Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-01
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rHiAAPEIPHA. March 23 1868.
FEAR SIR Your lett o. the 3al INST * received
and will cleeilui.y yon the ntorrlstnn desired
by answering your Questions in due order.
1st These Bonds are calico .'Fivr Tweniies'' be.
cause wltie they htenfy year Bends they may be
redeemed by the cover en in Gold at any time after
fire yfars Mary people stippos that the interest
~ 20 leo per q ut--tis is mistake, they pay Six
pc. cent Interest.
2d / gal Tender notes or ch ,cks upon rhi'ad Ilhia
or New York th Il Will ing Legal Tenders what
the SECRETARY aiioWs me rCceiv,-nO doubt your
nearest Htik Will give you CHECK Legal Tenders for
your country funds
81 The EoHs sold at PAR the inter, st t. com
mence tie day yen l'ay the money.
4th- have llIdr arranErIn with your nearest
Bank or Banker who will morally h.vo the Bonds
hand il hot, y"u can send III. m"u"Y to Inc by TX
press, and viii send back til Bonds Tree Of cst.
5ih The ionds pay SIX per cha. interest in Gn1D,
May and Nov, Hbcr the Mint IN Phi adeiIhia or at
any sub Treasury lit New York R.where. If you
have Coupon Bombs, all you have t" do is the
proper coupon tti esch months and c0 Ct ii your
sell or gye i 10 your Bank inr c"liecton You have
Registered Bonds, y"u give your Bank power
attorney to cuiirct the interest tor y',u.
9th. Tn" duti Gu imports 4 all articles from a
tary hasc gets nus god II IS lov being paid into the
Treasury Al the rate uf Two Hundred Thuus md Dollars
each day which f twice as much as he nee''s TO pay
7lh. congress has proTided tHaI .he ,nds shall be
when 1He.
Sth. You can have either Coup L Binds payable To
the bearer or Registered Bans payable trdor.
9th. 1he nI nur in sos. I0h +. 5CU's 900 s
INC att hi me HnHblS, AIS o. COS aid 10 GOO
10th No YOU will not have to pay any tax 5 On
these BaiIdS Il your EC0me them dos not exceed
S500aLd all abovcS 500 you v i'll only have pay
onchaf as much Income lax as II your money
vested m Mortgages or other secnriti'f. consider
the Government fitts first OF dt-all other Bonds
are taxed quarter per cent tn pay interest the
GoyeInmcht fOnds and the supreme Court Of the Uni
trd S'Atty hHsalst decided that state City,
County cali t-a Cow TnHI+nt Bonds.
1lth The present bonded debt of tile United States
IS less than THREE HCNnHED HONS, including the
en- and three teniis Treasury Notes; but the Govern
ment owes enough the shape Of Legal Tenders,
deposits in the sub isres Certfcat OF Indebted
ness &c. to increase the debt to about er Or nine
hundred miiltns. secretary hase has calculated that
the debt may reach Thousand seven hundred mil
lions, If the Rebellion lasts eighteen months lnngor--
IT'S, hoNcrrr, Believed that it will H. last six
months ol gcr-but even il n does, National Debt
will be small compared with that Of Great Britain or
France, whilst our resources vastly greater
18Th ! have no doubt that the revenue will not only
be ample to pay the ordinary expenses o! the Govern
men and all t,rCst the debt, but leave at loast
one hun led millions nnaIly toward paying oG the
debt, and that tn. 5grcrJment wl-be EEltO got out
of debt aGah asit hrs tpfCc belore-n years af-
ter the cuau II the larJ ~
lhopU that al thnse wh0 have money will at pur
chase tn Twenty Year Fonds. The right TO de-
mand them for legal tenders viii end the dgsOf Ju-
Iy, 1855, per the following authorized notice