["Uncle Sam's mail is not very trustworthy where cash remittances are concerned! When money is sent through the mail, the notes had best be cut in two, and mailed at different times, registering the letters."
Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar for 1860 pg. 13]
I think now it is a federal offense to willingly destroy cash, isn't it? I wonder if during the 1860s this was acceptable? I wonder, if for instance, you paid for a 50 cent item with a dollar bill, you could receive half a bill as change? Seems rather unlikely, but they were doing sillier things with money back then.
Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar for 1860 pg. 13]
I think now it is a federal offense to willingly destroy cash, isn't it? I wonder if during the 1860s this was acceptable? I wonder, if for instance, you paid for a 50 cent item with a dollar bill, you could receive half a bill as change? Seems rather unlikely, but they were doing sillier things with money back then.