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J^ub&rTiedt as /Ac s/cC dirccis byT.Bocsey./J.. Bread. Street , Jan' r /, J &7J fortune’s OF THE Stocks & Public Funds; CONTAINING EVERY NECESSARY INFORMATION For perfectly understanding the Nature of those Securities* AND THE MODE OF DOING BUSINESS THEREIN: ALSO A Copious (Equation %ab\e, Exhibiting, at ONE VIEW, not only the exact Value the different Stocks and Funds bear, or ought to bear, in respect to each other, but also with the Value of Land; and likewise the several Prices at which the same Interest is made in either upon the Money laid out. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT Of the Bank Stock and Funds of the United States of America , AND ALSO OF THE FRENCH FUNDS. jainrt) CEnition, toirt) Jlaaittong, REVISED AND CORRECTED TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY A MEMBER OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. llontion: PRINTED FOR T. BOOSEY, OLD BROAD STREET; and sold by SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS’COURT. 1817 . 352, (c Fll9fS 7 ^ (bvry^sc^ •1*' ' liti'ifr'fiBt 1 AS something may he expected prefatory to the ensuing Epitome^ suffice it to say, that I have endeavoured to make it as useful as possible. To he concise, exact, and clear, is all I have aimed at: the first I have sought to obtain by adhering strictly to the subject, with as little deviation as possible; the second, by the greatest attention to the calculations in the Table, which have not only been revised several times, and at different intervals, by myself, but also checked by a friend, ivho is a very able accomptant; and the third, by the brevity of the description and explanation . How far I have succeeded, is left to the public determination . 137973 PREFACE. From the accurate and minute exactness with which every augmentation, reduction, or any other alteration, which has taken or may hereafter take place in the various Stocks and Funds, has been inserted in the former, and will be (with the same care and atten¬ tion) in the future Editions of this little Work; these considerations, it is hoped and expected, will induce the Public, at least the curious part of it, to furnish themselves with a copy of each of the Editions which have been, or may hereafter , be published, thereby pos¬ sessing at a trifling expense an authentic and exact account of every circumstance above stated ; which may hereafter be of great utility in ascertaining facts and events relative to the Stocks, Funds, and other Government Secu¬ rities, probably no where else to be found. THE NINTH EDITION* THE late Mr. Fortune's Work having run through Eight Editions , and being fully established in the estimation of the PvMic, it is quite unnecessary to say any thing in sup¬ port of its merits. The Publisher has , in this Edition, added a short Account of the French Funds; and he trusts that the great pains he has taken to make the Work as correct and as useful as possible , will insure to it a continuation of that favour with which the former Editions have been received , r AN OF THE STOCKS Sr PUBLIC FUNDS. The Funds, of which the following sheets will give as short though as exact an account as possible, owe their foundation to the various Loans borrowed by the Government of this country from the public, through the medium of incorporated companies, or private bodies of individuals, between the close of the seventeenth century and the present time. They are com¬ monly, although improperly, called Stocks ; as that term cannot be applied with any degree of propriety, except to those sums which form the capitals of the different incorporated so¬ cieties,—such as the Bank, India, and South Sea Companies; together with those of the different Insurance Offices, whose Stocks or 10 Capitals are transferable from one person to another. The remainder are public debts due from this country, borrowed at different periods, by the sanction and authority of Parliament, and funded under the various names, as may be seen in the following Table. 11 CAPITAL STOCKS and PUBLIC FUNDS, Transferable at the different Offices, classed according to the Time of the Dividend or Interest becoming due upon each ; together with their several Days of Transfer. 6 per Ct. Navy Anns.. 3 per Cent. Consols... 3 per Cent. 1726. Bank Stock ...... 3 per Cent. 1797. 4 per Cent. Consols.. 3 per Cent Reduced.. Long Annuities. 3 per. Ct. Imp. Anns.. Imp. Anns, for 25 Yrs. 5 per Ct. Irish Anns.. South Sea House . South SeaStock. 3 p. Ct.New S. S. Anns. 3 per Cent. 1751.. 3 p. Ct. Old S. S. Anns. At the India House . India Stock. Trans . Hays. Divid. due . Tu.W.Th.F. j 1 January5, Tu.W.Th.F. and Tu. andTh.., * July 5. Tues. Th. F." I April 5, and Tues. Th. F. 4 Tu.W.Th.F. J Tu.W.Th.F. \ Mon. Wed.S.- . Octo. 10. k « Mo.Wed.Fr. j [ M ay 1, Tues. Th. S. J 1 Novem..l Tues. Th. S. j i March25, [ Sept. 29. Mo.Wed.Fr. i * January5, Tues. Th. S. y and Tu. and Th.' | July 5, Mo.Wed.Fr. j \ April 5, [ Octo. 10. Tues. Th. S. Jan. 5,Jul.£ 12 There are other public securities, transferable from one person to another, which do not come under any of the before mentioned heads ;— such as Exchequer Bills , and India Bonds . These are very proper investments for cash that is liable to be suddenly called for, being always marketable ; which, with the interest due upon them up to the very day on which they are sold, are transferable to the purchaser simply by a note or bill from the broker or holder who sells them. 13 GENERAL information anti IDirectiona, Which , if 'punctually attended to, will save much Time, prevent Mistakes, and expedite all Business relative to the Public Funds , Stocks , fyc. BANK OF ENGLAND. PUBLIC or common transfers are made of all the funds transferable here between the hours of eleven and one, on the respective days annexed to them in the foregoing Table; and all dividends on the same are payable, when due, from nine in the morning to eleven, and from one to three in the afternoon, every day in the year, Sundays and holidays excepted.