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London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOW#S, 44119arY.

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EAST INDIA HOUSE, March 23, 1853:
THE COURT of DIRECTORS :of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY REPUBLISH, for the information of Pro-
' Prietors in Europe of the Five per Cent. Stock of the Transfer Ldan
of 1..d1a, the following Notification, which has been issued by the
Government of India, and published in the "Calcutta Gazette Extfa-
ordinary" of the 22d of January, 1853.
Fort William Financial Department, Jan. 22, 1853}
NOTIFICATION. •
No. I.—Notice is hereby given, that the Five per Cent. Transfer
L,att, comprising the book debt of December 31st, 1834; the boo:: diht
of the 10th August, 1635 ; the book debt of the 15th January, 181 ;
and the promissory notes of the loan dat d the 31st December, 18:A;
will be dis :barged on the 22d day of .A pril, 1854, when payment will
be made at the option of the creditors, either in cash is India, or 'Ay
bills on the Honourable the Court of Directors; at twelve months'
- date, and two shillings and ono penny per glees rupee, with power tto
the Court to postpone payment of those bills for one, two, or throe
years, upon alloWing interest at five per cent. per annum for the
• period of postponement.
No. 2.—ln accordance with the advertisement of the Governmeht
of India in the financial department of. the 17th June, 1835, Allis
• notice of payment shall be considered, as equivalent to a tender of
• payment on •the• Said 22d day of April, 1854, and all interest will
cease from that day.
- No. 3.—Proprietors of the stock and promissory notes in the Fire
per COnt. Transfer Loan will be permitted, on or before the 22d day
of Jury, 1853, to subscribe the amount of such stock or promissory
notes lute a new, loan;Ito be held in the foim of stook, and to bear an
interest at the rate of four per cent..per annum from the said 22nd
day of April, 1854. Such interest to be paid to proprietors resident
_ in India at the place of registry, and, If resident in Europe, at their
• option either in cash in India or by bills -on the court, at twelve
. months' date, and two shillings and one penny the sicca rupee.
• -No. 4.—Proprietors whci may subscribe their Five per Cent. Trans-
' fer Loan Stock or promissory notes of that loan into the Four. per
Cent. Transfer Loan, shall not be subjected, on this operation, to the
fees prescribed in the rules for the government agency:
No. s.—The stock 'of the new loan will be tranferable only in books
to-be kept in Bengal, at Madras, at Bombay, and in London, and not
by endorsement of stock receipts ; and the stock accounts may, at
the option cf the proprietors, be transferred from the books in India
to the books in London, and vice versa, as in the case of stock of
• tho Five per Cent. Transfer Loan. . . _

No. 6 —After the transposition of stock accounts to the London
books, the interest payable on such stock will be issued at the East
India House, at the rate of two shillings and one penny per alcca
rupee, by dividend warrants, payable at the Bank of Eng!and, at the
same time as when the bills would have become due had the remit-
tance of interest previously been recelved'hy bills of exchange drawn
upon the Court, under the option allowed in the 3rd article of the pre-
sent notice.
No. 7. Proprietors of- Stock in the Five per Cent. Transfer Loan,
Whose accounts may be open in the London books on the 22d day of
' Aprll, 1854, who shall not, on or before the 22d day of. July, 1853,
express their assent in writing, at the Eisf India House in. Lendon,
to the conversion of their Five per Cent: Tranger Loan Stock into
Stock of the Four, per Cent. Transfer Loan, will receive paymeir of
their princiPal, together with the interest flue thereon, up to the 22d
' day of April; 1854; by a cash payment in London, on the 25th day of
April, . 1855, the date at which the bills would become due if the
remittance of principal and interest wt re made fr m India by means
of bills of exchange drawn upon the Court of Directors ; the Court,
however, reserving to themselves, in accordance with,the stipula-
Bonin the-first article of this notice, the Power to postpone payment
..,of such principal for one, two, or three years, upon allowing interest
at five per cent. per annum for the period of postponement. '
•• • = No part of the Four per Cent. Transfer Loan khan be paid
off before the 22d day of April, 1874 ; and whenever it shall be
redeemed, a previous notice of fifteen months shall be given by
public advertisement, which notice may be issued at any time
after the 21st of January, 1873 ; payment shall then be made at the
option bf creditors, either in cash in India, or by-bills upon
the Court of- Directors, at twelve months' date, and two
shillings. and.. one penny the sicca rupee; with power to the '
Court to postpone payment of those bills for one, two, or
tkree years, upon allowing interest of four, per cent. per annum for
the period of postponement. The notice of payment, duly adve,r-
-- tised as above, and,pnblished in the Government Gazette of Cal-
cutta, shall be considered as equivalent to -a tender• of payment on
the date adiertised for discharge; and all, interest will cease from
that day. • •
No. 9. .Proprietors of Stock in the Fearpei Cent. Transfer Loan,
WhoSe stock Accounts may be open on the London books On the-22d
day of April, 1874, will be paid the amount of principal, together
with -the interest due thereon up to that date, by a cash payment in
London,!on the 25th day of April, 1875, at the rate of. two shillings
and one penny the sicca rupee ; such payment of principal to be
subJeetto the power of postponement upon the conditions mentioned
in the preceding article. •
.. By order of the Most Noble the Governor
General of India in Council,
J.•A. DOBIN, Secretary to the Government-of India.
The Court of - Directors also give notice, that .Proprietors, to
't!rilum it may be inconvenient to attend at the East India Rouse
to signify their assent to the Conversion of their Stock of the
,Flye per Cent. Transfer. Loan into Four per Cent. Stock, under
Article 7 of the aboVitt notification, may obtain a proper form- for
Signature by making it written - application, "addressed to ,the Secre-
tary, at the East-India House. •
. JAMES C. MELTILL, Secretary.

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