The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1864.

VENEZUELA GOVERNMENT SIX PER
CENT. LOAN-4t,500,000.
In Bonds of £5OO, £2OO, and £lOO.

THE GENERAL CREDIT AND FINANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON (Limited)
Beg to announce that they are authori.ed by the Govern-
ment of Venezuela to offer to the public a Loan for that State,
to :he extent of .£1,5:30,000 nominal Capit.tl, upon the follow-
ing terms :
The Bonds will be issued for sums of MOO, £2OO, and £ 00
each. They will bear interest as from the ist October, 1863,
at the rate of six per cent. per annum, with Coup ins attached,
payable halt-yearly, on the Ist April and Ist October at the
Offices of the General Credit and Fivance Company in Lon-
don, in sterling, or at the Offices of era. Salomon Oppen-
beim, jun., and , Cologne, in tnalers, at the exchange of
the day.
The price of issue is £6O per £lOO Stock, and payment will
be required as follows :
£5 on application.
£lO on allotment, less £3 half-year's interest accrued.
£l5 on let June.
15 on let August.
£l5 on ist September, less £3 half-year's Interest accrued,
due lst Octolere

£6O
Discount at the rate ofB per cent. per annum wlllbe allowed
on pre-payments in full, making, with allowances, the price
of issue under £55.
In case of non-allotment, the deposit will be returned,
Should a less amount be a lotted than that applied for, the
deposit will be made availab e towards payment on the
allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant.
The object of the Loan is to effect a settlement of the
general financial condition of the country, to assist in mak-
ing roads and imoroved communications, inland and coast-
wise, to pay off some existing claims, and generally to
develope the agricultural resources and industry of the
c ountry,
The Loans, Interest, and Sinking Fund are secured by a
special hypothecation of the whole export duties leviable at
the ports of the Republic, La Guayra, Puerto Cabello, Mara-
caibo, and Ciudad Bolivar. These are warranted by the Go-
vernment as wholly uncharged (or that. if any claims can be
substantiated, they shall be met out of the proceeds of the
Loan), and as producing more than sufficient to meet the
charge of the present Loan. The produce of the Export
Duties last year is stated to have been £221,500, and an in-
crease is expected. In the event of anydeffiiiency, the amount
is to be made good by a farther special hypothecation of the
uncharged import duties at all the ports of Venezuela.
The consent of Earl Russell has been obtained for the col-
lection of the duties =o hypothecated by her .►i ajesty's Consuls
at he several Ports, associated with the Company's Agents,
and the requisite amount will be transmitted twice a month
to the General Credit and Finance Company of London.
Out of the same, £120,000 a-year will be applied to the pay-
ment of the interest and redemption o' the debt, as follows :
£90,000 to be applied in the first instance to the paymentof
the interest.
£30,000 to a sinking fund ; this amount being augmented
periodically by the interest on bends that shall have been
bought up or redeemed.
The sinking fund shall be applied to the purchase of Bonds
in the open market. it th price is at or below par, or to their
redemption by lot in the usual way, if above liar, year by year
until the whole shall have been paid off.
The first purchase or redemption to take place Ist October,
1864.
The documents relating to the authorisation of the Loan,
and the ratification of the same by the Constituent Assembly
of Venezuela, under date 14th January, 180 I, with Notarial
translations, are open for inspection at the offices of tbe Ge-
neral Credit and Finance Company, 7, Lothbury, where
applications for the Bonds, in the annexed form, will be
received.
Applications will also be received by the London and West-
minster Bank;
By the Union Bank of London
And at Cologne, by Messrs. Salmon Oppenheim, jun., and

Co. ;
Amsterdam, by Messrs. Lippmann. Rosenthal. and Co.
Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be had at 7,
Lothbury, and of the Brokers.
London, 7, Lothbury, April, 1861.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
VENEZUELA. GOVERNMENT SIX. PER CENT. LOAN.
To the General Credit and Finance Company of London
(Limited). . . _

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me
.£ in the above Loan, on which I have made the
required Deposit of 5 per Cent on £ and I
agree to accept that amount of Stock, or any less sum that
may be allotted to me, and to pay the further instalments
thereon, according to the terms ot the prospectus.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant.
Usual signature
Name in full
Profession
Address

VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT SIX PER
CENT. LOAN.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that no farther APPLI.
CATIONS for the BONDS of this LOAN will be received.
after WEDNESDAY next, the 13th hasten.. The Subscrip-
tion at Cologne and Amsterdam closes on the same date.
By order,
R. J. BUTLPR.
General Credit and Finance Company of London,
7, Lothbury, E.C., April 9, 1864.

