The Mercantile Arithmetic: Adapted to the Commerece of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations: with an Appendix, Containing Practical Systems of Mensuration, Gauging, and Book-keeping

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C. J. Hendee, and G. W. Palmer, 1838 - Arithmetic - 327 pages
 

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Page 250 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Page 170 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following...
Page 97 - ... interest at that time due: add that interest to the principal, and from the sum subtract the payment made at that time, together with the preceding payments (if any) and the remainder forms a new principal ; on which, compute and subtract the interest, as upon the first principal: and proceed in this manner to the time of the judgment.
Page 322 - Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said party of the second part...
Page 71 - Multiply the whole numbers by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new numerator, and place it over the denominator. NOTE. To express a whole number fraction-wise, set one for a denominator to the given number. EXAMPLES. 1 . Reduce 5§ to an improper fraction.
Page 324 - Boston, to the owner aforesaid or his order. And to the true and faithful performance of all and singular the covenants, payments and agreements aforementioned, each of the parties aforenamed binds and obliges himself, his executors and administrators, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars firmly by these presents.
Page 250 - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. DISTRIcT CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the...
Page 309 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 79 - A farmer, being asked how many sheep he had, answered, that he had them in 5 fields ; in the first...

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