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    19th Century · English

    The History of Bimetallism in the United States

    J. Laurence Laughlin

    The History of Bimetallism in the United States, by J. Laurence Laughlin (1850–1933), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    46
    Variants
    46
    Genre
    Economics
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01To M. M. L, Gresham's Law.prose
    2. 02Preface to the Fourth Editionprose
    3. 03Preface to the First Editionprose
    4. 04Part I: The United States, 1792-1873, Part I, Chapter I: The Arguments of Bimetallists and Monometallistsprose
    5. 05Part I, Chapter II: The Silver Period, 1792-1834prose
    6. 06Part I, Chapter III: Cause of the Change in the Relative Values of Gold and Silver, 1780-1820prose
    7. 07Part I, Chapter IV: Change of the Legal Ratio by the Act of 1834prose
    8. 08Part I, Chapter V: The Gold Discoveries and the Act of 1853prose
    9. 09Part I, Chapter VI: The Gold Standard, 1853-1873prose
    10. 10Part I, Chapter VII: The Demonetization of Silverprose
    11. 11Part II: The Late Fall in the Value of Silver, Part II, Chapter VIII: The Production of Gold since 1850prose
    12. 12Part II, Chapter IX: India and the Eastprose
    13. 13Part II, Chapter X: Germany Displaces Silver with Goldprose
    14. 14Part II, Chapter XI: France and the Latin Unionprose
    15. 15Part II, Chapter XII: Cause of the Late Fall in the Value of Silverprose
    16. 16Part II, Chapter XIII: The Continued Fall in the Value of Silver since 1885prose
    17. 17Part III: The United States Since 1873, Part III, Chapter XIV: Silver Legislation in 1878prose
    18. 18Part III, Chapter XV: Operation of the Act of 1878prose
    19. 19Part III, Chapter XVI: Act of 1890prose
    20. 20Part III, Chapter XVII: Cessation of Silver Purchases, 1893prose
    21. 21Appendix II, Relative Values of Gold and Silverprose
    22. 22B. Ratios of Gold to Silver, given Yearly since 1687.prose
    23. 23G. Method of Computing the Ratio from the London Price of Silver.prose
    24. 24Method of Computing the Value of a Silver Dollar from New York Quotations.prose
    25. 25Appendix IV, Coinage Laws, I. April, 1792.—An Act establishing a Mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States.prose
    26. 26II. June, 1834.—An Act concerning the gold coins of the United States, and for other purposes.prose
    27. 27III. January, 1837.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled "An Act establishing a Mint, and regulating the coins of thprose
    28. 28V. February, 1853.—An Act amendatory of Existing Laws relative to the Half-Dollar, Quarter-Dollar, Dime, and Half-Dime.prose
    29. 29VI. February, 1873.—An Act revising and amending the Laws relative to the Mints, Assay-offices, and Coinage of the Uniteprose
    30. 30VII. June, 1874.—Revised Statutes of the United States; Title XXXIX, Legal Tender.prose
    31. 31VIII. January, 1875.—An Act to provide for the Resumption of Specie Payments.prose
    32. 32IX. April, 1876.—Issue of Silver Coin.prose
    33. 33X. July, 1876.—Joint Resolution for the Issue of Silver Coin.prose
    34. 34XI. February, 1873.—An Act to authorize the coinage of the standard Silver Dollar, and to restore its legal-tender charaprose
    35. 35XIII. July 14, 1890.—An Act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for otprose
    36. 36XIV. November 1, 1893.—An Act to repeal a part of an act approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitledprose
    37. 37Title I, Of the fabrication of coins.prose
    38. 38C. German Monetary Laws of 1871 and 1873, German Reichstag, 1st Legislation Period, 2d session, 1871. Law relating to thprose
    39. 39D. Treaty between Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Italy concerning the Monetary Union.prose
    40. 40Treaty of Latin Union, 1885.prose
    41. 41Act Dated December 12, additional to the Monetary Treaty signed November 6, 1885, between France, Greece, Italy, and Swiprose
    42. 42E. Plan for the Resumption of Specie Payments, laid before the Chamber of Deputies by the Italian Government, November 1prose
    43. 43Act I. Act of August 2, 1892, for the Introduction of the Crown Standard.prose
    44. 44Act II. Authorizing the ministry of the kingdoms and lands represented in the Reichsrath to conclude a treaty for monetaprose
    45. 45Act V. Authorizing a loan for securing a supply of gold for the coinage of gold coins of the crown standard, and specifyprose
    46. 46Appendix VII, The World's Industrial Consumption of Gold and Silver in 1895.prose