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THE CITY OF LONDON REAL PROPERTY
COMPANY, Limited.
Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1802.
Capital £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each, with power to
increase.
£1 to be paid on application, and £2los. on allotment.
Any further calls at intervals of not less than three months.
DIRECTORS.
G. Ashhurst, Esq. (Messrs. Smith, White, and Co.)
Charles Belt, Esq. (Messrs. Thomson, B.;nar, and Co.)
Robert Russell Carew, Esq., Westbourne-tei -ace, Hyde-park,
and Carpenter's-park, Watford.
Richard Gibbs, Esq. (Messrs. It. Gibbs and Co.)
Brice W. Pearse, Esq. (Mess s. Alexander, Son, and Co.) •
Meaburn Tatham, Esq. (Messrs. Fyson, Tathams, Curing,
and Walls.)
John Walker, Esq , Director of the London Financial Asso-
ciation.
George Frederick Young, Esq. (Messrs. Young, Son, and
Magli 115%)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co.
Tne Mercantile and Exchange Bank, Limited.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Fyson, Teithamp, Curling, and Walls.
ARCHITECT Ali 2 SURVEYOR,
Richard Bell, r:sq•
BROKERS.
Messrs. J. and A. Scrimgeour.
H. Frisby, Esq., late Foster Brothers and Frisby.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
21, Mincing-lane-
This Company has been formed for the purpose of acquir-
ing real property in London, including leaseholds, for build-
ing thereon, letting, or selling.
Particular attention will be directed to the acquisition of
propertie , in first-rate localities, where, by the erection of
suitable buildings, a large profit can be derived.
With this view a contract has been entered into with a firm
who are amongst the largest private owners in the City of
London, for the purchase of their city properties, iyhich
cover an area of nearly an acre and a halt, and are situated in
Gracechurch-street, Fenchurch-street. Mincing-lane, ant:
Mark-lane. Plans can be seen at the offices ot the solicitors.
In this purchase it is stipulated that the vendors shall
guarantee for a period of years a minimum return upon the
purchase money, which will secure at once a liberal dividend
to the shareholders, and which will be further increased
when the contemplate& improvements are, as they shortly
will be, fully carried out.
The Company wilt have the advantage of borrowing on
their debentures, at rates of interest much under the per
tentage guaranteed ; and for the present it has been arranged
with the vendors that the large; portion of their purchase
money shall remain unpaid at 4 per cent. interest.
It is a peculiarity attached to land in the City that the ex-
tent ot business to be conducted in its very limited space is
daily increasing. The value of the time of successful traders,
and the convenience of particular localities, are found to be
of more moment than epsilon of rent.
The accommodation allotted to the produce markets in the
the neighbourhood of these properties has within the last
few years been doubled,yet the scale ot rent has increased in
a greater degree, and th?Te seems every reason to anticipate
that the demand for first-class offices in these localities will
continue to be in advano cf t supply.
Eight thousand shares are subscribed for, the remaining
twelve thousand are offe7ed to the public.
In case ot no allotment the deposit will be returned.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Directors of tin City of London Real Property

Corcpany, Limited.

Gentlemen,—Having laid into your bankers the sum of
£ , I request that you will allot me shares in the
City of London Real Property Company, Limited, and I
hereby agree to accept tle same or any less number that may
be allotted to me, and topay thecalls in respect of the shares
so allotted when due; aal I authorise yeu to place my name
on the Register of Jileuters for the number of shares al-
lotted.
I am, gentienvn, your obedient servant.
None in
Dofesbion or occupation
Aldress
Dite

THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
SOCIETY (United), and the ANGLO-AUSTRIAN
BANK, are prepared t) receive Subscriptions for the Capital
of the L EMBE tiG-CZERNOWITZ RAILWAY cOM-
PANY (Limited).
Capital £1,250,100, in 62,500 shares of Z2O each.
Under a Guarantee tom the Austrian Government, pro-
ducing a net minimum dividend of 7 per cent. per annum,
payable in silver. _ . _

Provision is made for?ayment by the contractor, Mr. Brassey,
of interest at 6 percent. per annum during construction.
Deposit, £1 on applcation and on allotment; a further
sum of £2 on the st of May, after which date no further
call will be made fcr six months.

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the AGRA
and UNITED SERVICE BANK (Limited), held at the
Bank, 27, Cannon-street, E.C. on Saturday, April 2, 1861—
GEORGE GORDON MACPHERSON, Esq., Chairman, in
the chair.

The notice convening the meeting and the following report
and statement of ace unts were read :

The Directors have tj submit to the shareholders the
audited accounts for the year ended 31st December la4t, and
to report that after making ample provision for all bad and
doubtful debts. the net profits of the bank for the year
amounted to £242,90912s M.

