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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... authorised to be contracted for to the amount of £ 2,800,000 . The Bank of England agreed to take a part of this annuity , to the amount of £ 585,740 per annum , for which they paid , between 1823 and 1828 inclusive , £ 13,089,419 . The ...
... authorised to be contracted for to the amount of £ 2,800,000 . The Bank of England agreed to take a part of this annuity , to the amount of £ 585,740 per annum , for which they paid , between 1823 and 1828 inclusive , £ 13,089,419 . The ...
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... authorised to sell any immediate annuities , or any temporary annuities , or any deferred annuities ( except that no deferred annuities can be granted under the provisions of the said Act for any certain limited term of years , to ...
... authorised to sell any immediate annuities , or any temporary annuities , or any deferred annuities ( except that no deferred annuities can be granted under the provisions of the said Act for any certain limited term of years , to ...
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... authorised to double its capital . The sum of £ 400,000 was lent to Government ; and from the 1st August , 1711 , the rate of interest upon the total debt was to be at 6 per cent . per annum . 1709 , 1710. - The capital of the Bank was ...
... authorised to double its capital . The sum of £ 400,000 was lent to Government ; and from the 1st August , 1711 , the rate of interest upon the total debt was to be at 6 per cent . per annum . 1709 , 1710. - The capital of the Bank was ...
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... authorised to increase its note circulation to the amount of two - thirds the country circulation expunged . This Act further prohibited the creation of any new banks of issue in any part of the United Kingdom , as well as the issue of ...
... authorised to increase its note circulation to the amount of two - thirds the country circulation expunged . This Act further prohibited the creation of any new banks of issue in any part of the United Kingdom , as well as the issue of ...
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... authorise and empower the said Governor and Company to increase the Amount of Securities in the said Issue Department ... authorised to issue under the Provisions of this Act ; and every such Order in Council shall be published in the ...
... authorise and empower the said Governor and Company to increase the Amount of Securities in the said Issue Department ... authorised to issue under the Provisions of this Act ; and every such Order in Council shall be published in the ...
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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...