. Government and politics in Virginia . (Copyright, Underwood &Underwood) BUSY SCENE IN A CITY POSTOFFICEHandling thousands of parcel post packages at the Christmas season not weigh more than twenty pounds. Indeed, the govern-ment will receive and transport for limited distances packagesweighing as much as fifty pounds. The charges for carryingpackages in the parcel post vary with the weight of the packageand the distance it is to be carried. Still another reform inthe postal service has been the establishment of postal COMMERCE, FINANCE, AND INDUSTRIES 151 sa\ings banks. These banks were prov
. Government and politics in Virginia . (Copyright, Underwood &Underwood) BUSY SCENE IN A CITY POSTOFFICEHandling thousands of parcel post packages at the Christmas season not weigh more than twenty pounds. Indeed, the govern-ment will receive and transport for limited distances packagesweighing as much as fifty pounds. The charges for carryingpackages in the parcel post vary with the weight of the packageand the distance it is to be carried. Still another reform inthe postal service has been the establishment of postal COMMERCE, FINANCE, AND INDUSTRIES 151 sa\ings banks. These banks were provided chiefly forthose who were unwilling to put their savings in banks thatwere privately owned and for those who could not convenient-ly do this. The government itself guarantees the safety of. (Copyright, Underwood & Underwood)COUNTING COIN IN THE UNITED STATES TREASURY VAULTSIn the bags here shown there are $156,708,960 in silver dollars; $2,000,000 in half-dollars and quarters; as well as some gold coins, nickels, andpennies. The counting is done largely by weighing the bags the deposits in these banks and pays a low rate of interest onthem. TTHE MONEY SYSTEM. If each state of the Union hadthe power to coin its own money and regulate its own money 152 GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN VIRGINIA system, it is easy to imagine what confusion would should have to keep in mind the value of the coins of forty-eight different states. This would be anno>ing beyond de-scription. For this reason the national government is giventhe power to establish one money system throughout the entire•countr\-. In order that we may be protected against frauds, thenational government itself undertakes to coin the money thatis used by the people and prohibits private individuals fromdoi
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