—Holders of stock should particularly remember, that when the books of any stock or fund are shut, the interest or dividend up to that day on which the books were so shut, is due, and can be paid only to that stockholder in whose name the stock stands at that time, or his or her attorney duly B 14 authorised, and is not transferable to any other person whatever. Had this been duly attended to formerly, there would not have been occasion for so voluminous an account of unclaimed divi¬ dends which has since claimed the attention of the public. 15 THE SOUTH SEA HOUSE. COMMON transfers are made of all the funds transferable here, on their respective transfer days, between the hours of twelve and one only; and no business of any kind can be transacted after one o’clock on Saturdays. The dividends here are payable from nine till twelve o’clock, and from one till three, except on Satur¬ days ; then only from nine till twelve. 16 THE INDIA HOUSE. AS the joint or capital stock of this Company is the only one which is transferable here at present, the said transfers are made between the hours of eleven and one, and the dividends are paid from nine till two, except on Satur¬ days, when no business is done after twelve at noon; and here it will be necessary to observe, that the common or public transfers of this Stock , as well as those of the Bank and South Sea Stocky although made on the regular days in the Table, and within the appointed hours, yet are always attended with the following ex¬ penses : £ s d A transfer of Bank Stock, if under £25 0 9 0 If above that sum. ...0 12 0 A ditto of India Stock, for any sum.. 14 0 A transfer of South Sea Stock, if under £100. 0 9 6 If above that sum. . 0 12 0 As it may be necessary, upon many oc- 17 casions, to either make or obtain a transfer of some stock or fund on days or hours contrary to those mentioned in the preceding Table, per¬ sons wanting them can always be accommo¬ dated at any time during the office hours where such stock or fund is transferable; except dur¬ ing the first three or four weeks of the books of that stock being shut: if at the Bank, or India House, upon payment of two shillings and six¬ pence to the witnessing clerk; and if at the South Sea House, three shillings and sixpence for any such transfer, be the sum so transferred little or much. The same stock cannot be twice transferred on the same day, either by public or private transfer;—and I would advise the purchaser, if present at the transfer, to accept the stock then transferred directly; as it saves time, and in some measure prevents mistakes thereafter; and also to sign, either as transferer or accepter, al¬ ways in the same manner ; and to retain the first description of his or her place of abode, &c., even if one or more removals has taken place: this measure will expedite the business, prevent B 2 18 mistakes (always to be avoided, if possible) and also much trouble to the stockholder*. It may be requisite, at this place, to take some notice of a book which has run through * A lady resident in the country had requested a friend to purchase 3 per Cent. Consols for her at different times 5 during which period, she had changed her residence more than once; which her aforesaid friend knowing, he ima¬ gined that he was acting properly in changing the descrip¬ tion of her abode every time that he thought it necessary. The consequence was, that, when she came to town to re¬ ceive her dividends, they would only pay her according to one of her descriptions, she having three different ones in the books of that fund, answering to the different places of her abode at the time the purchases were made. As nei¬ ther herself nor her friend knew in what manner to pro¬ ceed (the clerks in the office being restricted from giving any information relative to the business), after much trouble, and some expense, an affidavit was obliged to be made before the Lord Mayor, by a gentleman who knew her, that she was one and the same person, although de¬ scribed in the books as resident at three separate and dis¬ tinct places 5 all which trouble and anxiety might have been avoided, had the above advice been followed, of re¬ taining the first description of a person’s place of abode throughout. 19 many editions, entitled Every Man his Own Broker: the reason why I do so is, that I mean to recommend a measure exactly opposite to that author's; and, instead of advising Every Man to be his Own Broker, endeavour to per¬ suade every man from being so, who does not intend to become a regular jobber in the funds, and attend constantly for that purpose, so as to be personally known to the clerks at the transfer books. I will readily admit that the book in question gives ample directions how to make purchases, or to buy , into the respective funds; but, un¬ fortunately, it is not quite so explicit as it ought to be with respect to selling, a matter sometimes of more moment than the former; when the loss of an hour, or probably some minutes, may be of great consequence in obtaining a sum of money. In the directions for selling, he (the author) not only passes over the most essential matter unnoticed, viz., the identity of the transferer or seller being made out , but