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Age,

The Famous Old People of 1907.

(Age at the last birthday is given. The list was made up for January 1, 1907.)

97. Charles H. Haswell, civil and mechanical engineer.

92. Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

91. Adolf Menzel, German painter.

90. Sir Theodore Martin, author.

89. Sir Joseph Hooker, botanist; Samuel Sloan, John Bigelow, journalist and diplomatist. 87. Julia Ward Howe, President Palmer, of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. 86. John Tenniel, cartoonist; Florence Nightingale, Baron Strathcoma.

85. Sir William H. Russell, journalist; Sir Charles Tupper, Senator Pettus, of Alabama.

84. Edward Everett Hale, Prof. Alfred R. Wallace, Rev. Henry M. Field, Donald G. Mitchell, Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler.

83. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Prof. Goldwin Smith, ex-Speaker Grow, Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia,

82. Professor Huggins, astronomer; ex-Vice-President Levi P. Morton, Senator Morgan, Lord Kelvin. 81. Sir William Aitken, pathologist; Professor March, philologist; D. O. Mills, financier; Emile Ollivier, French academician; General Daniel E. Sickles.

80. Karl Blind, ex-Empress Eugenie.

79. Pere Hyacinthe, J. H. Stoddart, comedian; Marquis of Ripon, Lord Lister.

78. Sir Henry James, lawyer; De Freycinet, French statesman; ex-Senator Edmunds, ex-President Dwight, of Yale; Count Tolstoi, Clara Barton, George Meredith, Dr. Angell, ex-Minister to Turkey. 77. General Booth, Salvation Army leader; Senator Allison, Senator Cullom, King Oscar of Sweden, Viscount Peel, Murat Halstead, James B. Angell.

76. President Diaz, of Mexico; Emperor Francis Joseph, J. Q. A. Ward, sculptor; Salvini, tragedian; ex-Secretary Tracy, Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Bishop Doane, ex-Senator Jones, of Nevada; Senator, Teller, Justin McCarthy, Henry M. Flagler. 75. General Galliffet, French soldier; ex-President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; George J. Goschen. Frederick Harrison, positivist; Henry Labouchère, journalist; Henri Rochefort, Victorien Sardou, Senator Frye, Joachim, violinist; Sir George Nares, Arctic explorer: Joseph H. Choate, Senator Proctor.

74. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, British Army; Maggie Mitchell, actress; Professor Vambery, Andrew D. White, ex-Justice Shiras, Prof. William Crookes, General Ignatieff, G. W. Custis Lee. 73. Chief Justice Fuller, Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, Denman Thompson, actor; Justice Harlan, Duke of Devonshire, Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet; Sir Lewis Morris, poet; ex-Secretary Bliss, Senator Platt, of New York; Professor Koch, George W. Smalley, journalist; Colonel J. S. Mosby, Representative Grosvenor of Ohio.

72.

Senator Depew President Eliot, of Harvard University; Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury), Ludovic Halévy, Cardinal Gibbons. 71. Pope Pius X., Leopold II., King of the Belgians; Rev. Lyman Abbott, Alexander Agassiz, ex-Secretary Carlisle, Bishop Potter, "Mark Twain," Charles Francis Adams, Alfred Austin, poet; Richard Olney, ex-Vice-President Stevenson, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, ex-Prime Minister Combes,of France; Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman, Hetty Green, Andrew Carnegie, ex-President Palma, of Cuba, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.

