GENERAL HISTORY. 



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to be computed from the day of 

 completing the same to the 5th 

 day of March 1819. 



" That ever}'^ person who shall, 

 on or before the 2nd of June 

 1818, have transferred to the ac- 

 count of the commissioners for 

 the reduction of the National 

 Debt the whole of the 3/. per 

 cent consolidated or reduced an- 

 nuities subscribed by him, shall 

 be entitled to the principal sum 

 of 88/. in annuities at the rate of 

 31. 10s. per cent for every 100^ 

 31. per cent annuities so transfer- 

 red, such annuity at the rate of 

 3l. 10s. per cent, to commence 

 from the 5th of April 1818 ; and 

 every person who shall after the 

 2nd day of June and before the 

 27th of November, have transfer- 

 red to the account of the said 

 commissioners the whole of the 

 3/. per cent consolidated or re- 

 duced annuities subscribed by 

 him, shall be entitled to the prin- 

 cipal sum of 88/. in annuities at 

 the rate of 3/. 10^. per cent for 

 every 100/. of 3l. per cent annui- 

 ties so transferred, such annui- 

 ties at the rate of 31. 10s. per 

 cent, to commence from the 10th 

 of October 1818 ; and every per- 

 son who shall, on or before the 

 5th of March 1819, have paid to 

 the chief cashier or cashiers of 

 the governor and company of the 

 Bank of England the sum of 11/. 

 in money for every 100/. of 3/. 

 per cent annuities subscribed by 

 him, shall be entitled to the far- 

 ther principal sum of 12/. in an- 

 nuities at the rate of 31. 10s. per 

 cent for every sum of 11/. so 



fiaid, such annuities to commence 

 rom the Sth day of April 1818 ; 

 and such annuities at the rate of 

 Si. 10s, per cent per annum shall 



not be reduced, nor shall the 

 principal sum of such annuities 

 be paid oft", at any time before 

 the 5 th day of April 1829. 



" That the commissioners for 

 the reduction of the National 

 Debt be authorized and required 

 to purchase the said annuities 

 after the rate of 3/. 10s. per cent 

 in the proportion of at least 1/. 

 per cent per annum on the capi- 

 tal to be created, whenever the 

 principal sum of 100/. of such 

 annuities can be purchased for 

 less than 100/. in money. 



" That the annuities at the 

 rate of 3/. 10s. per cent shall, 

 under the provisions of an act 

 made in the 57th year of his pre- 

 sent majesty, intituled ' An Act 

 to pei'mit the transfer of capital 

 ' from certain Public Stocks or 

 ' Funds in Great Britain to cer- 

 < tain Public Stocks or Funds in 

 ' Ireland,' be transferrable into 

 annuities at the rate of 31. lOs. 

 per cent, payable and transferra- 

 ble at the Bank of Ireland ; and 

 every person transferring such 

 annuities payable at the Bank of 

 England shall be entitled for 

 every 100/. so transferred to the 

 principal sum of 108/. 6s. 8d. in 

 annuities at the rate of 3/. 10s. 

 per cent payable at the bank of 

 Ireland. 



" That every person who shall 

 have completed the transfer to 

 the account of the commissioners 

 for the reduction of the National 

 Debt of the whole of the 3/. per 

 cent consoHdated annuities sub- 

 scribed by him, shall be entitled 

 to a dividend or interest at the 

 rate of 15s. for every principal 

 sum of 100/. in such 31. per cent 

 consolidated annuities which may 

 have been so transferred, such 

 •j- dividend 



