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PRINCIPLES OF DEPRECIATION BY EARL PH.D.A. SALIERS, Assistant Professor ofAccounting, Sheffield School Taleof UniversityScientific (Second Printing) RONALD ACCOUNTING SERIES \\ NEW YORK COMPANYTHE RONALD PRESS 1916COPYRIGHT 1915 by RONALD PRESS COMPANYTHE William G. Hewitt PrintersPress, Brooklyn, F. New BindersJ. Tapley Co., York,