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RUSSIA
III. Posts, Telegeaphs, and TelephonJis. The following are the postal and telegraphic statistics for five years :- Internal and Extep.nal Communications.
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Letters and postcards
Book post, i Letters with lieriodicals and money and parcels ' postal orders
1906
1907
1908
1909 .... 1910
886,035,900 967,930,000
1 1,081,918,000 1,209,656,000
I 1,351,956,000
513,757,758 ' 21,911,544 553,095,000 37,582,000 571,291,000 38,628,000 610,926,000 ' 41,828,000 677,553,000 ^ 46,055,000
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Telegraphs
Lines
Wire
Telegrams Carried
1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
Miles 106,146 106,238 119,117 120,865 126,483
Miles 399,743 415,897 415,004 425,969 453,530
Number 156,766,533 161,657,733 163,363,094 181,748,546
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1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Revenue Plxpenditure
74,821,198 46,079,254
77,092,269 46,520,211
80,307,884 50,361,680
88,340,475 56,246,914
98,387,928 62,285,545
Money and Credit.
By an Imperial decree, dated January 3 (15), 1897, it was ordered that the State Bank should accept paper money and exchange it for gold money.
A regular value of the paper currency having thus been introduced, a law was passed on August 29, 1897, to the effect that paper currency may be issued by the State's Bank, when necessity occurs, but on the following conditions : If the amount of paper currency does not exceed 600,000,000 roubles, it must be guaranteed by half that sum ; while every issue above 600,000,000 roubles must be guaranteed to the full amount in gold deposited at the bank. The growth of the paper currency and the fluctuations of the guarantee fund on January 1 (14), of the last five years are represented as follows in millions of roubles : —
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
Paper currency
1,260-0
1,200-0
1,300-0
1,350
1,450
Guarantee fund (in gold) at the Bank and Treasury.
1,169-2
1,220-0
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Cash and gold at the Bank .
l,3-2S-9
1,402-5
1,611-2
1,627-3
1,620-7
