The Government paid over to him what
money he had earned, and gave him a dress suit and a working suit of
clothes and two changes of underclothing-by those acts of justice giving
him encouragement to become a useful member of society. He was required
to report by a letter once a month to the Governor of the District from
which he came, and the Governor was authorized by law to pardon him when
he thought proper. Those rules and regulations applied equally to both
sexes.
CHAPTER IV.
THE BANK OF EURASIA.
Leaving the prison, I returned to the Capitol and, calling at the
Department of Finance, was given a copy of the laws governing it, and
learned that it operated under the name of the Bank of Eurasia, with
headquarters in the capital, having a branch in every district and in
every town of one thousand inhabitants or more. It paid out all money
owed by the Government and received and receipted for all taxes due, and
accepted all deposits from one dollar upwards, and issued all banknotes
and bills of exchange, and in consequence there were no panics and no
necessity of issuing clearing-house certificates. To avoid the folly of
locking up large amounts of money received for taxes each year on the
one hand, or permitting stock-gamblers and money-sharks, on the other
hand, to use it, each district was allowed by law to issue district
banknotes of one dollar denomination, guaranteed by the Government,
drawing two per cent.
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