Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-06-02
u. S. 7-3O Loan.

THIRD SERIES,
$23O,OO0,0 900.
BY the authority of the Secretary of the Urea
sury, the undersigned, the General Subscription
Agent for the sale of United States Securities,
offers to the public the third series of Treasury
Notes. being seven and three tenths per cent.
interest per annum, known as the
- 30 l. O a ~.
The notes are issued under date or July Is,
1865, and are payable three years from that date
in currency, or arc convertible at the option of
the holder into
U.S.. 500 SIX PER CENT.
GOLD-BEARlNG BONDSs
These Bonds are now worth handsome pre-
MUM, and are exempt, as are all the Govern
ment Bonds, from State, County, and Municipal
taratiOH, tohieh adds from one to three per cent.
per anntam to their ralte, according to the rate
levied upon other property. The interest is pay
able semi-annualy by coupons attached to each
note, which may be cut off and sold to any
bank or banker
The interest at 730 per cent. amounts
to
One cent per day on $50 note.
Two cents " d" 500
Ten " 4" $500 I"
20 " $1,000 Z"
81 $4,000
| Notes of all the denominations named will be
promptly furnished upon. receipt of subscrip-
tons.
The Notes of this Third Series are precisely
smiIariin form and privileges to the Seven-Thr-
ties already sold, except that the Government
reserves to itself the option of paying interest
in gold coin at 6 per cent, instead of 3-lOths
in currency up to July 18th, at the time when
they subscribe.
/ of the Seven-thrties will commence on the LIST
of June, and will be made promptly and con-
tinuously after that date.
! The slight change made in the conditions OF
i this THIRD SERIES affects only the matter OF
interest. The payment in gold, if made, will be
equivalent to the currency interest of the higher
rate
I The return to specie payments, in the event OF
which only will the option to pay interest in
Gold be awaited of, would so reduce and equal
re prices that purchases made with six per cent
in gold would be fully cqualto those made with
seven and threc-tenths per cent. in currency
This is
Only LOAN IN MARKET
Now offered by the Government. and its superb
or advantages make it the
i GREAT POPULAR LOAN OF THE PEOPLE.
Less than $780, 900 of the Loan authorized
by the last Congress are now on the MARKET
This amount, at the rate at which it is being alb
sorbed, will all be subscribed for within sixty
days, when the notes will undoubtedly COM
mand a premium, as has uniformly been the
case on closing the subscriptions to other Loans.
In order that citizens of every town and sec
ton of country may be afforded facilities for ia.
king the loan, the National Banks, State Banks,
and Private Bankers throughout the country
have generally agreed to receive subscriptions
att par. Subscribers will select their own agents,
in whom they have confidence, and who only
arc TO be responsible for the delivery of the
notes for which they receive orders.
JAW COOKE
SUBSCRIPTION AGEET, Philadelphia,
Subscriptions will be received by the
First National Bank Of Montpelier.
FIRST National Bank Of st. Adams.
First National Bank of ST. Johnsbury,
Bank Of Orleans, Irasburgh.
May Is, lSGj-22w7
THE NINTH NATIONAL BAMK
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.