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... hundred and eighty working days in the year , the men at 1 , and the oxen at 1 piastres per day , the cost is 58,500,000 piastres . Calculating the interest on the first cost of the sakiahs and oxen , at the usual rate , 12 per cent per ...
... hundred and eighty working days in the year , the men at 1 , and the oxen at 1 piastres per day , the cost is 58,500,000 piastres . Calculating the interest on the first cost of the sakiahs and oxen , at the usual rate , 12 per cent per ...
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... hundred and sixty horse power , and a crew of forty - two From Marseilles to Alexandria the passage is of fourteen to fifteen days , including the stoppages , and about the same to Constantinople . The charge for passengers is five hundred ...
... hundred and sixty horse power , and a crew of forty - two From Marseilles to Alexandria the passage is of fourteen to fifteen days , including the stoppages , and about the same to Constantinople . The charge for passengers is five hundred ...
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... hundred boats between Cairo and Syene , and nine hundred on the Rosetta and Damietta branches . In 1833 , the government had eight hundred , and private owners , 2,500 ; and since then they have been much increased in number . The ...
... hundred boats between Cairo and Syene , and nine hundred on the Rosetta and Damietta branches . In 1833 , the government had eight hundred , and private owners , 2,500 ; and since then they have been much increased in number . The ...
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... hundred miles apart . Weights , Measures , and Currency . - The weights and measures vary in different parts of the country , and some are quite primitive , as the fitr , which is the length between the point of the thumb and the fore ...
... hundred miles apart . Weights , Measures , and Currency . - The weights and measures vary in different parts of the country , and some are quite primitive , as the fitr , which is the length between the point of the thumb and the fore ...
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... hundred persons are employed , and the carbonates of soda yield ninety to ninety - five degrees of alkali . Rose - water . - Fayoum is the land of rose - trees . In May , the soil is twice turned up , divided into squares , and slips ...
... hundred persons are employed , and the carbonates of soda yield ninety to ninety - five degrees of alkali . Rose - water . - Fayoum is the land of rose - trees . In May , the soil is twice turned up , divided into squares , and slips ...
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Page 230 - Trustee, to cause to be insured for her sole use the life of her husband for any definite period, or for the term of his natural life, and in case of her surviving her husband, the sum or net amount of the insurance becoming due and payable by the terms of the insurance, shall be payable to her, to and for her own use, free from the claims of the representatives of her husband, or of any of his creditors, but such exemption shall not apply where the amount of premium annually paid shall exceed three...
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Page 529 - Moines; thence down and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines, to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi *35431.545 (1820).
Page 227 - ... in case he shall die by his own hands, in, or in consequence of, a duel, or by the hands of justice, or in the known violation of any law of these States, or of the United States, or of the said Provinces.
Page 529 - ... meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas River where the same empties into the Missouri River...
Page 345 - The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces by every such operation only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as those of the home trade, the capital employed in it will give but one half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the country.
Page 230 - It shall be lawful for any married woman, by herself and in her name, or in the name of any third person, with his assent, as her trustee, to cause to be insured, for her sole use, the life of her husband...
Page 529 - ... the rapids of the river Des Moines, making the said line correspond with the Indian boundary line; thence, east, from the point of intersection last aforesaid, along the said parallel of latitude, to the middle of the channel of the main fork of the said river Des Moines...
Page 573 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take ; and as willing never to be paid for his work by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long gratis. Therefore I pray gentlemen keep your purses. By Theodore de la Guard.
Page 281 - Goods shall be imported into, nor shall any Goods, except the Produce of the Fisheries in British Ships, be exported from any of the British Possessions in America by Sea from or to any Place other than the United Kingdom, or some other of such Possessions, except into or from the several Ports in such Possessions, called " Free Ports," enumerated or described in the Table following; (that is to say,) TABLE OF FBEE POSTS.