Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-07-09
u. $, 1910 Bonds. /.

These Bonds issued under the Act Of Congress of
March eth, 1864, which provides that all Bonds issued
under this Act shall be EXEMPT FROM TAXATION
by or under any state municipal authority. Sub.
scrptions to these Bonds are received In United
States notes of National Banks They are TO BE RE.
DEEMED IN coin, at the pleasure fthe Government
any period less than more than forty years
from THAR date, and until their redemption FIVE PER
CENT INTEREST WILL BE PAID in COIN on
Bonds ofnot over one undred dollars annually and
all other Bonds semi annually The interest is pay
able the first days Of March and September in each
year.
Subscribers will receive either Registered or Coupon
Bonds as they may prefer. Registered Bonds re-.
corded on the books of the u S. Treasurer, and
transferred only on the owners order, Coupon Bonds
are payable to beo, er, and more convenient for
commercial uses.
Subscribers to this loan will have the option fhavne
their Bonds draw interest from arch Ist by paying
the accrued interest coin(or in United States notes
the notes of National Banks adding fifty per cent
for premum) or receive them drawing interest from
the date of subscription and deposit As these Bonds
are
Exempt from Municipal or State Taxation,
their value is increased fr three per cent per
annu according to the rate of tax levics in various
parts of the country.
At the present rate of premium gold they pay
One Eight Per Cent Interest
in currency, and of equal convenience perman
| ent or temporary investment
tbs believed that no securities offer great induce
to lenders the various descriptions Of U. S.
Bonds In all other forms of Indebtedness, the faith
ability of private parties stock companies or sepa.
rate communities only is pledged for paymect, while
for thedebts the United States the whole properly of
the country is holden to the payment Of both
prncipa and interest in coin.
( These Bonds may be subscribed for in sums from
$50 up to any magnitude, on the terms and are
thus made equally available the smallest lender and
the largest capitalist. They be converted into
money at any moment, and the holder will have the
benef1 ofthe interest.
1t may be useful to in this connection that the
total Funded Deb, ofthe United States on which inter-
est is payable gold the Sd day of March, 1854 was
S76s g65 600 The interest this debt for the coming
fiscal year will be Sl5,937 l26 while the customs reven
in gold for the cnrren scalyear, ending June Both
leG has been far the of 500 600 900 per
annum.
1t will be that the present gold revenues o
the Government largely in of the wants of the
TreasuTcy for the yayment of gold interest, while he
recent increase of the tariff will doubtless raise the
annual receipts from customs on the same amount o.
importations, to Sl5O,O00,00O per annum.
Instructions to the National Banks acting loar
agents were issued from the United State Treasuy
until March % but the first three weeks of April the
subscriptions averaged than TEN MILLIONS A
WEEK.
SUBSCRIPTIONS will 30 received by the
First National Bank of Danville
Pennsylvania, and by all the
NATIONAL BANKS
which are bepositaries of Public money, and all
RESPECTABLE BANKS AND
BANKERS
throughout the country, (acting agents Of the Nat
: NOT Depostary Banks) will furnish further informa.
ton on application and
AFFORD EVERY FACILITY TO
SUBSCRIBERS.