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plural milles
- alternativedatedAlternative spelling of mill.
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That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, dismes or tenths, cents or hundredths, and milles or thousandths, a disme being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a mille the thousandth part of a dollar, and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.
1792 April 2, “Chapter XVI. An Act establishing a Mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States”, in Richard Peters, editor, United States Statutes at Large, volume I, Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, pages 246–251
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