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Show uu FOR PAPER CURRENCY. Washington, Jan. 7. To meet the demands for paper currency, the sec-1 rotary of the treasury has asked congress con-gress for an Increase of 112.140 in the appropriation previously asked to defray the cost of purchasing distinctive dis-tinctive paper for United States securities secur-ities in the next fiscal year. This would make a total appropriation of $295,S1S, for the purchase of 53,500, 000 sheets of the paper which afterwards after-wards becomes tho lawful moiley of the land. |