70. Sir Edward J. Poynter, President of the Royal Academy; Prof. C. F. Chandler, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Alma-Tadema, painter; W. S. Gilbert, dramatist; General Merritt, Joseph Chamberlain, ex-Secretary Alger, William Winter, dramatic critic; Lord Brassey, Edward Dicey, Sir Norman Lockyer, Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, Senator Hale, Henry M. Alden. 69. Ex-President Cleveland, Whitelaw Reid, Gen. Horace Porter, W. D. Howells, novelist; William L. Alden, author; J. Pierpont Morgan, Archbishop Ireland, Sir Michael HicksBeach, Justices Brewer and Peckham, Miss Braddon, Swinburne, poet; Admiral Dewey. 68. Prof. James Bryce, ex-Queen Liliuokalani, John Morley, John Wanamaker, ex-President Loubet. Generals Brooke and E. S. Otis, F. Hopkinson Smith, Senator Bacon, Cardinal Satolli. 67. Rear-Admiral Schley, Gen. Sir Redvers Buller, General Miles. Senator Clark, of Montana; Bishop Keane, Asa Bird Gardiner, John D. Rockefeller, King Charles of Roumania. 66 Capt. A. T. Mahan, Henry Watterson, ex-Labor Commissioner Wright, Clemenceau, Palmer Cox, Sir Hiram S. Maxim, Austin Dobson, poet; "Ouida," Thomas Hardy, novelist ; Bandmann, actor; General Kelly-Kenney, Lord Reay, President of the British Academy; Gen. S. B. M. Young, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria. 65. King Edward VII., Senator Aldrich, Minot J. Savage, Rear-Admiral Melville, James Gordon Bennett, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Coquelin, Marquis Ito, Japanese statesman; Sir Charles Wyndham, Mounet-Sully, William Rockefeller, Robert Buchanan, poet.

64. Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey; Anna, Dickinson, General Corbin, General Chaffee, Cardinal Rampolla, Senator Daniel, of Virginia; Lord' Alverstone, Flammarion, astronomer; Robert T. Lincoln, Joaquin Miller, Charles Warren Stoddard, author; Francois Coppée,

Howard Bronson.

63. Justice McKenna, Christine Nilsson, Adelina Patti, Senators Spooner, Dillingham, and Nelson, David B. Hill, Henry James, Jr., novelist; General Kuroki, Sir Charles Dilke, Sereno E. Payne, King Frederick VIII. of Denmark. 62. Sarah Bernhardt, Queen Alexandra, General Greely, John Hare, comedian; Modjeska, King Peter of Servia, Clark Russell, novelist; Rev. Dr. W. H. Roberts, George W. Cable, Richard Watson Gilder, Andrew Lang.

61. King George of Greece, Justice White, U. S. Supreme Court; Kyrle Bellew, actor; William H. Crane, actor; Duke of Argyle, General MacArthur, Elihu Root, Admiral Sigsbee,

60. Rear-Admira! Evans, Lord Charles Beresford, Senators Foraker, Wetmore and Hopkins, Haniilton W. Mabie, Pinkerton, detective; Col. William F. Cody, Millet, painter; Charles H. Taylor, journalist; George Westinghouse, Julian Hawthorne.

At what age does one become "old"! Five centuries ago a man was old at fifty. But the hale and hearty gentleman of to-day who has just turned sixty would probably protest against being classed among old people, even if famous. That his susceptibilities may not be wounded, therefore, a separating dash has been discreetly introduced after age sixty-five.

Stock List and Prices of Leading Stocks in 1906.

OUTSTANDING STOCK, BONDED INDEBTEDNESS, AND MILEAGE. HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN 1905 AND 1906.

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Nov. 15, 1906 45 Jan. 2, 1907 246 209 272 115 6 10 512 Aug. 15, 1905 55% 29% 43 24 14 Nov. 26, 1906 764 33 78% 534 134 Oct. 22, 1906 12284 10314 1204 110% 134 Jan. 15, 1907 17036 7984 174 138% 134 Jan. 2, 1907 137 1114 130 11:34 1836 67% 15% 934

Adams Express.

$12,000,000

$12 000,000 t

Amalgamated Copper..

153,887,900

American Beet Sugar («)....

15,000,000?

4,000,000 $

American Car & Foundry..

30,000,000

American Car & Foundry pfd....

30,000,000

American Cotton Oil...

20,237,100?

2

American Cotton Oil pfd...

