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3 Annuity Notes
Plan
Sale
16 continued
II. Sale
17 40 That as often as in the course of any day, or other
interval between one departure of the Post and another it shall
each individual who thus happens to at the
happen at any such Country or Local Office that the number
of Annuity Notes demanded hath exceeded the number in handtime of whose application the supply thus happens
at that Office each individual at the time of whose application
the supply thus happens to haveto have been exhausted, shall on payment of
a guinea by way of deposit or a £1 Bank Note, be intitled to a
certificate in the form of such his application
in the form of a Receipt [5] for the deposit money [5] See a Term for
this Receipt in SS Terms
No
so deposited, in which Receipt shall be signified
a day and intervalportion of time in the day
an interval of time within which it shall be
lawful to him and incumbent on him to apply
for at the by himself or the Bearer of such
Receipt at the same Office: the first day within
such interval of time in each day as shall therein
be also be specified: the first day being the earliest
day on which in the courseestablished of the business, the
Annuity Note may in consequence of the punctual transmission
of the duplicate or memorandum of such
Receipt or Certificate be expected from the Head
Office: at the expiration of which interval, of
no application shall have been for the Annuity
Note so bespoke, the deposit money shall become
forfeited to the Crown, with power tothe Master of the Annuity Note Office to allow to the
extent of on half of the amount it to the Master of the Post Office
at which the failure took place: otherwise, on production
of the Receipt, and payment of the remainder of the purchase money the Annuity Note be
delivered, and the Receipt taken back in Exchange.
17. The the sum required for each Note, shall 17
Interest to the day
to be added to the
principal on purchase
be the principal sum (say of £.6s) with the addition of
the interest thereupon from the first day of that year drawn
the day () whom the application for the purchase of it is made |