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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... land fit for occupation , may advance rapidly in the years to come - granting all this , would it not be a wiser policy to wait a few years , until their available assets had more effectually overtaken their liabilities , before ...
... land fit for occupation , may advance rapidly in the years to come - granting all this , would it not be a wiser policy to wait a few years , until their available assets had more effectually overtaken their liabilities , before ...
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... Lands ( Net Receipts ) 45 531 295-6 Currency- ( See Banks and Paper Monies . ) Customs ( U.K. ) ... 45 & 47 147-63 Debts- ( See National and City . ) Delaware 645 Diamonds - Cape 227-8 302-3 Dundee 376 55 Edinburgh New South Wales 283 ...
... Lands ( Net Receipts ) 45 531 295-6 Currency- ( See Banks and Paper Monies . ) Customs ( U.K. ) ... 45 & 47 147-63 Debts- ( See National and City . ) Delaware 645 Diamonds - Cape 227-8 302-3 Dundee 376 55 Edinburgh New South Wales 283 ...
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... Land Mortgage Banks Gold Production : - Australia ... Mexico and Bonds ( Russia ) ... 137 & 141 Land Sales ( Government ) .. 137 Lee Conservancy ... New South Wales ... 283 Leeds ... ... New Zealand 300 Leicester ... 32 295-7 56 376 ...
... Land Mortgage Banks Gold Production : - Australia ... Mexico and Bonds ( Russia ) ... 137 & 141 Land Sales ( Government ) .. 137 Lee Conservancy ... New South Wales ... 283 Leeds ... ... New Zealand 300 Leicester ... 32 295-7 56 376 ...
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... Land ( See Cana- Belgium 375 dian Dominion . ) Bermuda 188 St. Catherine's 210-11 Bolivia ... 379 St. Louis 640 , 652 Brazil 387 Santa Fé 354 British Columbia ( in- Savings Banks ( U.K. ) 59 cluding Vancouver's 187 Saxe - Altenburg 465 ...
... Land ( See Cana- Belgium 375 dian Dominion . ) Bermuda 188 St. Catherine's 210-11 Bolivia ... 379 St. Louis 640 , 652 Brazil 387 Santa Fé 354 British Columbia ( in- Savings Banks ( U.K. ) 59 cluding Vancouver's 187 Saxe - Altenburg 465 ...
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... Land Act prevented this measure from becoming law ; but it may , with modifications , be revived . This conversion he proposed to effect as follows : -In the first place , he asked Parliament to empower him to convert imme- diately ...
... Land Act prevented this measure from becoming law ; but it may , with modifications , be revived . This conversion he proposed to effect as follows : -In the first place , he asked Parliament to empower him to convert imme- diately ...
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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.
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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...