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Albert Gallatin

CHAPTER VI
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Silver, then in general use as the measure of value, was adopted as the single standard.

The weight and pureness of the dollar were fixed by law.

The dollar was made the unit of account and payment, and subdivisions were made in a decimal ratio.
This was the dollar of our fathers.

Gouverneur Morris, the assistant of the Financier, suggested the decimal computation, and Jefferson the dollar as the unit of account and payment.

The board of treasury, which for five years had administered the finances in a bungling way, was dissolved by Congress in the fall of 1781, and Morris was left in sole control.


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