1 Includes all movements of unreported origin or destination. At New York-imports, $18,514,000, exports, $12,326,000. Elsewhere-imports, $8,210,000. Kinds of money in circulation [Money outside Treasury and Federal Reserve banks. In millions of dollars] The statutory provision for the gold dollar standard in the United States is section 314 of chapter 8, title 31 (p. 995), Code of Laws of the United States. It reads: "Standard unit of value.-The dollar consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine shall be the standard unit of value, and all forms of money coined and issued by the United States shall be maintained at a parity of value with this standard, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain such parity." (R.S. 3511; Mar. 14, 1900, ch. 41, sec. 1, 31, Stat. 45.) |