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The annual transportation within the United States, excluding the service in California and Oregon, which is now for the first time reported and embraced in the tabular statements of the Department, exceeds that of the preceding year 6,162,855 miles, at an increased cost of $547,110. The whole number of post-offices in the United States on the 30th day of June last was 19,796.
Assuming that the war would end by next March 1st, you must add another $590,000,000 for interest and sinking fund on the war debt together with a further $100,000,000 for pensions which would make the total yearly expenditure for the first year of peace $1,690,000,000. Deducting this from the existing taxation you get a surplus of $855,000,000.
Among the books he translated or edited were The Handbook, a collection of extracts on religious subjects; The Cura Pastoralis, or Herdsman's book of Gregory the Great, with a preface by himself which is the first English prose; Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English; The English Chronicle, which, already brought up to 855, he continued up to the date of writing; it is probably by his own hand; Orosius's History of the World, which he adapted for English readers with many historical and geographical additions; the De Consolatione Philosophiæ of Boethius; and a translation of some of the Psalms.
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The annual transportation within the United States, excluding the service in California and Oregon, which is now for the first time reported and embraced in the tabular statements of the Department, exceeds that of the preceding year 6,162,855 miles, at an increased cost of $547,110. The whole number of post-offices in the United States on the 30th day of June last was 19,796.
He cut out the business of that convention, and declared that the Constitution and equality of the States was the only bond of everlasting union. Mr. Stephens headed the Douglas ticket. Senator Douglas himself came to Georgia and spoke during the campaign. The Bell and Everett ticket was championed by Benjamin H. Hill. The vote in Georgia was: Breckenridge, 51,893; Douglas, 11,580; Bell, 42,855.
In 1772, the old malt tax produced......... £722,023: 11: 11 The additional... £356,776: 7: 9¾ In 1775, the old tax produced............... £561,627: 3: 7½ The additional... £278,650: 15: 3¾ In 1774, the old tax produced ............ £624,614: 17: 5¾ The additional....£310,745: 2: 8½ In 1775, the old tax produced ............£657,357: 0: 8¼ The additional....£323,785: 12: 6¼ £5,855,580: 12: 0¾ Average of these four years .............. £958,895: 3: 0
John Locke's rule is this: Refer to the page, with another reference to the number of pages in the volume. At the same time tell how many volumes there are in the set you use. You would enter Charles II.'s escape from England, as described in the Pictorial History of England, thus: "Charles II. escapes after battle of Worcester. "Pictorial Hist. Eng. 391/855, Vol 3/4."
The sharp practice of Martien's patent lawyer, Mushet claimed, had deprived him of an opportunity of proving priority of invention against Bessemer. Mushet was convinced that Martien's was the first in the field. See Mining Journal, 1857, vol. 27, pp. 839 and 855.
Similar lodgment was made at Waterford, and a third was attempted at Limerick, but at this period without success; the Danish fort at the latter point is not thought older than the year 855.
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