THere used to be something calls mills, that were one tenth of a penny. I used to play with them when I was a kid, from my grandparents' collection. Don't know if that is the answer to your question, though. David On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jeanne Arguelles wrote: > On the 1840 tax list, there are three columns for the amount of taxes paid: one for dollars, one for cents, and one for "M", which is always a single digit number. For example, poll taxes were 15 cents and 6 "M". Does anyone know what the M stands for? Is that a fraction of a cent? How would you write that out in normal language? ($0.15 -- and what do you do with the 6 from the M column??). > > Thanks for any enlightenment! > > ~ Jeanne the math dummy > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: > http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html > David W. Morgan [email protected] Honolulu Hawaii CC Representative, SWSC Region, USGenWeb Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/