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Circulating Annuities Table old upper part.—
Form of a proposed ANNUITY NOTE[1] on the several plans of Yearly and Half Yearly Interest.
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 cum with Interest.—
The above Interest is paid Yearly[4]: and the Interest of each Year may be received any time not earlier that [5] days after the last day of each 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, onte 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. — — — —
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 on 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 of 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
