An abatement in payment. Not in the Century Dict.
1853. Those claims [are to be paid] according to the scalage of the State of Texas…. Those creditors who have their scalage at the highest rate will take issue of stock…. [This] is the sum requisite to pay all the demands according to their face, before the scalage took place…. Gentlemen will come in, who have got their scalage at 87 and a half cents on the dollar.—Mr. Clarke and Mr. Houston, U.S. Senate, March 1: Cong. Globe, p. 961.
