3. What will 102,896 feet of boards come to, at £.15 per M.? 4. What will 5 hhd. of fugar come to, weighing 8519 lb. neat, at 70 fhillings per 100 lb. ? 8519 210)59613,30 Anf. £.298 3 3 5. How much will 5 hhd. of fugar come to, weighing 9103 lb. neat, at 75 fhillings per 100? 9103 75 45515 63721 210)68217,25 Anf. £.341 73 BARBADOES. The Spanish dollar is 6s. 3d. Barbadoes currency. To change Barbadoes currency to Federal. RULE. Increase the pence in the given fum by one-third for cents. EXAMPLE. Change £.49 11 10 Barbadoes money to Federal. MARTINICO, TOBAGO, AND ST. CHRISTOPHER'S. These islands being inhabited by French and English, the former keep their accounts in Livres, Sols, and Deniers, and the latter in Pounds, Shillings, and Pence. When payment of freight or goods is mentioned in Spanish dollars, difagreement refpecting their value has frequently arffen; and to prevent it, some perfons diftinguish them by round and current dollars; others mention the bits to each. But the most certain way is to specify the number of fhillings or livres, inftead of dollars; thus A fells to B a barrel of flour, at 99 fhillings or livres; in payment B may allow him 11 dollars at 9 fhillings each, or 12 dollars at 8s. 3d. each, either being equal to 99 fhillings or livres, the fum fpecified by their agreement. FRENCH WEST-INDIES. Accounts are kept in Livres, Sols, and Deniers. 12 deniers make 1 fol, and 20 fols 1 livre. The Spanish dollar paffes in fome places for 8 livres 5 fols, and in thers for 9 livres. I cwt. or 112 lb. in the United States is equal to 104 lb. French. 100 lb. French are equal to 108 lb. nearly, in the United States. When any commodity is to be marked in French weight 4 per cent. is added to the neat hundreds; thus a hogfhead of fish weighing neat 10 cwt. is marked 1040 lb. Fifh fhipped from the United States will anfwer to the weight thus marked, provided it comes out in good order, and the cafk weighs exactly the customary tare, which is 10 per cent. 100 lb. of coffee or cotton, bought in the French islands, will, or ought to weigh 108 ib. (it will often weigh 110 lb.) in the United States; and as thefe articles are fold here per lb. there is a gain of 8 to 10 per cent. in the weight. But on fugar, which is bought for 100 lb. and fold here per 112, there is a lofs of 6 per cent. because there is 4 per cent. between the American cwt. and 100 lb. French, and 2 per cent. difference in the tare. The tare on brown fugar in the French lands being 10 per cent. and the American tare 12 per cwt. The lofs on clayed fugar is greater, occafioned by the cultomary tare, which is but 7 per cent. in the French iflands, whereas it is here 12 per cent. the fame as on brown fugar. NOTE. The tare allowed on fugar among merchants is 12 per 112; that allowed by the cuftom-houfe is 12 per 100. [See Tare and Tret.] Change 10692 livres to dollars, at 8 livres per dollar. 2. Change 7713 livres to dollars, at 9 livres per dollar. 97713 Anf. 857 dollars. 3. In 1296 dollars, at 8 livres each, how many livres? 1296 10368 324 Anf. 10692 livres. 4. 857 dollars, at 9 livres each, how many livres ? 5. What will 1642 lb. of coffee come to at 15 fols per lb. 6. 1780 lb. cotton at 157 livres 10 fols per 100 lb. 8. How many dollars, at 8 livres 5 fols. per dollar, will pay for 12 hhd, of brown fugar, weighing 13365 lb. at 40 livres per 100 lb. A cargo, amounting to 12536 dollars in the United States, is fold at 12 per cent, advance on the invoice; how many livres will it amount to, eftimating the dollar at 8 livres each. 20. 32670 gals. do. at 73 1. 7 f. 9 d. per tierce of 60 gals. 39959 9 10 |