even insinuates that government intended that every individual should 20 transact his own business. If ever Government did intend so, it is extremely fortunate for the Bank, and the other public company concerned in the management of their funds, that such in¬ tentions never took place. What a fine field for forgery would such an indiscriminate mode of doing business have opened to the adventurous felon! Even all the restrictions now so vrisely laid on cannot absolutely deter them, as the annals of Newgate can bear testimony ; few years passing without one or more executions for that offence. By the present rules, every one, male or fe¬ male, making a transfer, should be known to be the person whom he or she represents by the witnessing clerk; and as this must be, in nine out of ten instances, impossible, from the multitude of people who come before him, how is this re¬ quired identity to be made out 1 If the person who makes the transfer is not known to the clerk, it may be said, he must bring somebody to prove his identity; but if that person so brought is also a stranger to the witnessing clerk, the transfer cannot (or at least ought not to) be made ; yet all this trouble is incurred by 21 the advice of the aforesaid author, to save a trifling brokerage. Now my advice, in opposition to his, is, never to do any business in the funds without a Broker; who (if you always employ one and the same person) can vouch for your identity upon all occasions, and procure your business to be done without any more loss of time than what is absolutely necessary: he will also take care that you have the fair price for your stock, if a seller, and procure it for you at the same, if a buyer; neither of which, I am certain, could be done by yourself, without incurring a greater loss either way than what his commission or brokerage amounts to. I shall now take leave of this author, and pro¬ ceed to state, that the commission or brokerage, which gave him such offence, is, upon all the Government funds not terminable at any stated time, one eighth, or two shillings and sixpence, per cent. On the terminable annuities, or those which have only a specific time to run, two shil¬ lings and sixpence per cent, on the sum laid out. And upon India Bonds, and some Exchequer Bills, one shilling each. I have said thus much in favour of stock¬ brokers from a thorough conviction of their uti¬ lity in all business relative to the funds; and shall now proceed to give the remaining directions to be observed, without farther digression. Letters of Attorney, either to sell stock or re¬ ceive dividends, must be taken out at the office appointed for issuing them; and such letters (the expense of which is £\.A$.&d), when exe¬ cuted, must be deposited in the office of that fund, or stock, to which the said letter of attor¬ ney has a reference, one day before any sale, or other business for which they were granted, can take place. Probates of Wills must also be deposited until registered, which formerly used to cost two shil¬ lings and sixpence, but is now done gratuitous¬ ly, in one general office set apart for that pur¬ pose ; and not at the different offices, as hereto¬ fore was the case. If, after granting a letter of attorney for any purpose, the granter acts per* serially, such action revokes the power of the said letter, and it cannot be acted upon by the person appointed therein. A provision may be made in the funds for the benefit of any person, or persons, whether relations or others, inde¬ pendent of any deed or will, provided the per¬ son’s name or names so to be benefited are joined with the stockholders’ in a particular or separate account of stock ; which, upon proof being given of the death of either of the parties, becomes the property of the remaining survivor or survivors. In trust accounts, after the acceptance of all the trustees named therein is obtained, any one of them may receive the dividends. But as the laws with respect to trust accounts were still de¬ fective, an act passed in 1796, by which it is de¬ clared, that when stock stands in the name of trustees who have become bankrupts, or luna¬ tics ; or are absent, or out of the jurisdiction of the courts of equity; or who may refuse to transfer the stock so vested in them ; in any, or all of these cases, the court can order the said stock to be transferred either into the name of the Accomptant-general of the Coui;t of Chancery, 24 or into that of the Deputy-remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer, in trust; or to the parties who are entitled to the same. Or if one trustee is a bankrupt, or lunatic, or it is uncertain if he be living, and the remainder are willing to act, an order may be obtained, empowering them either to transfer the stock in question, or to re¬ ceive and pay over the dividends. And in case a bankrupt refuses to transfer stock which be¬ longs to him, the Chancellor may (upon a peti¬ tion from his assignees) order the stock to be transferred into their names. And he may likewise, in certain cases, order stock standing in the names of lunatics, or their committees, to be transferred. As the Bank is a chartered body, no property vested in the funds there can be attached, ex¬ cept in some particular cases; when, upon ap¬ plication to the Court of Chancery, it will issue a Distringas for that purpose. It will be necessary for every person, when purchasing stock, to keep the seller's receipt for such stock, until one dividend is received upon it at least, and after that period it is 25 the advice of many to destroy it, for fear of its creating trouble to the heirs, &c. of such per¬ sons, in searching the books of the different funds for the sum described in such receipt: but as I have known more than one mistake of long standing cleared up by the production of old receipts, I therefore advise their being kept; and, in order to prevent any disappointment or trouble to the heirs, &c. of such persons who may follow this advice, I would farther counsel them to keep a regular ledger account of all the stock bought and sold, opening a separate one for every stock, or fund, in which they may have property : this, if regularly posted up, the stock bought on one side, with its value, and that sold on the other, in like manner, will not only afford amusement for a leisure hour, but present at one view the state and amount of all property so vested, together with any loss or gain that may have accrued in those trans¬ actions. Since the publication of the seventh Edition of this Tract, the following alterations and regula¬ tions have been made in the conducting of the public business at the Bank;—The days of C transfer of some of the funds have been altered ; the registering of wills, and issuing letters of at¬ torney, instead of being done at the different offices which were relative to either, are now collected in one point, and transacted at two new offices, appointed solely for those purposes; the receipts also which pass from the seller to the purchaser of stock have now printed on their margins the several days of transferring that particular fund to which the said receipt apper¬ tains, together with the times of the dividends becoming due thereon, and also a request that the proprietor (or buyer) of stock would accept the same in the transfer books. I shall now proceed to give as concise an ac¬ count as possible of the different Stocks and Funds separately. 27 FIVE PER CENTS., OR NAVY ANNUITIES. THIS fund was established in the yea t 1784; its capital on August 1st, 1817, was ^134,882,348..18$. It is transferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, between the hours of eleven and one, except when the books are shut for the dividends or interest, which becomes due January 5th and July 5th. Letters of Attorney for transacting business in this fund, cost «£l..ls Brokerage, 2 s 6d per cent, on the sum bought or sold. * By the additional duty upon stamps which took place on the 11th of October 1804, five shillings were added to the former duty upon letters of attorney, the price before being 16i 6d. 28 THREE PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES. IN the former editions of this work I asserted that this fund began in 1727; but, upon better information since obtained, I now say that it originated in 1731, although the balance of the annuities granted by the 8th of George the First, instead of the St. Christopher’s and Nevis Debentures, on which it was partly founded, and which was the last article carried to this account, were not subscribed into it until the year 1751; and it owes its name to the Consolidating Act, passed in that year. Its capital on August 1st, 1817, was £377,415,537..17s..5|tf. This fund is transferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, between eleven and one, except when the books are shut. The dividends or interest is due January 5th, and July 5th. Letters of Attorney for transacting business in this fund cost £l..ls..6tf. Brokerage, 2s Qd per cent, on the sum bought or sold. 29 On account of the large amount of the capi¬ tal of this fund, and the great number cf stock¬ holders in consequence, an office is established for the express purpose of paying the dividends upon it: therefore they may be received every day in the week, from the hour of nine till three, contrary to all the other funds, the divi¬ dends upon which are only payable at those times when transfers are not made. C 2 so THREE PER CENT. 1726. THE date shews the year of its origin. Its capital is .£999,538..9s. It is transferable at the Bank of England on Tuesdays and Thurs¬ days only, between eleven and one, except when the books are shut for the dividends or in¬ terest, which becomes due January 5th, and July 5th. Letters of Attorney cost £l..ls..6rf. Brokerage, 2s 6d per cent, on all sums bought or sold. Si BANK STOCK, THIS Stock originated in 1694. The Char¬ ter of Incorporation bears date July 27th in that year*. Its capital on August 1st, 1817, was £14,686,800. Is transferable at the Bank (being the Capital Stock of that Corpora¬ tion) every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, ex¬ cept, as before, when the books are shut. The dividends or interest, which at present is 10 per cent., becomes due April 5th, and October 10th„ Letters of Attorney cost <£l..ls..6rf. Brokerage, 2 s 6d per cent, on all sums bought or sold. A transfer of this stock at all times, if under £25, costs 9s ; if above that sum, 125; and if private, 2 s 6d extra. * See the author’s authentic “ History of the Bank of England,” first published by Boosey, 1797; again in 1798 ; and a new edition, being the third, in 1802, in¬ scribed (by their permission) to the Governors and Directors of that opulent Corporation; and which, being printed of the same size, is a very proper companion to bind with this Epitomi. \ * 32 By an act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, it was enacted that every person possessed of ,£500 of this stock is entitled thereby to vote at all elections for Go¬ vernor, Deputy Governor, or Directors, pro¬ vided they have been in possession of such stock, in their own right, six calendar months; “ unless the said stock shall have been acquired, u or shall have come by bequest, or by mar- <( riage; or