Fortune's Epitome of the Stocks & Public Funds: Containing Every Necessary Information for Understanding the Nature of Those Securities, and the Manner of Transacting Business Therein: to which is Added, a Complete Guide to the Foreign Funds, Volumen 1838

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Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1838 - 304 páginas
 

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Página 10 - Any person who shall forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, Or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any...
Página 11 - ... shall be guilty of felony ; and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Página 6 - PIOUS REFLECTIONS for EVERY DAY in the MONTH. Translated by Mrs. MANT. Sixteenth Edition. To which is added, a Sketch of the Life of the Author, and a Father's Advice to his Son.
Página 10 - Ireland, or of any other body corporate, company, or persons carrying on the business of bankers, commonly called a bank note, a bank bill of exchange, or a bank post bill, or any indorsement on or assignment of any bank note, bank bill of exchange, or bank post bill...
Página 44 - Bills at the end of twelve months from the day on which they bear date, when the holder has the option of receiving either a new bill or his £100 and interest. Of this due notice is always given. Parties neglecting to present their bills on the day appointed are deprived of interest...
Página 292 - GUIDE; containing a sketch of the history and progress of Printing to its present state of improvement; details of its several departments ; numerous schemes of Imposition ; modern Improvements in Stereotype, Presses, and Machinery. 5. The BUILDERS...
Página xix - London banks not allowing interest on deposits. We may observe, by the way, that the number of persons having a direct interest in the funds is much greater than it would appear to be from this account. The dividends upon the funded property belonging to the Bank of England and other banks, to the Equitable and other insurance companies, &c., are paid upon single warrants, as if they were due to so many private individuals; whereas they are really paid to these individuals only because they act as...
Página 303 - Shaw's Domestic Lawyer. EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER ; a Practical and Popular Exposition of the LAWS of ENGLAND: containing the requisite Legal Information relative to every possible Circumstance and Situation in which Persons can be placed in the ordinary occurrences of Trade and Social Life. Particularly those relative to Landlord, Tenants and Lodgers, Arrest and Distress. Marriage, Seduction, Adultery, Divorce, and Bigamy. Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward. Wills and Codicils,...
Página 215 - The configuration of the country is eminently adapted for intercourse. It is intersected with rivers, and abounds, especially on the side of the Pacific, with excellent harbours. The greater part of Mexico may be classed among the most fertile regions of the earth. The Table Land (the climate of which is most salubrious) produces all the fruits and grains of the northern parts of America and Europe, while the low country bordering on the coasts yields in profusion all the productions of the tropics....
Página 48 - ... which they are so transferred ; but as they are sometimes at a discount, in that case such discount is to be deducted from the amount of principal and interest. The interest on India Bonds has been frequently altered, following the changes in the value of money, At present it is £3 10s. per cent. LIFE ANNUITIES, Payable at the Reduction of the National Debt and Life Annuity Office, Old Jewry. In order to accelerate the liquidation of the national debt, and in aid of the funds set apart for that...

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