10,198,600)

5,000,000

3,844,700

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1 Aug. 1, 1904 672 3518 534 40 134 Jan. 2, 1907 15436130 157 1271 14 Jan. 2.1907 141 133 140 12934 14 Dec. 1,1906 95% 90 934 86 12 Jan. 2,1907 10934 9136 109 96 47 2058 48 28 134 Oct. 15, 1906 108 93 1103% 101 $1.50 Oct. 17, 1906 295 100% 300 22312 21 Dec. 1,1906 933% 77% 110% 8536 2% Feb. 1, 1907 10556 99 106 9812 3 Jan. 10,1907 170 120 16734 1311 Sept. 1.1906 117 1001 125 10534 2 Sept. 1, 1906 100 91 992 90 74,710,000 9156 56% 94_71 18,000,000 1 June 1,1906 215 175 178 105% 3 Aug. 15, 1906 159 146 153 124 15,461,000 3 Aug. 15,1906 164% 155 141 139% 8,875,500 1 Dec. 1.1906 92% 84 87 83 20,000,000 14 Feb. 1,1907 74% 66 70% 63 55,238,086 3 Oct. 1.1906 177 13034 1944 1553% 82,680,354 1 Nov. 30,1906 60% 45% 655% 51% 174,172,000 134 Oct. 1, 1906 250 201 220 202 256 1716 2336 16 2 July 15.1906 89 8334 86% 79% 212 Oct. 1,1906 786 60 80 71122 371 29 3956247% 1876 1686 198% 1554 19282 218 177

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Chesapeake & Ohio.

Chicago Great Western...

Chicago Great Western deb..

Chicago Great Western pfd. "A"
Chicago Great Western pfd. "B"
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul..

11.872,400

23,124,942

83,183,900

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul pfd.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific..
Chicago, St. P., Minn. & Omaha.

49,654,400

74,847,600

122,176,500
164,587,000

11,256,800

Chicago, St. P., Minn. & Omalia pfd.
Chicago & Alton....

18,555,500)

202 175

19,542,800

384 25

Chicago & Alton pfd

19,544,000

....

805% 74

Chicago & East Illinois pfd..

8,830,700

1261 125

Chicago & Northwestern.

5,166,900)

Chicago & Northwestern pfd

22.395,000 (

270 225

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chic. & St. L...

40,000,000

Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chic. & St. L. pfd9,998,500

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62,183,730
9,969,000

2 Sept. 1, 1906 111
14 Oct. 20, 1906 1214 115 118 110
134 Dec. 1,1906 185

90 1097% 904

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7,000,000

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134 Apr. 15. 1902 59 38 835% 14%
4 Feb. 20, 1903 105 80 1121 80
30 224 41 291%
2 Oct. 1, 1906 697% 52 73 66%
55 32159 43
4 Mar. 1, 1904 20 1134 304 17
12 Oct. 31,1906 94% 73 100 95

21,244,600 1 Dec. 15, 1906 214, 175 18134 1305%
3,067,000 *10 Dec. 20,1906 4982 335 565 438
20,950,000 134 Dec. 15, 1906 2404 178% 232 189
19,584,500
392 2714 51% 65%
2% Jan. 15.1906 914 831 91 83
22 Dec. 15, 1906 14234 137
14 Oct. 27,1906 54% 34% 745% 51
5234 37% 50% 38%
2 Sept. 7.1906 851% 74% 83 75
2 Oct. 9.1906 783 56 7696 62%
(4 Nov. 1,1906 75
2% Oct. 15, 1906. 96

32.478.840 14,261,000
112.378,900

47,892*400 194,334,900
16,000,000

63 76 68

182 176 75

85 194 80

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STOCK LIST AND PRICES OF LEADING STOCKS IN 1906-Continued.

STOCKS.

Federal Mining & Smelting. Federal Mining & Smelting pfd. Fort Worth & Denver City (a). General Chemical...

General Chemical pfd.

Great Northern pfd. (c).

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95,040.000 127,638,275

67,804,000

15,000,000

Iowa Central..

10,021,983

Iowa Central pfd.

5,674,226

3,500,000 9,719,000

32 24

Mar.

3434 24

1,1900 61

50 6534 48

Kanawha & Michigan..

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Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis pfd.

13,510,000

33,490,610

Oct.

1, 1906 87 815 841 78

Kansas City Southern.

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22% 37% 2%

Kansas City Southern pfd.

30,000,000

21,000,000

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Keokuk & Des Moines..

2,600,400

Keokuk & Des Moines pfd..

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1.524,600

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May 2, 1904 53

40 45 44

Knickerbocker Ice

Knickerbocker Ice pfd.

Lake Erie & Western.

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Lake Erie & Western pfd.

10,875,000

11,840,000.

2

Jan. 15, 1907106 91 9216 75

Lake Shore...

49.466,500

118,432,000 6

Long Island.

