APPENDIX.

Value of Foreign Coins.

CONTENTS.

Immediate Transportation Ports.

Standard Gauge for imported Sheet and Plate Iron.

Capacity of bottles containing Brandy, Ale, Porter and Beer.
Rates of Tare.

Metric System.-Authorized table of Weights and Measures.
Spanish pounds reduced to United States pounds.
Hundred-weights and Tons reduced to pounds.

Lineal Yard reduced to Square Yards.

Metre reduced to Square Yards.

Kilograms or Kilos reduced to Avoirdupois pounds.

Liters reduced to United States gallons.

Pounds Sterling of Great Britain reduced to Custom House Standard.

Franc of France, Switzerland and Belgium; Lire of Italy; Drachma of Greece and Peseta of Spain reduced to Custom House Standard.

Mark of the German Empire reduced to Custom House Standard. Crown of Denmark, Norway and Sweden reduced to Custom Standard.

Foreign Weights and Measures reduced to United States Standard.

The value of Foreign Coins are proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury on the first day of January, April, July and October in each year. (See Section 25, Act of August 28, 1894, supra).

Gold: condor ($9.64,7) and double-condor.
Silver peso.

.92, 6 Gold: doubloon ($5.01,7). Silver: peso.

Gold: 10 and 20 crowns.

Gold: condor (9.64,7) and double-condor.
Silver: sucre and divisions.

Gold: pound (100 piasters), 5, 10, 20, and 50
piasters. Silver: 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 pias.
Gold: 20 marks ($3.85,9), 10 marks ($1.93).
Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 francs. silver:
5 francs.

Gold 5, 10, and 20 marks.

Gold: sovereign (pound sterling) and sovereign.

Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 drachmas. Silver: 5 drachmias.

Gold and Gourde..

.96, 5

Silver: gourde.

*Gold the nominal standard. +Coined since January 1, 1886. Silver the nominal standard. by the gold standard.

Silver practically the standard.
Old half-imperial-$3.98,6.

Paper the actual currency, the depreciation of which is measured

.39, 8

.04, 4
.19, 3

Gold: 25, 50, 100, 250. and 500 plasters
Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 bolivars. Sil-
ver: 5 bolivars.

IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION PORTS.

Ports at which Merchandise may be entered for Transportation to other Ports without Appraisement under the Immediate Transportation Act of June 10, 1880, supra.

Ports to which Merchandise may be Transported without Appraisement under the Immediate Transportation Act of June 10, 1880,

STANDARD GAUGE for IMPORTED SHEET and PLATE IRON.

(U. S. Statutes, Vol. 27, page 746.)

AN ACT establishing a standard gauge for sheet and plate iron and steel.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That for the purpose of securing uniformity the following is established as the only standard gauge for sheet and plate iron and steel in the United States of America, namely:

Approxi-
mate
thickness

ness in decimal

And on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the same and no other shall be used in determining duties and taxes levied by the United States of America on sheet and plate iron and steel. But this Act shall not be construed to increase duties upon any articles which may be imported.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to prepare suitable standards in accordance herewith.

SEC. 3. That in the practical use and application of the standard gauge hereby established a variation of two and one-half per cent, either way may be allowed.

Regulations in T. D. 14263.