Excerpt from Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year 1885, Vol. 1 of 2: Finance Equivalence in the contemporaneous coin embodiments of our mone' tary unit was the purpose of the coinage laws of 1792, 1834, 1837, and 1853. Equivalence in. The successive coin embodiments of our monetary unit was the purpose of the coinage laws of 1834; 1837, 1853, 1873, and 1878. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.