Out of this sum the Directors have declared, free of income
tax, two half yearly dividends at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum each, and have added to the last of these a bonus of
£4 per share, thus inakin a return for the year of 18 per cont.
on the paid-up capital of one million sterling.
From the balance remitining the Directors have refunded
to reserved fund account the sum of £7,311 2s. 4d. taken from
it ast year, and, in consideration of the greatly extended
business of the ba k, have carri,d to credit a further sum of
£2s,ooo,"thus raisin?: that fund to £225,000. They have also
passed the sum of .£5,0(.0 to superannuation fund, and .£15,0e0
to bui'ding fund, carrying forward £10063 10s. 2d to credit
of profit and loss account for the current year.
Since last annual meeting the Directors have purchased
desirable emises in Sydney, an have secured land at
Shanghai, Kurrachee, and Madras, in view to the erection of
suitab e buildings for the branches of the bank at those ports.
The present auditors being eligible for re-election, in terms
of the deed of settlement, offer themselves accordingly.

By order of the Board,

MACKINTOSH BALFOUR, Genera Manager.

(No. 1.;---BALANCE-SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1863.
DR. LIABILITIES.
To paid-up capital
To Reserved Fund 192,658 17 8
To amount due by the Bank for customers'
balances, fixed deposits, acceptances, let-
ters of credit, circuiaz notes, .sc.
To profit and loa .... 242,909 12 6

£10,388,3V9 3 1

CR. ASSETS. _
By cash in hand and at call at head office
and branches £911,853 4 1
By Government securities
By other securities, including specie, bills
purchased, discounts, loans, &c.
Freehold premises in London, Edinburgh,
Calcutta, Bombay, Agra, Lahore, and
Sydney, and leasehold property and build-
ing ground at the other branches 01,071 17 1

.£10,358,399 3 1
G. B. DALBY, Chief Accountant.
(No. 2.)—PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FROM
JANUARY 1, TO DECEMBER 31, 1863.

Dn.
To payment of dividend on paid-up capital
(at 10 per cent. per annum) for half-year
ended 30th June
To do. do. for half-year ending 31st Dec 50,030 0 0
To bonu of .£1 per share BO,OOO 0 0
To amount transferred to Reserved Fund 31,341 2 4
To amount transferred to Building Fund 15,0:0 0 0
To amount transferred to Superannuation
Fund ............
To balance carried forward 10,563 10 2

Cu.
By rrross profits
at Head Offices
Branches to
Dec. 31, 1863—
after making
provision for
bad and doubt-
ful debts ... .L 496,652 6 0
Less interest al-
lowed on cur-
rent and de-
posit accounts 167,505 14 0
—X329,116 10 0
Total expenditure of Head
Office and Branches, includ-
ing rent, income tax, taxes,
stamps. salaries (with a gra-
tuity of 10 per cent. thereon,
to the officers of the establish-
ments at home and abroad,
miscellaneous charges, &c.. 86,239 19 6

£242,003 12 6

£242,90312 6

£212,909 12 6
G. B. DALBY, Chief Accountant.
(No. 3)—RESERVED FUND ACCOUNT, DECEMBER, 31,
1863. •

DR.
To balance at credit of Reserved Fund.... £225,000 0 0

£225,000 0 0

CR.
By amount on 31st December, 1862 - £192,658 17 8
By amount transferred fro Profit and Loss
Account, as above

£225,000 0 0
G. B. DALBY, Chief Accountant.

Wehave examined the preceding statements (Nos. ], 2, and
3) with the books, vouchers, and securities, at the Head
Office, in London, and with the detailed returns and balance
•heets signed by the auditors of the several branche, and
we hereby certify to the correctness and satisfactory character
thereof.
W. FARR, Auditors.
J. HILL WILLIAMS]
London, March 16,1804.

The following resolutions were duly moved, seconded, and
carried unanimously:—

" 1. That the report and statements which have been read
to the meeting and previously circulated to the shareholders
in Europe be adopted.
" 2. That George Gordon Macpherson, Esq., Colonel Henry
Doveton, James Sydney Stopford, Esq., and James Thompson,
Esq. be re-elected Directors
'• S. That John Hill WiLiame, Esq., and William Parr,
Esq., D.C.L., P.R.S., be aud,tora for the present year.
" 4. That. tie thanks of the Shareholders be given to the
Board of Directors for their careful control of the Bank's
affairs; to the General Manager, Mr. Malklntosh Baltour ;
to the London Manager, Mr. Will am Shipman ; and to the
Local Committees and Managers of the Branches, for the
satisfactory manner in which they have conducted the busi-
ness of the Bank for the past year; and to the Auditors for
their efficient supervision of the accounts.
" 5. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chair-
man for his able conduct in the chair."
G. G. MACPHERSON, Chairman.

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