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United States Missouri
Depreciated Currency Rating
31~ unpaid
US.NOTES
Applied in
Chicago
ToChillicothe, Missouri, 7April,1867-23 days
Glasgow letter departed Liverpool 11 April aboard Allan Line ship North American,
additional transit 12 April, Londonderry, lreland. Arrived 26 April, Portland, Maine.
F orwarded in closed bag to Chicago where rated and forwarded by rail to Chillicothe.
3t U.S. debited for British inland applied in Liverpool. Chicago packet "24," "31/U.S.
NOTES" and manuscript "Due 31 f' applied in Chicago. Allan Line (Canadian) ship
contracted to carry mail as American packet. Of the 24t rate due, U.S. retained 16t sea
rate as American Packet and St inland.
Depreciated Currency
U.S. rates set in gold currency. The Chicago Exchange Office restated depreciated pape1·
currency (U.S. NOTES) at the day's gold to paper ratio of 1.29 x 24t = 3 lf Restated by
the Chicago post office clerk in pencil, "Due 31"
Earliest recorded date of 31 US. Notes marking.
Chillicothe, in north central Missouri, name is Shawnee for "big town," and is a rural farming area 450 miles from the Chicago station.