by succession to an intestate estate; €f or by the custom of the city of London ; or by “ any deed of settlement after the death of any “ person who shall have beeu entitled for life “ to dividends of such stock.” Two thousand pounds stock is the qualification for becoming Director; three thousand pounds for Deputy Governor; and four thousand for Governor. FIVE PER CENT. 1797 and 1802. THIS fund originated in 1796, by a volun¬ tary subscription; but was raised for the ser¬ vice of the year 1797, and is since distinguished by the name of Loyalty : its capital on August 1st, 1817, was £ l,058,503..5$..6rf. It is trans¬ ferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, between the hours of eleven and one, except on holidays, or when the books are shut for the dividends, which become due April 5th, and October 10th*. Letters of Attorney for transacting business in this fund cost £l..ls..6d. Brokerage. 2s Gd per cent, on the sum bought or sold. * The time having arrived for the paying off this fund at par, the holders of it were called upon by advertisement to make their election on or before Oct. 5th, 1804; either to receive £100 five per Cents, valued at £88..10s..6d, and £20 three per Cents. Reduced at £56..0 s..6d, or wait till April 1805, then to be paid off at par. But that this ar¬ rangement did not take place, the above capital of this fund remaining unpaid is a satisfactory proof. 34 FOUR PER CENT. CONSOLIDATED ANNUITIES. ALTHOUGH this fund really originated in 1760, yet being granted only for twenty-one years, and a subsequent loan of twelve millions, in 1762, for nineteen years, both were termina¬ ble, and did terminate, in 1781. We must therefore say that the present capital of the Four per Cents, originated in 1777, by a loan of ^5,000,000 ; which capital, by sundry augmen¬ tations, amounted on August 1st, 1817, to £74,919,405..5$..ld. It is transferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, except when the books are shut. The dividend or interest is due April 5th, and October 10th. Letters of Attorney cost ,£l..l$..6tf. Brokerage, 2s 6d per cent, on all sums bought or sold. 35 THREE PER CENT. REDUCED ANNUITIES. IF we date the origin of this fund from the time at which the sums forming the first part of its capital were reduced (as the name implies) to three per cent., it will be found to commence in the year 1757, having before that period borne interest at 4 per cent.; viz. from 1746 to 1750, and 3i per cent, from that time until 1757, when it was reduced to 3 per cent. Its capital on August 1st, 1817, amounted to ,£143,306,206..16$..567. It is transferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Frida) 7 , except when the books are shut for the dividends or interest, which is due April 5, and October 10th. Letters of Attorney cost £l..l$..6rf. Brokerage, 2s 6d per cent, on all sums bought or sold. 36 LONG ANNUITIES. THESE Annuities have been granted as douceurs at different times, and for various terms, but all terminating at one period, viz. January 1860, when they will all expire together. They amounted on August 1st, 1817, to < £l,354,544..12s..0frf. per annum: are trans¬ ferable at the Bank of England every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, except when the books are shut for the dividends or interest, which becomes due April 5th, and October 10th. Letters of Attorney cost £l..l$..6rf. Brokerage, 2 s 6d per cent, upon the sum laid cut; these Annuities not being bought or sold at so much per cent., but in the same manner as land, at so many years purchase. 37 THREE PER CENT. IMPERIAL ANNUITIES. THIS fund originates in a convention be¬ tween his Imperial Majesty and the Government of this country, signed in May 1795. Its capi¬ tal on August 1st, 1817, was <£5,514,232..35..8c?. It is transferable at the Bank of England every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, except when the books are shut for the dividends oi 4 interest, which becomes due May 1st, and November 1st*. * By the Act of Parliament which established this and the next following fund, and which guaranteed the pay¬ ment of the interest upon both to the respective holders, it was enacted, that, provided the Emperor should fail in making the necessary remittances to this country for the payment of the interest, or dividends, upon both these funds ; then, and in that case, our government was autho¬ rised by the said Acc to defer the payment of the said divi¬ dends until the time of paying the interest or dividends upon the 5 per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, viz. January -and July. And the Emperor having so failed in making the remittances in due time for payment of the half year’s interest which became due in November 1797 ; it was ac- D 38 Letters of Attorney cost <£l..ls..6rf. Brokerage, 2s 6d per cent, upon all sums bought or sold. cordingly deferred until January 1798 : the succeeding one, which became due in May 1798, was not paid till July ; or that due in November 1798, until January 1799, and has continued so ever since. 39 IMPERIAL ANNUITIES FOR TWENTY- FIVE YEARS. THESE Annuities commenced the 1st of May, 1794. They amounted on August 1st, 1817, to <£‘229,96I..12s..4df. per annum, and will expire April 30th, 1819. They are transferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Thurs¬ day, and Saturday, between the hours of eleven and one, except when the books are shut lor the dividends or interest, which is due May 1st, and November 1st*. Letters of Attorney cost <£l..l s.&d. Brokerage, 2 s 6d per cent, upon the sum laid out. * See the note to the preceding article. 