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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inflation legislation. (search)
80,000. Authority was given on the same day for the issue of enough fractional currency to bring the amount of circulation up to $50,000,000. Authority having been given by law to reissue indefinitely any of the United States notes, no care was taken, in reissuing them, to maintain any distinction in the character of the notes. The amount outstanding at one time, however, never exceeded the aggregate amount authorized to be issued by the three acts, and its highest amount was reached Jan. 30, 1864, when it was $449,338,902. The total amount of legaltender paper issued by the government, exclusive of fractional currency, having a limited legal-tender quality, may be thus summed up: United States notes$449,338,902 One year 5 per cent. notes44,520,000 Two year 6 per cent. notes166,480,000 —————— Total$660,338,902 In July, 1865, the government had outstanding $433,000,000 of United States notes, $43,000,000 of one and two year notes, and $25,000,000 of fractional notes.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
rence, 5,291; scattering, 1,184......Nov. 5, 1861 Confederate guerilla chief Quantrill makes a raid into Johnson county, burning Shawneetown......Oct. 17, 1862 Quantrill, with 300 men, dashes into the streets of Lawrence at daylight and kills about 200 men......Aug. 21, 1863 Massacre at Baxter Springs, Kan., of eighty men, the cavalry escort of General Blunt, by Quantrill and 600 guerillas......Oct. 6, 1863 A wagon-train loaded with Fort Scott coal arrives in Leavenworth......Jan. 30, 1864 Confederate Gen. Sterling Price advances with troops towards Kansas, Oct. 1, and enters Linn county......Oct. 24, 1864 Battles near Mound City, Little Osage, and Charlotte......Oct. 25, 1864 Census: White, 127,270; colored, 12,527; Indian, 382......May, 1865 Osage Indians sell to the United States a tract of land, 30 by 50 miles square, and cede to the government a strip 20 miles in width, off the north side of the remainder of their reservation......Sept. 29, 1865 Kansas