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Circulating Annuities Table 2old.. upper part.—

Form of a proposed ANNUITY NOTE[1] on the several plans of Yearly and Half Yearly Interest.

Face of the Note nearly the same — on both Plans —

No. — — — [2]

Price and Value
besides Interest
£12,,16s,,0d

Daily
Interest
one
Farthing

Yearly
Interest
£ s d
0,,7,,7

Rate of
Interest
3 per Cent
nearly.

Interest
commences
from
1st January
A.D. 18

Issued
to the
Purchaser
A.D. 18

This Note, price and value twelve pounds sixteen shillings, besides
Interest, intitles the bearer[3] to a farthing per day, from the first of January
last, for ever, out of the Consolidated Fund; but subject to redemption,
on payment of the above sum with Interest.—

The above Interest is paid Yearly[4]: and the Interest of each Year may
be received any time not earlier than [5] days after the last day of such
Year, through the medium of any local Annuity Note Office[6], in Town or
Country: previous application having been made, at the same Office, not less
than [7] days, nor more than [8] days before such last day; and such
other Conditions being observed as may be seen at every such Office.

The Fee to be paid at the Office at the Office on the purchase of this Note is
1d and no more[9]: on exchanging the same for a fresh Note, one farthing.[10] —

Issued at the Principal Annuity
Note Office in St. Margarets
Street Westminster.—
this — — — day
of — — — 1801
by order of me
— — — —
Auditor[11] of His Majesty's Exchequer:[12]
& by the hands of me
— — — —
Issuing Clerk[13.]

Portrait
(Head)
of the
Auditor
of the
Exchequer,
From an Engraving
on Copper:
with a Legend in
the Contour.[14]

No. — — — —[15]

Issued at my local Annuity
Note Office in [16]
— — — —
— — — —
this — — — day
of — — — —
one thousand eight hundred
and one [17]
by me
— — — —
Office Keeper.[18]

N.B.1. By Statute 40G.3.c.15, the faith of Parliament is pledged, that no
Annuity Note, conveying a perpetual redeemable Annuity, payable to Bearer,
shall ever be issued at such price as to give a higher rate of Interest than is
given by this Note[19]: and that no such Annuity Note shall ever be paid off
without the consent of the Holder, while any redeemable Stock Annuities continue unredeemed.

N.B.2. For security, in cases of trust conveyance by Post &c the head piece of this
Note may be separated from the body[20] by cutting it across through the waved line. An
Account of the Uses and purposes of such division[21] may be seen at the said several Offices. —

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To the BOOK BINDER
This Table to front the last page of
CIRCULATING ANNUITIES.

Back of the Note — on the Yearly Plan

By Statute 40G.3.c.15 counterfeiting
&c the Portrait of any Public
Officer on an Annuity Note is Forgery:
the having in ones possession without
special licence any drawing or Plate

Portrait
(Head)
from an
Engraving
on Wood.[23]

&c designed to represent such head
is presumptive evidence of such
Forgery: punishment Death[23]. Like
provisions in respect of the counterfeiting
this type.—[24]

I. Daily Interest or Augmentation Table —[25]

Shewing the value of this Note, for every day in the Year, as the same is increased
by the addition of daily Interest. No Interest for the last day of any year[26]: nor for the 29th of
February in a Leap Year[27]: nor for the day on which the Note is passed.[28]

Day Value

II Underneath is the Register of Yearly Payments of Interest[29]: in which are
set down the several Years of our Lord (if any) for which Interest upon this Note has
been paid by Government.—

If upon the face of the above Register the Interest on this Note, for any number of Years appears
to remain unpaid, to find the total value of it, add to its value for the day, according
to the above Table, the amount of the Interest for the aforesaid number of unpaid
Years according to the following,

III. Yearly Augmentation Table.[30]

Years Interest to add