GENERAL HISTORY. 



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the deposit made at the Bank of 

 England shall be written ; and 

 such certificate or such certifi- 

 cates shall be carried to the office 

 of the paymasters of exchequer 

 bills at the time of making every 

 future payment, the receipt for 

 which shall be written thereon ; 

 and when the whole amount of 

 exchequer bills expressed in such 

 certificate or certificates shall 

 have been acknowledged to have 

 been received by the paymasters of 

 exchequer bills, such certificate 

 or certificates being carried into 

 the Bank of England, and lodged 

 with the governor and company 

 of the said Bank, shall entitle the 

 person or persons holding the 

 same, for every 100^. principal 

 money contained therein, to 6il. 

 capital stock in the 3/. per cent 

 consolidated annuities, the inter- 

 est whereon shall commence from 

 the 5th day of January 1818, but 

 the first payment shall not be 

 made until the 5th day of Ja- 

 nuary, 1819; and to 64'/. capital 

 stock in the 31. per cent reduced 

 annuities, the interest whereon 

 shall commence from the 5th of 

 April, 1818, and the first pay- 

 ment to be made on the 10th of 

 October next, if the subscription 

 shall have been completed on or 

 before the Sid of September 

 next ; but if the subscription shall 

 not be completed until after that 

 time, the first payment shall not 

 be made until the 5th of April, 

 1819. 



" That the interest on all ex- 

 chequer bills which shall be de- 

 posited at the Bank of England, 

 or which may be carried into the 

 office of the paymasters of ex- 

 chequer bills as aforesaid, shall 

 be computed up to the 1st of 



August next inclusive, from which 

 time the same shall cease, and 

 the interest which may be due on 

 such bills from the day of their 

 date up to the said 1st of August 

 shall be paid by the said paymas- 

 ters as soon as conveniently may 

 be after the said bills~shall have 

 been deposited or delivered in. 



" That every such subscriber 

 as aforesaid, who shall be desirous 

 of making up any part of the 

 subscription in money instead of 

 exchequer bills, shall be at liberty 

 to do so, upon paying the same 

 into the Bank of England to tlie 

 account of the paymasters of ex- 

 chequer bills, together with a 

 sum equal to ll. per cent upon 

 such money payment ; and also 

 if such payment should be made 

 after the 1 st day of August next, 

 a further sum, equal to 2(/.per cent 

 per diem on the amount of such 

 payment in money, to be com- 

 puted from the said 1st of Au- 

 gust ; and the paymasters of ex- 

 chequer bills shall, upon the pay- 

 ment to their account being duly 

 certified to them, grant a receipt 

 on the before-mentioned certifi- 

 cate for such payment, in the 

 same manner as if exchequer bills 

 had been brought into their of- 

 fice. 



" That all the monies to be re- 

 ceived by the cashier or cashiers 

 of the governor and company of 

 the Bank of England, or which 

 may be paid into the Bank to the 

 account of the paymasters of ex- 

 chequer bills shall be paid into 

 the receipt of the exchequer, to 

 be applied from time to time to 

 such services as shall have been 

 voted by this House in this ses- 

 sion of parliament. 



" 3. That, towards raising the 



supply 



