As the currency in California is dollars, not pounds, we must ask our readers to accustom themselves to dollars.

In monetary arrangements it was not indeed practicable at once to declare the Roman currency to be the only valid tender in the islands; but it seems from the first to have obtained legal circulation, and in like manner, at least as a rule, the right of coining in precious metals seems to have been withdrawn from the cities in Roman Sicily.(7)

Probably a brush with the Indians, or the more to be dreaded Mexican bandits (for these stages carried treasuregold and silver, the currency of the country), was the cause of the delay.

The Currency; the Mint.%Quite as marvelous was the change which in five and twenty years had taken place in money matters.

In politics it was a supporter of Lord Liverpool's Government; but public distress, the currency, trade and commerce were subjects of independent comment.

If this view be correct, the currency of the District, should this act become a law, will certainly and greatly deteriorate, to the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor.

In 1789 the currency was foreign coins and state paper.