Fenn's Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds, Debts and Revenues of All Nations: Together with Statistics Relating to National Resources & Liabilities, Imports, Exports, Population, Area, Railway Guarantees, Municipal Finance & Indebtedness, Banks of All Nations, and All Descriptions of Government, Provincial, and Corporate Securities Held and Dealt in by Investors at Home and Abroad; the Laws and Regulations of the Stock Exchange, &c ... |
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... applied to London and to Paris ; and it is only by contrasting our holdings of such investments twenty years ago with those of the present day , that we can form any adequate idea of the vast growth of foreign indebtedness to us during ...
... applied to London and to Paris ; and it is only by contrasting our holdings of such investments twenty years ago with those of the present day , that we can form any adequate idea of the vast growth of foreign indebtedness to us during ...
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... applied with advantage . But as it stands , such a record tells us comparatively little . A second and most necessary criticism upon the foregoing tables is that the nominal capital is no adequate measure of a nation's debts . The ...
... applied with advantage . But as it stands , such a record tells us comparatively little . A second and most necessary criticism upon the foregoing tables is that the nominal capital is no adequate measure of a nation's debts . The ...
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... applied towards the reduction of the National Debt by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose ; and that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury should , every quarter , make up accounts of the annual revenue for the four preceding ...
... applied towards the reduction of the National Debt by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose ; and that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury should , every quarter , make up accounts of the annual revenue for the four preceding ...
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... applying revenue surpluses was superseded , and it was decreed that the surplus of any financial year should be wholly applied to purchases for redemption in the following year . return obtained by Mr. Childers showed " the estimated ...
... applying revenue surpluses was superseded , and it was decreed that the surplus of any financial year should be wholly applied to purchases for redemption in the following year . return obtained by Mr. Childers showed " the estimated ...
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... applied half - yearly up to 1912 , when the final repayment will be made . The amount outstanding on 31st March , 1882 , was £ 3,663,900 . Treasury Bills . In 1877 , under 40 Vict . , c . 2 , powers were taken to create a new form of ...
... applied half - yearly up to 1912 , when the final repayment will be made . The amount outstanding on 31st March , 1882 , was £ 3,663,900 . Treasury Bills . In 1877 , under 40 Vict . , c . 2 , powers were taken to create a new form of ...
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Popular passages
Page 629 - ... shall be exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority...
Page 67 - England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their Bills or Notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof.
Page 84 - Memorandum as aforesaid kept, contained, or entered therein, every such Banker or other Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds: Provided always, that the said Commissioners shall not exercise the Powers aforesaid without the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
Page 70 - ... ill-founded or exaggerated alarms in different parts of the country, it appears that, unless some measure is immediately taken, there may be some reason to apprehend a want of a sufficient supply of cash to answer the exigencies of the public service...
Page 80 - ... any banker who was on the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, carrying on the business of a banker in England or Wales, and was then lawfully issuing, in England or Wales, his own bank notes, under the authority of a licence to that effect, to continue to issue such notes to the extent and under the conditions hereinafter mentioned, but not further or otherwise...