Note 210 — FINANCIAL RECONSTRUCTION AND SPECIE PAYMENTS.
Reading edition
Statement of the Public Debt, January 1, 1870.—Purchases of bonds in excess of the sum required for the sinking fund first appear in the Statement of August 1, 1869, and as then amounting, with the accrued interest, to $15,110,590; thence to January 1, 1870, the monthly average, including interest, was a little short of $10,000,000.