The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-03 00:00:00

RUPEES,

"The Governor-General of India in Council does hereby
acknowledge to have received from the sum of
Company's Rupees as a Loan to the Secretary
of State in Council of India, and does hereby promise, for and
on behalf of the said Secretary of State in Council, to repay
the said Loan by paying the said sum of Company's Rupees
to the said his (or her' or their,'
as Vie case may be) Executors or Administrators, or his (or
her,' as the case may be), or their order, on demand, at the
General Treasury of Fort William, after the expiration of
three months' notice of payment, to be given by the Governor-
General of India in Council in the " Calcutta Gazette," and to
pay the interest accruing on the said sum of Company's
Hapees at the rate of Five-and-a-Half per
centum per annum, by Half-yearly payments, at the General
Treasury of Fort William, to the said or his (or
her' or their,' as the case nay be), Executors or Adminis-
trators or his (or her,' as the ease may be) or their order,
until the expiration of three months after such notice of pay
ment as aforesaid, when the amount of Interest due will be
payable with the Principal, and (such notice being considered
as equivalent to a tender of payment at the period appointed
for the discharge of this Note) all further Interest shall cease.
that the
The Governor-General in Council hereby further
the 1s engages
said Loan shall not be paid off before t of
May, 1879.
Signed by the authority of the Governor-General of
India in Council,
Accountant-General's Office,
Registered as No. of Secy. to the Government"
The sevei al Officers authorised to receive subscriptions will,
on application from the holders of Acknowledgments, trans-
mit them (free of every expense whatever) to the Accountant-
General at Fort William, to be exchanged for Promissory
Notes bearing interest from the 31st May or the 30th of No-
vember next ensuing after the date of subscription. The
interest accruing on the broken period of the half-year that
may intervene between the date of subscription and the 31st
of May or the 30th of November next ensuing, as the case
may be, will be paid up at the time of granting the Acknow-
ledgment.
Proprietors of Notes or Acknowledgments who may desire
to have the Interest payable at any other Public Treasury
than at the General Treasury of Calcutta shall be entitled to
receive ft accordingly, provided they notify their wish to the
Accountant-General at Fort William, and transmit the Notes
or Acknowledgments to him, to have an order for the pay-
ment of interest at the said Treasury written on the face of
the Notes under the signature of the said Officer, or that of
his Assistant ; and after such order shall, on the application
of the Proprietor, be inscribed on any note, the Interest shall
be payable only from the said Treasury, unless the Proprietor
shall present the Note, with au application for the purpose of
transferring the payment elsewhere, to the Accountant-Ge-
neral at Fort William,
If desired, Interest will also be made payable at the Gene-
ral Treasury at Fort William, for the period for which the
Loan is guaranteed, by Coupons payable to bearer. Promis-
sory Notes with Coupons attached will be granted on appli-
cation, instead of Promissory Notes in the usual form.
Or, if it be desired, Interest will be made payable at the
East India House in London, by bills payable to order on
demand, on the General Treasuries of Calcutta or Madras,
subject to the Rules and Regulations at present in force, or
that may hereafter be issued by the Right Honourable the
Secretary of State for India, or by this Government.
The Promissory Notes of this Loan shall not be renewed,
sub-divided, or consolidated, except by the Accountant-
General of Fort William. The practice and rules heretofore
in use in regard to the renewal, subdivision, and consolidation
of Promissory Notes will be adhered to in respect to the Pro-
missory Notes of this Loan.
This Loan is limited to Five Crores of Rupees. No part of
this Loan will be paid off before the Ist May, 1879, nor without
a previous notice of three months, to be issued at any time
after the 31st January, 1879.
The Five per Cent. Loan opened under Notification, dated
16th January, 1857, will be closed from the 30th instant, after
which date no further subscriptions to that Loan will be re-
ceived, except in cases of parties resident in Europe, who may
have forwarded by the mail which was to have left London on
the 10th of April, 1859, or by any previous mail that left London
after the 3d of March, 1859, written instructions for the imme-
diate transfer to the said Loan of Promissory Notes of the 4
per Cent., 34 per Cent., and per Cent: Loans or Transfer
Loan Securities. Subscriptions to the said Loan tendered under
such instructions, on account of such parties, will be received
at the General Treasuries of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay,
if the tender is made before the Ist of June next.
With the above exception, Promissory Notes of the 4 per
Cent., 3i per Cent., and 41 per Cent. Loans and Transfer Loan
Securities, will not be receivable in subscription to any Loan
after the 30th instant.

Published by order of his Excellency the Right Honourable
the Governor-General of India in Council.
(Signed) C. HUGH LUSHINGTON,
Secretary to the Government of India.
NOTIFICATION.
No. 29, of 1859.
It is hereby notified that from and after the Ist of May, 1859,
Interest on Government Pro-
-5 per Cent. Public Works Loan missory Notes of the Loans
of 1854-55. noted in the margin will, at
5 per Cent. Loan of 1856-57. the option of the holders, be
5} per Cent. Loan of 1859-60. made payable for the period
for which the said Loans have
respectively been guaranteed, either in the manner heretofore
observed, or by coupons payable to bearer, signed by the Ac-
countant-General to the Government of India.
Promissory Notes in the form heretofore in use can be ex-
changed on renewal for Promissory Notes having Coupons
attached. The Coupons will be in the following form :