The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19
In THE POSTOFFICE
]. G. CarliSle'S Bond Circular Before
the Public Gaze.
BIDDERS TAKE THEIR TIME
The Secretary's Letter Has Been
Read by Many. But Purchases
In Butte Have Been Few.
If More Than One.

The people of Butte can buy govern
ment bonds If they want to and II they
are able to. That is the conclusion, at
any rate, which is to be drawn from a
circular letter which is posted in the
postoffice. Postmaster Lynch posted
the letter in conformity to the following
order:
THE postmaster is hereby directed to
post this circular in a conspicuous
place" The order is signed by the
postmaster general. The circular reads
as follows:
Washington, d. c., Jan. 6, 1S96-No-
tice is hereby given that sealed propos-
ais will be received at the office Of the
secretary of the treasury at Washing
ton, ID. c.. until IL o'clock, noon, on
Wednesday, the 5th of February, 1896,
for the purchase of 500, 00O,0 900 of Unit
ed States per cent. coupon or register
ed bonds in denominations Of $50 and
multiples of that sum, as may be de-
sired by bidders.
THE right to reject any and all bids
Is reserved.
The bonds will be dated on the first
day of February, 1895, and be payable
in coin 80 years after that date, and
will bear interest at per cent. per am
mum, payable quarterly in coin, but all
coupons maturing on and before the
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tached and the purchaser will be re-
quired to pay in United States gold
coin or gold certificates for the bonds
awarded them, and all interest accrued
thereon after the first day of February,
1896, up to the time of payment for the
bonds.
Payments for the bonds must be
made at the treasury of the United
States at Washington, ID. c., or at the
United States subtreasuries at New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis and New
Orleans, and they may be made at San
Francisco with exchange on New York,
and all bids must state what denomina-
lions of bonds are desired, and wheth-
er coupon or registered, and at what
place they will be paid for.
Payments may be made by INSTALL
ments, as follows: Twenty per cent.
with accrued interest upon receipt of
notice of acceptance of bids, and 20 per
| cent. and accrued interest at the end
of each 10 days thereafter; but all ac-
cepted bidders may pay the whole
amount at the date Of the first INSTALL
ment, and those who have paid all in
stallments previously maturing may
| pay the whole amount of their bids al
any time, not later than the maturity
of the last installment.
| ''The bonds will be ready for delivery
on or before the 18th day of February,
1896.
Notice is further hereby given that
| II the issue and sale of an additional or
different form OF bond for the mainte-
nance of the gold reserve shall be au-
thorized by law before the 5th day OF
| February 1896. sealed proposals for the
purchase of such bonds will also be re-
| ceived at the same time and place and
up to the same date, and upon the same
terms and conditions herein set forth
and such bids will be considered, as
well as the bids for the 4 per cent
bonds herein mentioned.
| u. G. Carlisle
| Secretary of the Treasury"
| Further Information and blank forms
for subscriptions will be furnished or
application to the secretary OF the
treasury, Washington, ID. c.
A good many people have read the
above notice during the past few DAYS
but whether there are any bidders In
Butte, outside of the First National
| bank, is not known.
1t may be proper to remark at this
time that the postoffice is in the same
old place. in spite of the threat which
the United States of America made
that II would move II unless this city
moved the saloon which adjoins II or
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