2.75% Note due 2005



 Exhibit 4(c) 
  
 2.75% Note due 2005 
  
 MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION 
  
 CUSIP: 583334 AC 1 

	 No. 001 
	 $175,000,000 


  
 MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”, which term includes any successor corporation under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $175,000,000 Dollars on December 1, 2005, and to pay interest thereon from December 1, 2003, or from the
most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on June 1 and December 1 in each year commencing June 1, 2004, at the rate of 2.75% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available
for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the May 15 or November 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.








 Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the
offices or agencies of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check drawn upon any Paying Agent and mailed on or prior to an Interest Payment Date to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register. 
  
 Reference is
hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
  
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof, directly
or through an authenticating agent, by the manual signature of an authorized officer, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed. 
  
 Dated: December 1, 2003 
  

	 MEADWESTVACO CORPORATION

		
	 By:
	 	     /s/    Cynthia A.
Niekamp


	 	 	 Name:
	 	 Cynthia A. Niekamp

	 	 	 Title:
	 	 Senior Vice President and
 Chief Financial Officer



  

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 TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 
  
 This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in
the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  
 Dated: December 1, 2003 
  

	 THE BANK OF NEW YORK
as Trustee

		
	 By:
	 	     /s/    Kisha A. Holder


	 	 	 Authorized Signatory



  

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 [REVERSE OF SECURITY] 
  
 This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”),
issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of April 2, 2002 (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term
includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the
Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregated
principal amount to $175,000,000. 
  
 The Company may not redeem
this Security prior to its maturity. 
  
 If an Event of Default
with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. 
  
 The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the
Holders of a majority in the aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series (voting together as a single class) to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series (voting together as a single class) at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the 








 
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security. 
  
 No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. 
  
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is
registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security are payable, duly
endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities
of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 
  
 The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same. 
  

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 No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
  
 Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 This Note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of
the State of New York without giving effect to applicable principles of conflict of laws to the extent that the application of the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby. 
  
 All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture. 
  

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 ABBREVIATIONS 
  
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they
were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations. 
  

	 TEN COM
	 	 - as tenants in common

		
	 TEN ENT
	 	 - as tenants by the entireties

		
	 JT TEN
	 	 - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common


  
 UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ____________________Custodian ____________________ 
 (Cust)                                      
                          (Minor) 
 Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act 
  
 _________________________ 
 (State) 
  
 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 







 ASSIGNMENT 
  
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
                                    
                                        
                     PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 
  

	 	


  

	 	


  

  

 (Please print or typewrite name and address
including postal zip code, of assignee) 
  
 the within Security and all rights
thereunder, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints 
  

  

  

 to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

	 Dated:

	 	  


		
	 	 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or
any change whatsoever.