Note 772 — Chapter IX · SCHOOL SUPPORT, ORGANIZATION, AND CURRICULUM
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Attention is called to the fact that during the years mentioned in the following table currency greatly depreciated. This depreciation was most marked in 1779, when, in January, the ratio was 8 to 1; and in November of the same year 38½ to 1. See Dewey, D. R., Financial History of U. S., 39; also page 212.