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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. —