Louisville & Nashville

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Manhattan Beach..

5,000,000

Manhattan Railway..

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Mergenthaler Linotype

10,996,000

Metropolitan Sec's Sub. Rects. (a)Tr. rects.

Metropolitan Street Railway (@).

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Mexican Central..

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Michigan Central.

18,738,000

25,275,000

Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie..

14,000,000)

Minneap., St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie pfd...

7,000,000

50,255,000

Minneapolis & St. Louis.

6,000,000

Minneapolis & St. L. pfd. 5 p. c. non-cum.

4,000,000

19,565,000

Missouri, Kansas & Texas.

63,300,300

Missouri, Kansas & Texas pfd..

13,000,000

Missouri Pacific..

77.817,875

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Jan. 29, 1907 155 2 Oct. 15, 1906 145 3% Oct. 15, 1906 173 21 Jan. 15. 1904 8434 2% July 16,1906 106 39% 76,300,300 2 Nov. 10 1906 73 85,012.000 26 July 20, 1906 110%

19,425,000

184 2656 1836 130 200 140 892 164 141% 148 18384 16342 56% 8414 63 86 10114 90 24 4856 29 564 76 644 94% 10634 85% 185 18984 1886

22 Aug. 1,1906158 137 1491 133

Jan. 15, 1907 69% 52

134 Nov. 30, 1906 12034 110

July 1,1905 31% 11

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134 Jan. 1 1907 94% 80 881 82 1 Jan. 1,1907 89% 24% 9534 66 134 Dec. 15,1906 115% 975% 1064 1604 (1 Aug. 10,1906 45 33 5934 36 24% 1784 30 184 51,105,000 2 Nov. 1, 1906 235 190 2897204 230,414,845 12 Jan. 15, 1907 16734 18654 1564 126 764 42 7816 59 5 Mar. 1,1906122 114 120 111 3 Mar. 1.1906 95 74 92 80 10,000,000 22,000,000 14 Jan. 2.1907 136 13456 1273% 1273% 83,357,100 20,047,000 2 Sept. 30, 1906 216 22,000,000 2 July 30, 1906 64 12,000,000 5 Jan. 2, 1907 402 1,250,000 1 Oct. 15. 1906 174 167 156 124 ( 2% Dec. 21, 1906 88% 76 71,276,500 975% 84 12 Aug. 17, 1906 96 911 96 90 14 Dec. 1, 1906 107 955% 107 8716 6,822,000 4 July 16, 1906 223 206 212 2094 186,345,812 14 Nov. 1,1906 2166 165 232 1794 1 Dec. 1,1899 5334 33 51% 2834 188,810,820 3 Nov. 30, 1906 148 1312 147% 122% 16 Aug. 15, 1906 8784 70 87 75 52,036,000 2 July 15, 1906 112 105 109 100 21 12 18% 134 23,612,000 134 Apr. 25, 1905 80% 45% 62% 50 5,931,000 134 Oct. 1, 1906 185 182 182 173 173

1561⁄2 1361⁄4

1:34 5

185 91 68% 75% 65 114 127 103

162 140 1985 191

3% July 2,1906 190

798 62

119 1133%

1814 12

STOCK LIST AND PRICES OF LEADING STOCKS IN 1906-Continued.

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Union Bag & Paper (a)..

16,000,000

Union Bag & Paper pfd. (a)...

11,000,000

3,000,000 1

Union Pacific

195,460,900

Union Pacific pfd.

99,569,300

United Railways Investment..

19 400,000

100,569,000 15,750,000

5 2

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United States Leather (a).....

62,882,300

5,280,000

United States Leather pfd. (a).

62,282,300

1

United States Reduction & Refining (@).

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United States Reduction & Ref. pfd.(a)..

3.945,800

1

United States Rubber.

25,000,000

1

United States Rubber 1st pfd.

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United States Rubber 2d pfd..

9,586,300

United States Steel

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United States Steel pfd.......

360.281,100 S

Virginia-Carolina Chemical.

27,984,400)

Virginia-Carolina Chemical pfd.

18,000,000 S

Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke........

8,641,600

6,000,000 6,409,000

Vulcan Detinning (a)..

2,000,000

Vulcan Detinning pfd. (a)

Wabash.....

