COST PER LINEAL YARD IN STERLING MONEY, AND COST PER LINEAL YARD AND PER LINEAL METER IN FRENCH FRANCS, TO EQUAL 8, 10, 12, 13, AND 15 CENTS PER SQUARE YARD. This table gives the equivalent in sterling money and in francs, per lineal yard and lineal meter, on different widths of cotton cloths, at the several values prescribed under the cotton schedule of the Act of 1883, as the minimum for the imposition of the ad valorem duty of 40 per cent., showing the dividing cost line on lineal measurements, according to which the rates, specific or ad valorem, are required to be assessed. It may also be used to ascertain the specific duties on lineal measurements of other goods of any of the stated widths at 8, 10, 12, and 15 cents per square yard. METER, AND AUNE IN FRENCH FRANCS, TO EQUAL 20 CENTS RELATIVE DUTY BY OUNCES AND FRACTIONS OF OUNCE TO EQUAL Ounces. 10 cts. pr. lb. 12 cts. pr. lb. 18 cts. pr. lb. 24 cts. pr. lb. 30 cts. pr. lb. 85 cts. pr. lb. 40 cts. pr. lb. [The following tables of money, weights, and measures, prepared for the United States Treasury Department by Mr. E. B. Elliott, are copied from "Webster's Counting-house Dictionary."] TABLE* SHOWING, IN TERMS OF THE STANDARD GOLD COINAGE OF THE UNITED STATES, (1.) THE INTRINSIC VALUES OF THE PRINCIPAL GOLD AND SILVER COINS OF DIFFERENT FOREIGN COUNTRIES DUE TO THEIR LEGAL WEIGHT AND FINENESS. AND (2) THE INTRINSIC VALUES DUE TO THEIR ACTUAL AVERAGE WEIGHT AND FINENESS AS ASCERTAINED BY TRIAL AT MINTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF OTHER COUNTRIES: (8.) THE RATES FIXED BY UNITED STATES LAW AT WHICH CERTAIN FOREIGN COINS OR CUR RENCY SHALL BE RECEIVED IN PAYMENT OF CUSTOMS DUES. Iu reducing the value of silver coins to the gold standard of the United States, the value of gold has been considered to be 15% times that of silver of the same weight and fineness-this rate being the average of those obtaining in the London market for the fourteen years, 1853-1866. The values of silver coins derived from trials at the U. S. mint, as here given, are less by about 1.220 per cent. than the corresponding values published in the Official Tables; the latter values having been reduced to a gold basis on the assumption that the market price of gold is 15.1875 times that of silver, instead of 15% times, as here employed. GOLD.-New union crown (vereins-krone), AUSTRIA. Max d'or, legal, Half union crown, 3.3231 Former 4 ducat piece (until 1865), 9.1502 Former ducat (until 1865), 2.2871 Former ducat by trial at U. S. mint," 2.2828 Gulden (of the 241⁄2 gulden standard), BELGIUM. See FRANCE. Hungarian or Kremnitz ducat,. 2.2946 Former sovereign (sovrano) used in Lom BRAZIL. bardy and Venice, 6.7783 The same, by trial at U. S. mint, SILVER.-New union (or vereins) thaler — 36 11⁄2 Austrian florin (containing of a münz-pfund of fine silver), since 1857,. New florin or gulden of 100 new kreutzer (and containing of a münz-pfund of 45 fine silver) about 57 of the old kreutzer, since 1857, . Former conventions-florin or gulden — 60 conventions kreutzer (and containing of a Cologne mark of fine silver) prior to 1857, Former conventions fiorin, by U. S. law 22d May, 1846, Former conventions or species thaler 2 conventions-florin, prior to 1857, Levantine, or Maria-Theresia, or Regina thaler (date 1780), still coined with the old date for the Levant trade, 6.7525 Milreis, trial by U. S. mint, BREMEN. See GERMANY (North). GOLD.-Bremen has no gold coinage of its own, but the unit of account still remains the gold thaler, of which there are 84 to the union crown, or 5 to the TO pistole, and which consequently, Rixthaler, by U. S. law of 1843, Thaler, by U. S. law of 1843, 0.7912 0.7911 0.7875 0.7476 0.71 BADEN. U. S. Mint,. Pezo (of 1855), average trial by U. S. mint, CHILI. See SOUTH AMERICA. For new rates under the act of March 3, 1873, see ante, pages 5, 6, and 7. CENTRAL AMERICA. 0.3617 GOLD-Onza, or doubloon, of 1833, trial by U. S. mint, 14.9658 Pezo, or "onza (of 1825 to 1849) trial by SILVER-Pezo (1840-1842), average trial by 1.0311 1.0137 . 0.8997 GOLD-Piece of 100 francs, legal, Piece of 20 francs, legal, (Pieces of 5 and 10 francs in proportion.) Piece of 20 francs, new, trial by U.S. mint, Piece of 20 francs, average, trial by U. S mint, Former Louis d'or (1810 to 1840), by trial, SILVER-Piece of 5 francs, legal, Piece of 1 franc, prior to 1865, by U.S. law of 22d May, 1846, Piece of 1 franc, since 1865, subsidiary coin, legal,. Former livre tournois, received by U. S. Custom-house at, GUIANA. 0.2214 GUATEMALA. See CENTRAL AMERICA. . 0.185 FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN. (Formerly a free city, since 1866 belonging to Prussia.) GOLD.-Union crown and half crown (see Germany). Former ducat, legal, BILVER.-Vereins doppelthaler - 31⁄2 South German gulden (52% gulden to 1thungpfund of fine silver), legal, Vereinsthaler (134 gulden), Gulden of South Germany, 52% to 1 munzpfund of fine silver, Convention of 1857 (not yet coined), legal, Former gulden (241⁄2 to Cologne mark of fine silver, Convention of 1837), legal, The same, by U. S. law of 22d May, 1846, . GERMANY. GOLD.-Union crown (vereins krone), fine, and containing 10 grammes of pure gold, Union' half crown, BILVER-Union (or vereins) thaler of the 30-thaler fuss, or standard 30 thalers being coined from the münzpfund of 500 grammes of fine silver, HESSE CASSEL. Now part of Prussia. 0.4126 FORMER GOLD.-Pistole, or Wilhelm d'or 0.40 0.7204 Mohur of Netherlands' Possession (gold rupee,) legal, 7.832, 6.6462 |