Roughing It, Part 3.
Roughing It, Part 3.
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Curry's generosity, the United States said that did not alter thematter, and the three dollars and forty cents would be subtracted fromthe Secretary's eighteen hundred dollar salary--and it was!
The matter of printing was from the beginning an interesting feature ofthe new government's difficulties. The Secretary was sworn to obey hisvolume of written "instructions, " and these commanded him to do twocertain things without fail, viz. : 1. Get the House and Senate journals printed; and, 2. For t...his work, pay one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand" forcomposition, and one dollar and fifty cents per "token" for press-work, in greenbacks.
It was easy to swear to do these two things, but it was entirelyimpossible to do more than one of them. When greenbacks had gone down toforty cents on the dollar, the prices regularly charged everybody byprinting establishments were one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand"and one dollar and fifty cents per "token, " in gold. The "instructions"commanded that the Secretary regard a paper dollar issued by thegovernment as equal to any other dollar issued by the government.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Curry's generosity, the United States said that did not alter thematter, and the three dollars and forty cents would be subtracted fromthe Secretary's eighteen hundred dollar salary--and it was!
The matter of printing was from the beginning an interesting feature ofthe new government's difficulties. The Secretary was sworn to obey hisvolume of written "instructions, " and these commanded him to do twocertain things without fail, viz. : 1. Get the House and Senate journals printed; and, 2. For t...his work, pay one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand" forcomposition, and one dollar and fifty cents per "token" for press-work, in greenbacks.
It was easy to swear to do these two things, but it was entirelyimpossible to do more than one of them. When greenbacks had gone down toforty cents on the dollar, the prices regularly charged everybody byprinting establishments were one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand"and one dollar and fifty cents per "token, " in gold. The "instructions"commanded that the Secretary regard a paper dollar issued by thegovernment as equal to any other dollar issued by the government.
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