40 FIVE PER CENT. IRISH ANNUITIES. THESE originate in part of two loans, bor¬ rowed for the use of the Irish Government in the years 1794 and 1795. Such of the sub¬ scribers to these loans, who, at the time the payments were made, declared their intention of receiving the dividends arising therefrom in London, were permitted so to do ; and for their accommodation, under the sanction of an Act of Parliament, passed in the thirty-fifth year of his present Majesty's reign, the Bank of Eng¬ land undertook the management of such part, both in transferring, and in paying the divi¬ dends thereupon : to enable them so to do, they are empowered by the beforementioned Act to receive the money from the Irish Exchequer. The dividends upon this fund are neverthe¬ less not guaranteed by our Government, but rest solely upon the revenues of the Sister King¬ dom*. Its capital, if I may be allowed so to * Ireland made another loan the beginning of the year 1800 ; but as no part of it is transferable at the Bank, nor the interest payable there, no farther notice can be taken of it in this work. 41 express myself, or at least that part of it trans¬ ferable here, amounted, on August 1st, 1817, to <£1,900,000*. It is transferable at the Bank of England every Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur¬ day, except when the books are shut for the dividends or interest, which becomes due March 25th, and September 29th. Letters of Attorney cost £l..l s. 6d. Brokerage, 2 s 6d per cent, upon all sums bought or sold. * Now Consolidated with the Debt of Great Britain* D 2 42 LIFE ANNUITIES. IN order to accelerate the liquidation of the national debt, and in aid of the funds set apart for that purpose, the legislature passed an act in 1808, being the 48th of his present Ma¬ jesty, entitled an act “ For enabling the Com¬ missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, to grant Life Annuities •” by which it was enacted, that from and after the first day of August 1808, the holders of stock in the 3 per Cent. Consolidated and the 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities might exchange the same for Life Annuities, on one or more lives, according to the age of the respective parties, at the rates set forth in the Tables annexed to the said act* ; one of the clauses in which enacts, that all an¬ nuities ceasing by the death of the nominees do * The Taeles here mentioned, together with copious Extracts from the Act of Parliament, very necessary to be consulted, and known, by those persons who intend to ex¬ change their stock for these Annuities, are published by, and may be had of T. Boosey, Bookseller, Broad Street, Royal Exchange, the publisher of this work, and also of the History of the Bajnk. 43 revert to the sinking fund. It also allows transfers to be made of the said Annuities under certain restrictions set forth therein; which transfers, when required, are made at the Bank of England. The amount of these Annuities, August 1st, 18]7, was £225,254..13s. They are payable in January and July, and April and October, ac¬ cording to the description of Stock which the purchasers may transfer to the Commissioners, who are now authorised to grant Annuities in exchange for the following Stocks: 3 per Cent. Consols. 3 per Cent. Reduced, Navy 5 per Cents. 4 per Cents. Long Annuities, 44 SOUTH SEA STOCK. THE South Sea Stock is the capital of the South Sea Company, which was established in the year 1711. The capital stock, after many reductions before 1733, was then settled, and has continued without variation up to August 1st, 1817, .£3,662,784..8 s..6d. It is transferable at the South Sea House every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, between the hours of twelve and one, except on holidays, or when the books are shut for the dividends or interest, which is 3£ per cent, and is due January 5th, and July 5th. Letters of Attorney cost £l..l $..6d. Brokerage, 2 s 6d per cent, upon the sum bought or sold. Every transfer of this stock, if under £100, costs 9^ 6rf; if above, 125; and if a private transfer, 35 6d over and above the foregoing sums. Every person possessed of five hundred pounds 45 «>f this stock, and which has been in his actual possession six months, is entitled thereby to give one vote at all elections for Governors and Directors of this Company ; two thousand pounds stock entities them to two votes ; three thousand to three votes; and five thousand pounds to four votes. Two thousand pounds stock is also a qualifi¬ cation for becoming Director; four thousand for Deputy Governor; and five thousand for Sub Governor. 46 THREE PER CENT. NEW SOUTH SEA ANNUITIES. THIS fund was part of the capital stock of the South Sea Company, and may be said to have its origin in the year 1757, at which time it became a 3 per cent, fund, having, previously to that period, borne interest at 4 and 3J per cent. Its capital was on August 1st, 1817, .£3,895,330..2s..l0 s sa- *+> c 5 > *3 & ^ 5. 05 ^ SS* T3 ^ S* 5 1 g £> o § § ? « CO IsS tO|M o fb cn o o pr n > > ^ w £ ^ w S 4 > -t iz; £ O <* £E p ■** ?T <*> £ W > ^ 3 O 5. o o ,P 3 C/5 O O *T O* CO 0* 1 CO CO H (; W Q W fc>|w _ M O x « o 3 3- CO & CO 00 05 00 *>|M O CO 3 3 rt> & o o 5 >-* 05 ►— <0|M • S' s ^ CO 3 5- w * 05 w h» o u o 3 2 w < o 13 w V 2 5 tn ^ a « 2* <® CO © rtJ CO c* 3 O B I PR 93 AMERICAN STOCKS* Dollars . IN 1812, Congress granted Loans for 11,000,000 1813 •...»• .23,500,000 1314.