Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — Wooden Money. [ARTICLE]

Wooden Money.

;Frpm the tyigp qf’Henry the period: of the Establishment of the Bank of 'ilngJafid; l Wf fnpriey of England was manufactured but of wobff. This instrumqqt waft called-eftbhanga tdlly, and by virtue of it the hejdef was entitkd to receive frbip, the Drown the value inscribed thereon. It reafly Consisted of one-haif of aj Or staff. op in its Entire steto, the sum it injrported la ..was carved in transverse fiotenes, varying in wjdth for thbusdniKf,' .HufidrMs,. stores, pounds, shillings and peMpt.i Tlidse signa •- were for tjie unleatfifed; flfl- thcitidviialngn ( of those who read,, the^um,;was, written In inkwtwo opposite spiel of the . staff, and, finally, with a knife and mallet' the staff itself* was split in Wd. tongitwity nally. . Opq-Jiatt,, cabled thqpilly or che?k, 0 was given to the person fpr whose service ■ it was intended; tffij other hMf, Called tile counter tally/was laid up Jn safe-kCeping until its corresponding" tally should be brought in hy; the PWSW vjho (had/ givCri value for it its intrinsic value yvas, of cdftrSe, duty that: of. the Wood* of which it Was composed, 1 biit%y represWtatibn it denoted large sums, u o »" It wm a current V?f;erj qf, real raoaey, > primitive tally was derived the ExthehfuA-' Bill, first introduced in 1696 by Mr. Montague, then Chancellor, of tlie.Exchequqv* The word “bill, ’’ too/was nd doubt obtainod ftorti ’the Nonhan : French won/ bi ie,'which means-a staff. Bank post bills of yxKhange.iip. ojy yown day en “ billeHT or tellies to* the Metunhfrs Wp on whom,|hey t ;vgere qwmJftfiA- p In olden with exchequer tallies; br wooden numey. Exchange. ■ <»» : di , oiMfi ■W&.nroT */ tried to gte- inter jjjs oveit' padret and , hia youfhful Orhant' Bulletin. a vpty saMj to her lately, the subject of conversation being a recently tnarried iadyr—“ Ah, thatwua nrocratinairitbwhietehe toflntedbp these