True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-07-06
JUST PUBLIsHEDFRoM STEREOTYPE pL1TEs,

The Frth Edifiono'
RONLETTS TABLES OF INTEREST:
sIO which is now ateed an Average Time Caeula-
tor easy methods for finding the average time .
n storage notes Of aad or bills of goods when plr- D
based at different dates different credits and for
aious amounts besides susetul and complete Banking
line Tale, the best That can be courived sr that f.
ures can pr nlce within the conesend compass,
nd size ofppe.
An advertisement in the book is in nearly the follow
ng woras
The high distinction this work has received through
he ten acts prexed to the title page re-
,ommendSton in ITSELF so uncommon, and so eoncu-
sive, tn nothing is necessary more than by way of nd
vertsemen to gvea condensed view of some OF its ne
as fer instance the Interest has been
ed from, and cmpared with, what is equivalent to four
teen sets ct calculations, examined in the press thirty
f7e tines and printed from tereoype plates tested
thiryty-one times, from all which it mnst be evident
even to the skeptc Especially tho pc sonal of the de-
tail %! proof in the pretace that the work must lie ari,h-
metcay infallib'e, and in confirmation of this beefa
premium OF two hundred and itv dollars, now Offer
cdfnr the detection OF of in the present
fifth edition. as expressed in tie preface making five
large plemons offered for the same error since tho first
publication in the year 1909.
One ct tho most conspicuous features of The tables is
in the arrangement of the Time and Amounts, which |
for expeditions, reference ondpespieity with the help
of the side and index, be exceed and the salty
ty and with which the interest can be found to the
extent of general business, without doubling of sums
isbesdes convenience 50 essential, that in the estma-
tion of some OF the most competent and prct cal bust
men and public officers who have made great use
of the work, has been distinguished hy tho honorable
appea,ion efOfa ''master ploce'. And considering
the infability of the method originally adopted in
composing the work, and the extraordinary lumber and
variety OF the examinations, and tests of every edition
has rassedn the press Notwithstanding the whole is in
stereotype considering, in short, he positive accuracy
secured by the unprecedented means employed the
lume has heen heldup and emphatically styled the
most wonderful book in the wssk;" most certainly no
man can nanea figure work OF the same extent, which
since the beginning of creation, has had the
her ana variety of tests in the number of editors;
no, nor hall the number is clearly shown in the
preface
Resides rs test and standard it has bces tried and
proceed in nearly all the bank and public cices in the
United States, and by the public generally during the
long period ct hir-hve yet error Of The cal
cnla,ions has been found in print although continue
ally challenged by the offer of very large premiums
The hookis in fact expressly adopted by all the
Oh law cl several olhc States AS the rate of calculation
for statute interest,"" also by law for bank interest,
according as the book is used, and pay he in
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1t moreover well known that, by its reary check,
tas so otteudetected large errors, long after they
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