Exchange of all assignations and deposit notes for credit notes: instead of 596 million rubles in assignations, holders were issued 170 million rubles in credit notes or in silver. To facilitate the exchange, a metallic fund of 70.5 million rubles was created. With each new issue of credit notes, the exchange fund was also to increase, amounting to no less than one third of the nominal value of the credit notes put into circulation. The emission operation was left entirely in the hands of the treasury.
DOSTOEVSKY, F. M. graduated from the officer classes of the Engineering School and obtained a post in the engineering department. He would not remain in service long and would soon resign. He would live very poorly all the time, sometimes receiving fairly substantial sums from home; these money would be spent very quickly.
NIKITA MIKHAILOVICH MURAVYOV (born 1795) died; a Decembrist, one of the founders of the Union of Salvation and the Union of Welfare.
In 1843, Morse received a subsidy of $30,000 to build the first telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington.