Excerpt from Thompson's Bank Note and Commercial Reporters: December 1, 1863 First. To the payment in coin of the interest on the bonds and notes oi the United States. Second. To the purchase or payment of one per ct. Of the entire debt oi'the United States. To be made within each fiscal year after the let day of July, 1862, which is to be set apart as a sinking fund, and the interest of which shall, in like manner, be applied to the purchase or pay ment of the public debt, as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct. Third The residue thereof to be paid into the Treasury of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.