**.25,000,000 1815.18,452,800 77,952,800 all ill Six per Cent. Stock, and irredeemable for twelve years from the time they were seve* rally granted. Exclusive of the above, there is a Seven per Cent. Stock, and another Six per Cent. Stock* both of small amount, and created in the years 1815 and 1816, for the purpose of liquidating a number of Treasury Notes: these two are redeemable after the close of the year 1824. The Old American Stocks are now nearly all paid off. There is a new-created Bank, with a Capital of 35,000,000 Dollars; the first dividend on which is equivalent to 8 per Cent, per annum. 93 SIX PER CENTS. THIS fund originated in the before-recited Act, which passed August 4th, 1790. Its capital was, when the last accounts were received, 29,040,730 dollars, 62 cents.; or £6,535,514..7«.. 9id. Business in this fund is transacted at the before-mentioned offices of Messrs. Capper and Haslewood, every day, during Exchange hours. The dividends or in¬ terest, which is payable quarterly, becomes due March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st*. This Stock will be paid off in the course of next year ; say 1818. Brokerage, i per cent, on the sums bought or sold. * According to the Plan of Redemption specified in the Act of Congress by which this fund was created, it will be totally extinguished Oct. 1, 1818, as 51^9_2_ per cent, will become liquidated on January 1, 1811. 94 NEW SIX PER CENTS. (Formerly called Deferred Stock.) THE Congress having thought proper to name this a Stock, I am also obliged to ad¬ here to it for the sake of perspicuity, although it really is a Fund, agreeable to the distinc¬ tion heretofore made, and preserved through¬ out, in the description of the English, Irish, and Imperial Funds. It received its former name of Deferred from the real interest of six per cent., which it now bears, having been deferred until January 1st, 1801. This fund also originates in the before-mentioned Act of August 4th, 1790. Its capital is 14,523,365 dollars, 45 cents., or £3,267,757..4s..6d * The interest or dividends upon this fund (as before recited) did not commence until * The Act of Congress which created this Fund pro¬ vided also for its redemption, at a certain rate per annum; by the operation of which, 26 per cent, will become liquidated January 1, 1811, and the whole of it redeemed October 1, 1824. 95 January 1st, 1801; since when they become due at the same times as the other Six per Cent., viz. March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, and December 31st, in every year, until redeemed, for which, as before stated. Congress has made provision. Business in this Fund is transacted at Messrs. Capper and Hasle- wood’s offices; and the Brokerage, as before, i per cent, on the sums bought or sold. This Stock will be paid off in the year 1824, 96 THREE PER CENTS. THIS fund originated likewise in the Act of the 4th of August, 1790. Its capital, ac¬ cording to the latest accounts, was 19,484,840 dollars, 68 cents.; or £4,384,089..3s..ltf. ster¬ ling. Business in this fund is transacted, like the others, at Messrs. Capper and Hasle- wood’s, No. 1 , Birchin Lane ; and the like brokerage, or commission, of \ per cent, on the sum bought or sold. There is very little of this stock in this country. 97 OBSERVATIONS. In giving the capitals of the foregoing American Stock and Funds, I have pursued the same way of statement as in the preceding English Funds; that is, I have given their full amount as they stood at first; but it must be remembered, that the acts of Congress, by which they were created, also contained clauses for redeeming them at the rate of eight dollars per cent, per annum ; by which the public debts of the United States have been reduced more than fifty per cent, upon the Old 6 per Cents., and more than twenty-six ditto on the New: therefore the capitals of those funds must be, by so much, the less in their amount. But as no exact accounts of the above-named reductions have been received here, I do not feel myself warranted to attempt the ascertain¬ ing them by calculation. They have also paid off two other of their debts, viz. their Navy 6 per Cents., raised by virtue of an Act of Congress, which passed I 98 on the 30th day of June, 1798, and which began paying off October 1, 1806. And also' the per Cent. Fund, created by an Act of Congress which passed March 3d, 1795, for the purpose of liquidating their foreign debt, and the payment of the interest thereon in America instead of Europe. Their intent to pay off the above two Funds was made known by the fol¬ lowing advertisement:— “ Treasury Department of the United States, “ June 21, 1806. “ WHEREAS the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a Meeting held on the 28th day of April, 1806, did resolve, that the sum remaining to complete the expenditure of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars should, among other purposes, be applied to the reimbursement of the navy six per cent, stock, created in pursuance of an Act of Con¬ gress, passed on the 30th day of June, 1798, and to the reimbursement of the five and half per cent, stock, created in pursuance of an Act of Congress, passed on the 3d day of March, 17 95 1 , 99 '* This is therefore to give notice, That the principal of the said navy six 1»er cent, stock, with the interest due thereon, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the 1st day of October next ensuing the date hereof, to the respective stockholders or their lawful representatives or attornies duly constituted and authorized, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, as the case may be, where credits have been given for the amount of stock re¬ spectively held by them: and that the principal of the FIVE AND HALF PER CENT. STOCK* with the interest due thereon, will in like manner, and at the same places, be