The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-11

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VANTAGE,S THEY OFFER.
THEIR ABSOLUTE sEcURITYNoariy all active credits are
now based Government securities and banks hold them
as the very best and strongest investment they make
IL 1t possible to contemplate the financial failure of
the Government no bank would be any safer If money
ia loaned individual notes bond and mortgage II
will be payable 10 the currency as the Government
pays with, and no better The Government never has
hailed TO meet Its engagements and the national debt Ia
first mortgage npon the whole property of the country
While other stocks fiucuate from ten to fifty,
greater per cent Government stocks always compare
lively firm Their value fixed and reliable beyond all
other securiies for while thousand speculative bubbles
rise and burst rule they are never below par and are
often above. st4
Irs LIBERAL IyTEREsr-The general rate of interests
six per cent payable annually This is seven and three
tenths payable senanauay. If you lend on mortgage
there must be searching of titles lawyers fees STAMP
duties and delays and you will finally have returned tC
you only the same kind Of money You wouid receive IRON
The and less of it, You invest In this loan
Won have no trouble Any bank or banker VIII OBTAIN Il
r Won without charge 10 each note or bond affixed
Ava or interest tickets due at tho expiration Of
zach successive hafyear. The holder oil note has silnp
v 10 cut of one of these coupons present to the nearest
L or Governuent Agency, and receive his Interest," the
note itself need not be presented at ALL Qr coupon thus
nsvabe will everywhere he equivalent, when due, to mo
- TT Won wish to borrow ninety cents on the dollar
MN tho notes you have the highest security in the
vi 10 do il with Hyou wish to sell 1t viii bring within
fraction Of and interest at any moment II will bs
80 handy 10 have In the house.
II IA CONVERTIBLE into six per cent gold bearing bond.
Al the expiration Of three holder Of the notes OF
te 7O Loan has tho option oil accepting payment In full
ar his notes in six per cent golneres bond
the principal payable In not less than FIVE than
twenty years from ts date the Government may elect
These bonds are held at such premium to mako this
privilege now worth three per per annum and
ADDS 90 much to tho interest Notes Of the class Is
sued three years ago now selling at rate that fully
proyes the correctness of this statement -
Irs EXEMPTION FROM STATE OR MUNICIPAL TAxATIoN-
But aside from all the advantages have enumerated
special Act OF Congress sremFs all bonds and Treasury
notes from local ardon On the average this exemption
worth about two per cent annum according to the
rate Of taxation In various parts of the country.
LISA NATIONAL SAVINGS BAyE.-While this loan pre-
sents great advantages large capitalists It offers special
Inducements to those who wish to make sae and proha
BILE Investment Of small savings every way the beat
Savings Bank; for every institution OF this kind must
somehow invest s deposits protaby in order to pay Inc
erest and expenses They will invest largely in this loan
as the best Investment But from the gross Interest which
they receive they must deduct largely for the expenses OF
the Bank Their usual ratio Of interest allowed to deposit
tors il 8 per cent upon over 5000 The person who
invests directly with Government Will receive almost %
ner cent more Thus the man who deposits sl0oo In a
pryae sayngs Bank receives 90 dollars year interests
Il he denosits the same sum Ia this National Savings Bank
receives rs dollars For those who wish to md safe,
and profitable means Of their surplus
rniuas which they have reserved their Old age or for
he bsnst of their children, there nothing Which pre-
euts 90 many advantages % this National Loan
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