Purchase duty already repealed

In 1894 the Sherman purchase duty is already repealed. Bryan’s free-silver campaign is 1896. The gold-dollar statute is 1900.

Ten-dollar Treasury note of 1890. The purchase duty that issued these notes was repealed in 1893.Public domain.

The duty to purchase silver under the Sherman Act was repealed in 1893. It is not revived this year.

William Jennings Bryan’s campaign for free silver is 1896. The Gold Standard Act, defining the dollar as 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine, is 1900.