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Excerpt from Abridged Style Manual of the United States Government Printing Office: Issued by the Public Printer Under Authority of Section 51 of an Act of Congress, Approved January 12, 1895 Brace Brackets Colon Comma Dash Ellipsis Exclamation point Hyphen Parentheses Period Question mark Quotation marks Semicolon Single punctuation Tabular work Abbreviations bear-off Blanks box heads Braces Center heads, flush heads, and subheads Ciphers Continued heads Dashes or rules Date columns Ditto Dollar mark Double-up tables Figure column Footnotes and references (see also Headnotes) Fractions Headnotes Leaders Letter-spacing Of words Overruns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.