HOLLAND. Accounts are kept in Florins or Gilders, Stivers, Deniers The florin or gilder of the United Netherlands is estimat ed in the United States at 40 cents, or 2 cents per stiver. 75 yards do. 100 lb. in Amsterdam make 109 lb. in the U. States 109 ells do. In liquid measure, 16 mingles make 1 steckan, 8 steckans 1 aum. 41 gallons. To change Sterling to Flemish. RULE. AS 1 pound sterling is to the given rate, so is the sterling given to the Flemish required. To change Flemish to Sterling. RULE. As the given rate is to £1 sterling, so is the Flemish given to the sterling required. The Old Bank of Amsterdam having ceased to exist on the first of February, 1820, all payments are now made in Current Money, and the Agio which formerly existed between Bank and Current was on that day abolished. A new system of moneys, weights and measures, similar to that of France, has been established for Holland, Brabant and Flanders, in which the Florin is made the monetary unit with decimal divisions. 1. What will 4853 kilo. of sugar come to, at 40 florins per cent.? 4853 194120 2426 Ans. fl. 1965,46 Centimes. 2. What will 4504 lbs. of sugar come to, at 14 grotes per lb. allowing 2 per cent. for draft, and 12 per cent. tare? Accounts are kept in Antwerp in gilders, shillings, and grotes, or in gilders and centimes. 12 grotes or pence, FI.* make 1 shilling. 1 gilder.. 3 shillings, or 40 grotes The Brabant or Antwerp grotes are of the value of the cents of the United States, a gilder being reckoned at 40 cts. In the current money of Antwerp they have stivers of the value of the stiver of Amsterdam, or 2 cts. U. States currency. The Old conditions of sale, viz. stivers and grotes, are still quoted in Price Currents, but the accounts are stated in Florins and Centimes. In Exchange with London f.11 19st. 6d. and 39sh. 11d. Flem. per £ are alike: thus, f.11 19 6 20 239 St. 2 479 grotes. 8. d. 39 11 12 479 pence cents. *Pence connected with shillings, Flem. are equal to cents, but connected with stivers are twelfths of a stiver, or 1 of a cent. The new quintal of Antwerp consists of 10 myriagrammes 204 lb. 14 oz. Avoirdupois weight. 112 lbs. Eng. = 100 Kilograms. In 5500 Kilos. of coffee, how many Antwerp lbs.? 100: 2121: : 5500. Ans. 11698 lbs. In 11698 Antwerp lbs. how many lbs. Eng.? 107: 112: : 11698. Ans. 12188 lb. Eng. Required the net sales of 1200 bags of coffee, weighing, viz. kilo. 59466 Off 2 per ct. for good weight 126477 Antwerp pounds. 2530 123947 The amount of the gross sales of 800 bags of coffee in 1824 was fl. 26210,63. On of which there was a discount of 2 per ct. § of it Required the net sales. 1 Ans. fl. 25768,33 An American merchant directs that fl. 26308,2 to his credit at Antwerp be remitted to London. Required the amount to his credit there, the remittance being effected at fl. 12,1 per £ ster.. 241 : 1 : 526162: Ans. £2183 4 11. What is the interest of fl. 9161 for 43 days at 5 per cent? The several charges on sale of coffee in 1827, after deducting the discount, amounted to circa 7 per cent. EXAMPLE. Gross sales-say Discounting 1 per cent. f.3773,00 56,60 3716,40 Estimated charges on f.3716, at 7 per cent. 288,02 Landing, &c. Duty, &c. f.177,62 Com. and Guaranty 111,49 289,11 Actual charges on the same in Oct. 1827, viz. In Oct. 1827, sugar, if sold at 18 florins per 50 kilos. would net $6,153 per 100 lb. Eng. exclusive of freight and commission. And to know how much it would net at any other price, multiply the quarter florins of difference from 18 florins, the assumed price, by ,088, and add or subtract as the case may be, for the answer. EXAMPLE. If Havana sugar be quoted and nets as before, how much would it net per 100 lb. Eng. exclusive of freight and insurance, if quoted at 24, 26, or 35 florins? At 24 fl.or 24 qrs. diff. X,0882,112+6,153=$ 8,265 "X,0882,9926,153 9,145 X,088 5,9846,153 12,137 26 or 34 35 BREMEN. Accounts are kept in Rix Dollars and Grotes, reckoning 72 grotes to the rix dollar, which is equal to 24 marks. 100 lb. Bremen Weight are equal to 110 lb. English. 102 lb. equal to 1 Cwt. 112 lb. The Bremen Last is equal to 80 bushels in the U. States. DENMARK. Accounts are kept in Danish dollars and Skillings, reckoning 96 skillings to the dollar. "A new monetary system has been established in 1813, and by it the Rix-bank dollar is 274d. sterling." 2 Rix-bank dollars, or 192 skillings are equal to 3 marks, or 48 schillings, Hamburgh Banco. 16 pounds make Their weights are shippounds, lispounds and pounds— 1 lispound. 1 shippound. 100 lbs. Danish are equal to 112 lbs. English. "make i shippound. 20 lispounds, or 320 pounds 320 "" 6 shippounds are equal to 1 ton English. 30 velts (viertiles) = circa 1 hhd. or 60 gallons. In 1600 shippounds of iron, how many Danish and English lbs.? 1600X320 512000 Danish lbs. At 12 per cent. adv. 61440 |