Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will of the late Martin Brimmer contains several public bequests. It provides that from the one-half of the property put in trust for his wife during her life, $50,000 shall go to Harvard University, $20,000 to the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the surplus of that half, if any, shall go to the Museum of Fine Arts...
...deficit; but, the amount being much more than necessary, the government has been able to put aside 90 millions of legal tender notes...
...convenience sake a table was put on the blackbord showing the condition of the currency last month. (N. B. The figures given represent millions of dollars. Subsidiary coins, i.e., under one dollar, are not taken into account.) Legal tender notes are of two kinds: (a) U. S. Notes, commonly known as "greenbacks," 346.7; (b) Treasury Notes...
...silver dollars and certificates (class 2) were issued from 1878 to 1890. These two forms of currency are practically equivalent. The Act of 1878 provided that any time the silver dollars might be put in the treasury and exchanged for silver certificates. Owing to the clumsiness of the silver dollar this is actually what has taken place, so that the certificates are much more numerous than the dollars. But, as this was not the expectation in 1878, the silver certificates were not made legal tender. As they constitute no claim upon the holdings of the government except for silver...
...with class 4. We know, of course, the amount of gold in the treasury and the national Banks, but the estimate of the amount of gold elsewhere cannot be found out accurately. The treasury estimate of 367.6 millions is probably far too high, although it is difficult to put one's finger exactly on the error. One hundred and fifty milions would more nearly represent the true state of affairs...