consular officers on the commerce, industries, navigation, etc.. of their districts. II. — CONSULAR REPORTS, issued monthly, and containing miscellaneous reports from diplomatic and consular officers.
Page 2 - Labor in Europe, 1878, one volume; Labor in Foreign Countries, 1884, three volumes; Commerce of the World and the Share of the United Slates Therein, 1879; Commerce of the World and the Share of the United States Therein...
Page 834 - For each of the past five years, the imports of the Empire have exceeded the exports to the average extent of $30,884,435, and the excess tends to become still greater each year, being more than $40,000,000 for the year under review. BANKS. Although the trade of the United States with Japan exceeds that of any other nation, she having nearly one-fourth of the entire volume of trade, there is no American bank in the Empire, and all business with the United States must be carried on through native...
Page 15 - Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, accompanying the Commercial Relations of the United States for the year...