paid on the 1st day of January, 1807, to the respec¬ tive Stockholders, or their lawful representa¬ tives or attornies duly constituted and au¬ thorized. “ It is further made known, for the informa¬ tion of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the is avy six per cent, stock, either from or to the books of the Treasury, or from or to the books of a Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the 1st day of September en¬ suing, nor of the five and half per cent. 100 stock, after the 1st day of December ensuing. And the.interest on all certificates of said Stocks, which shall not have been surrendered, in pursuance of this notification, will cease and determine on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof. “ Albert Gallatin, “ Secretary of the Treasury” 101 EXCHANGE, AN unknown friend having, by letter, sug¬ gested that some of my readers might not be acquainted with the easiest mode of com¬ puting the value of their purchases in the American Funds, as the certificates are for dollars, and the payments are made here in pounds sterling; or, in other words, the ex¬ change of dollars into pounds sterling, and vice versa ; agreeable to my said correspondent’s wishes, I here subjoin the method pointed out by himself. “ The proportion between pounds sterling and dollars, at the exchange of 4 s 6d per dollar, is as 40 to 9 ( sixpences ). Thus, to exchange dollars into pounds sterling, multiply the number of dollars by 9, and divide the pro¬ duce by 40 ; as per example t~ I 2 102 “ The Price of One Share in the Bank Stock <&f the United States is— 400 dollars, at 4s 6d per dollar. 9 40) 3600 (90 pounds sterling. 360 0000 “ To reduce Pounds Sterling into Dollars, reverse the above example, as below-— 90 pounds sterling. 40 9) 3600 400 dollars. 103 THE FRENCH FUNDS. FIVE PER CENTS. In this Fund is consolidated the whole Na¬ tional Debt of France, the amount of which is about ,£100,000,000 Sterling. The dividends are due the 22d of March and 22d of September, and are generally paid in the early part of April and October. The price of this Stock, which within a few years has been as low as 41, and as high as 1)3, is now about 66|. The French Government has established a Sinking Fund for the gradual Redemption of the Debt, by appropriating the produce of the Na¬ tional Woods and Domains for that purpose. The estimated Produce of this Fund is as fol¬ lows : For the year 1817, about£ 1,600,000 sterling; 1818, and future years, £2,100,000 ditto; 104 In addition to .which, an order has been issued for the Sale of Wood to the amount of about ^£4,000,000, to be applied to the said Fund. BANK ACTIONS. THIS Stock is similar to our Bank Stock, and is divided into Shares of 1000 Francs each. The Dividends are payable the 1st of January and 1st of July, and are declared a short time previous to those periods, according to the pro¬ fits of the Company. The last dividend declared was Francs 41^ per Share, and a reserve of Fr. per Share surplus to meet Contingencies. The present price of this Stock is about 1365 Francs per Share of 1000 Francs. <53= For any further information upon this or any other subject contained in this Work, the Publisher begs leave to refer to Mr. J. G. Dessoulavy, Stock Broker, Bank Coffee House. INDEX. Page. BANK, General Information, &c. relative to ............ 13 -- Stock ... 31 Bills, Exchequer . 52 Bonds, India. 54- Consols, or Consolidated Annuities:— 5 per Cent. Navy.. 27 5 per Cent. 1797, or Loyalty .. 33 4 per Cent. 34 3 per Cent...... 28 Days of Transfer . 11 Debt, Unredeemed, General Statement of to Aug. 1, 1817 . 56 Directions and General Information . 13 Exchange .101 Exchequer Bills . 52 Funds, General Table of them . 11 5 per Cent. Navy . 27 5 per Cent. 1797, or Loyalty. S3 5 per Cent. Irish. 40 3 per Cent. Consols . 28 3 per Cent. Reduced . 35 3 per Cent. 1726. 30 4 per Cent. Consols . 34 Long Annuities . 36 3 per Cent. Imperial Annuities . 37 106 pagfe Funds, Imperial Annuities for 25 Years . 39 Life Annuities . 42 New South Sea Annuities, 3 per Cent. 46 Old Ditto, 3 per Cent. 48 1751 Ditto, 3 per Cent..... 47 Sinking or Consolidated.... 57 Fractions, Information respecting . 65 General Information ana Directions , viz .— Time of Transfers at the Bank... 13 Ditto at the South Sea House . 15 Ditto at the India House .. 16 Brokers . 18 Brokerage . 2i Letters of Attorney. 22 Probates of Wills . 22 Trust Accounts . 23 Receipts .. 24 Holidays kept at the Bank, &c.. 66 India House, General Information, &c. relative to . 16 -— Stock . 49 — Bonds . 54 Imperial Annuities . 37 ■ - -- — for 25 years .. 39 Irish 5 per Cent. Annuities. 40 Long Annuities........ 36 Loyalty, or Five per Cent. 1797 and 1802.. 33 Navy annuities, 5 per Cents. 27 Observations. 97 Omnium ........... 61 Sinking or Consolidated Fund .. 57 Page South Sea House, General Information, Sec. relative to . 15 -Stock . 44 Stocks, List of them ...•»•..... 11 Bank Stock . 31 South Sea Stock .... 44 India Stock . 49 Scrip . 6£ Table of the Stocks and Funds. II Transfer Days . 11 Unredeemed Debt, General Statement of to Aug. 1, 1817 .. 56 append. AMERICA. Acts of Congress, New....... 75 American Funds:—Six per Cents. 93 — — - - - Three per Cents.... 96 American Stocks :—New Six per Cents.. 94 Congress, New Acts of... 75 Debt of the United States of America .. 68 Debts, Outstanding, Abstracts of the Acts of Congress for funding . r j% Deferred Stock, or New Six per Cents .. 94 Interest or Dividends, Times of paying .... 68 Stocks, American. 92 FRENCH FUNDS. Bank Actions.'.. ..!Q4 Five perCents . 1^ J. 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