1,500,000 9 38,000,000 7

Wabash pfd.

24,000,000

109,948,000

Wells Fargo Express.

8,000,000

4334 34% 40% 24

65 5134 597% 43 1534 85% 1514 5%

Jan. 15, 1907 8234 68 84 52 Oct. 1, 1906 1514 113, 1953 138% Oct. 1, 1906 1015% 952 9914 91% 92% 2112 98 50 +2 July 2, 1906 942 64% 93% 55 1,194,000 1 Dec. 1, 1906 484 19% 53 43% 134 Dec. 1, 1906 9734 794 96% 84 Nov.15, 1906 134 110 13812 109 16 10% 144 10 Jan. 2, 1907 119 101 117 10284 July 1, 1903 404 18 405% 24 Jan. 1, 1907 734 35 84 60 Apr. 30, 1960 58% 3334 591 38 Oct. 31, 1906 118 983% 115 10434 1% Oct. 31.1906 8:34 75 87 75 Dec. 31, 1906 434 24% 504 325% 14 Nov. 30, 1906 107 9034 11333 9834 14 June 1, 1903 585 2834 58 31 Oct. 15, 1906 11834 103% 117% 164

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Western Union Telegraph t.

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Westinghouse Electric & Mfg.

21,000,000

Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. 1st pfd.

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Wheeling & Lake Erie.

20,000,000

14 Oct. 15, 1906 95% 92

22 Oct. 10, 1906 184 152

1934 15

944 85

176148

12% Oct. 10, 1906 197 187 188 162

2134 16

Wheeling & Lake Erie 1st pfd.

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Wheeling & Lake Erie 2d pfd.

11,993,500

Wisconsin Central...

16,147,900

Wisconsin Central pfd..

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27,127,000

48 36 48% 56 281 20 29% 21 53 20 33 64% 45 64 44

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(a) Unlisted stocks. (b) Report of prices in 1906 is to December 7.

per cent. extra. Half per cent. extra,

*One per cent. extra. † Two

THE WORLD ALMANAC is indebted to " Bradstreet's" for the stock list and prices of stocks,

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF DECEMBER 1, 1906.

INTEREST-BEARING DEBT.

Consols of 1930, 2 per cent.
Loan of 1908-1918, 3 per cent.................
Funded loan of 1907, 4 per cent..
Refunding certificates, 4 per cent.
Loan of 1925, 4 per cent....
Panama Canal loan

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CLASSIFICATION OF DEBT DECEMBER 1, 1906. $595,942,350.00 Interest-bearing debt.. $925,159,250.00

63,945,460.00 116,755,550.00

Debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity.

25,390.00, Debt bearing no interest.

118,489,900.00
30,000,000.00

Aggregate of interest-bearing debt.. $925,159,190.00

DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE

MATURITY.

Aggregate debt on which interest has ceased since maturity....

Aggregate of interest and non-interest
bearing debt..

1,123,205. 26 399,189,719. 28

$1,325,472,174.54

Certificates and Treasury notes offset
by an equal amount of cash in the
Treasury.

.1,103,897,869.00

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$1,118,975.26

DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.

National bank 5 per

1,112,089,869.00

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cent. fund...

Outstanding checks and

$24,512,462.79

National bank notes: Redemption ac

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45,922,015.00
6,865,237.28

Disbursing officers' bal

ances

67,671,412.40

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Post-Office Department
account...

7,051,813.07

Miscellaneous items.....

1.415,480.02

112,809,640.39

Reserve

fund......$150,000,000.00

Silver certificates

$628,059,869.00
477,203,000.00
6,827,000.00

ance...... 231,470,287.02

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Treasury notes of 1890..

Aggregate of certificates and Treasury notes, offset by cash in the Treasury.

$1,112,089,869.00

Cash balance in the Treasury Decem-
ber 1, 1906, exclusive of reserve and
trust funds..

Principal of the Public Debt.

Statement of outstanding Principal of the Public Debt of the United States on January 1 of each Year from 1792 to 1842, inclusive; on July 1 of each Year from 1843 to 1886, inclusive; on December 1 of each Year from 1887 to 1892, inclusive, on November 1, from 1893 to 1905, inclusive, and December1, 1906.

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