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Show UNCLE SI'S FUNDS COUNTED AFTER . 12JEARS Retiring Treasurer Burke Takes Receipt for Three and a Half Billions WASHINGTON", Feb. 4. A complete count of the government' caah has Jujit been made for the first time In twelve yearn." The total" approximated S3.COO.OOO.0oc and included all caah and securities held as reserves against currency outstanding, j The count wan mad by a apeclal committee of three, aaalated by eight j accountanta. and by fifteen laborers, j who were used to mave around' the, heavy aacka of gold and ailver. The men delved Into great vaults In the trM)iury hulblina- and took gtork iff colli, ailver and paper money and se-euritle. se-euritle. many of which had not seen the light of day since ahortly after William Howard Tuft wu Inauirurat- j ed president and a new treasurer of the Tutted States appointed In 1900. The accountanta in entering; the vault a pawed jrrlmv tanged guards, who, day and night, "ait on the lid" to prevent any poaalble attempt a at an unauthorized raid on the treasury. treas-ury. The vaulta themselves are supposed sup-posed to be burglar proof and are of ma.Hsivp rnncreet and 8tei construction. construc-tion. The Ktorng sections are kept UTiffAr"iniriT,""aniT"Trilw"wn "Wis; "Trsf time " that some of them had been opened In twelve years; for when John Il'irke became treaaurer after President Wil-aon Wil-aon waa flint inaugurated, he accepetd the count of cash In the storage section sec-tion which had not been opened since ; LL SORTS OF MONEY. The accountanta handled money of every posaible denomination, from the , lowly copper to $10,000 billa. Many of 1 1 the bllta. pfirtlcwlftrly those, of the j larffe d nomlnatlona. auch ua $!0'n, J were In aheeta of four each and held fia reaerte axalnat currency of smaller j dnominattonM In circulation. Thou- I aand dollar bills In circulation are few, j and each bank In the country la kept , aupplld by the treasury with a lint I of them, with their numhera. ao that j if. perchance, any are extracted from the treaaury lllecally, the holder will have extreme difficulty in realizing on i them. ' The count Just finished wan made neceaaary by the retirement of John , Iturke aa treaaurer and waa completed In the remarkably ahort time of three j thr""rh th- line of cN-ctric I rountlnK machine. loHe cilna paa.ed throufth these machines. Instead of be- i In counted by hand, as was neceaaa- t ry In the o'den days. Paper currency J waa counted by the piece, but stored r coins and currency were counted by I (! the sack or packaite In caaea where j S the wrappings were unbroken and the seat on each Intact. I The main supply of the Rovern- e ment's money Is stored In two large L vaults, but there are a number of j n smaller ones In the various divlHions,t of the department, as well as in the D cash rooms whens cash payments nre- 5 made by the government. j COUNTING BY WEIGHT. ..(0 (fold coins stored In the vaults were j counted by welfrhf. The gold la kept in j-aacka, j-aacka, sealed with the treasurer's waxjO M'fll and containing IfiOOO each, weigh-jft Ing attout 18 pounds and 7 minr s. t Klrst one aack waa weighed and then ! I the others were examined. If both the!-aeal the!-aeal and covering were found Intact, they were weighed against the flrat, if or test, sack, and If the result waa the c same, were passed aa counted, flow-, ' P- ever. If -a. aeai waa iiroken. or the aack j i torn, or there waa apprechibte dtffer-e ence in weight, the content were ! ft counted by the piece. j T Standard ailver dollars were count-1 ed In the same way as the gold coin, j (C They are stored in sacks containing c 1000 and weighing about sixty pound j Work on the silver coin was leadened, officials aald, by the government's' melting 100.000,0"0 silver dollars unfT the I'Utnmn act for sale to the Hrttish government to relieve the ailver fam-: b ine In India during the war. f Paper money is stored in' paper ! 5 Packages making a cube of about 7Vt j&j incheg each way and containing 4000 , j mlea.r--tm each package-4a--ttampel J rk the amount and the denomination of . & the. notes inclosed A wax seal Is '(n tar Tied. Kxcept where a broken seal j b or package necessitated an actual fj 'count of the contents, the paper In the j si Itaulta was counted by the package. i& COUNTING BY PACKAGE. W Sealed packages of paper money are S' I1 accepted from the bureau of engraving bj and printing as correct when the j L; wrspping are inta-t. because the la-j sue division of the treasury main- I i tains gn office In the bureau, and. IniJ i reality, counts all the paper money 'before it leaves the bureau. . 1 1 Coins of srnaMt r denominations I lqu.rter, .limey, nickels and coppers, j- Ktorcil ifi packs were counted In thej came niHnti'T as the silver nnd icold. by ink ! rc the weight of a teat sack fur each denomination and weighing the othr aacka aRiiinat n, I 'pon completUu. of i he count the aloruye compartments of the vaults i were h nltit with Hie seal of the special spe-cial cotntoiitee and a receipt was KUen to Mr. liurke, the retirina- treaaurer, by .ii y K. AUcu. his succeasor, fjr ilhe caxh and securities of the aovern- ment held in the treasury. When he 'aliened the receipt the actinjr treas-j treas-j urer became p;roiiaIly re(fr.slble fur the safekeeping rf all the cah and se-icurittea se-icurittea in tite buildiiii;. ; The new treasurer was represented on the special count In committee bv i i1'. K. Itepiiert. vault clerk f the c.ish , division of the treasurer's ifP.ce. C. ! N. Mc:roaty, chief of the diviHifn of loan and currem y. waa chairman of I i the committee, and, with John Mmin. ! chief of the coupon surrender section I of that division, re presented the secretary sec-retary of the. .treasury. , |