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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ation have absorbed some$14,837,500, while on lunatic asylum buildingsthere has been spent $13,101,925; in schemes forthe improvement of public health, $13,451,390;under the Laborers Acts, $9,150,940 (to provideemployment, etc.); on railways, $6,000,635; inadvances to occupants for improvement of hold-ings, $5,355,530; roads and bridges, $5,041,220.Other sums have been spent on harbors anddocks, reclamation of lands, dwellings for thepoorer classes, teachers residences, dispensaries,and in advance to tenants for the purchase oftheir farms. The recent Land Purchase Billhas made available a large sum of money tobe used in aiding tenants in purchase of hold-ings (1903). Money, Weights. Measures.— The standardof value is gold. Silver is legal tender up to40 shillings; bronze up to 12 pence; and far-things only to 6 pence. Bank of England notesare legal tender. The names of the coins usedare sovereign, half-sovereign, crown, half-crown,florin, shilling, sixpence, threepence, penny, half-
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