An ACCOUNT of the Actual Receipt and Expenditure of the Sums placed in the hands of the

Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in the Year ending 5th January, 1825.

16,500 0 0

By cash, paid for £3,627,225 ca-
pital stock....

Rate per
cent.

Average price of stock.

£

8. d. £

s. d.

}

3 p. cent

31 p. cent

Do. for £16,500 do.
Do. being four quarterly pay-
ments to the Bank of
England, in discharge
of exchequer bills of the
like amount, per 3 Geo.
IV. c. 66 (in full)..
Do. into the exchequer per said
act, being the difference
between the sums ad-
vanced by the bank on
the security of exche-
quer bills, and the sums
actually paid to the
proprietors of 5 per
cents, who dissented
from receiving 4 per
cents in lieu thereof...
Do., set apart for the payment
of life annuities at the
Bank of England, per
48 Geo. 3, c. 142

3,416,031 9 11 94 3 6

16,473 15 0 99 16 10

3,598,473 3 3 1,037,359 0 10 530,591 12 10 5,166,423 16 11

United kingdom.

An ACCOUNT of the Total Amount of the Unredeemed Funded Debt, and the Charge thereof, 1825; of the Debt and Charge thereof redeemed in the course of that Year; and of the

at the 5th January, 1824; of the Debt and Charge thereof created in the Year ended 5th January, Total Amount of the Unredeemed Debt and Charge, as it stood on the 5th January, 1825.

Cr.

Debt

reduced

in the

year

1824.

By capital purchased with the
sinking fund....

By do. transferred for the
purchase of life annuities

By do. long annuities, trans-
ferred for do.

By capital transferred to the
commissioners, the divi-
dends upon which had re-
mained unclaimed 10 years
or upwards

By do. long annuities, trans-
ferred to do.

By capital transferred to
them for the redemption
of land-tax, under sche-
dules A and B

By do. schedules C, D 1, and
D 2

By capital transferred from
the funded debt in Great
Britain to the funded debt
in Ireland

By do. long annuities trans-
ferred from do. to do.
By annual interest payable
to the public creditor, de-
creased by the conversion
of £74,825,110 2s. 3d.
unredeemed 4 per cent
annuities into 3 per cent
reduced annuities, per 5
Geo. IV. c. 11........

By non-assented 4 per cent
annuities vested in the
commissioners' reduction
national debt at 3 per
cent, per 5 Geo. IV. c. 45-
By 5 per cent annuities"
1797, converted into con-
solidated 3 per cent an-
nuities, per 37 Geo. III.
c. 10

By life annuities, payable at

the exchequer, decreased

By management, decreased

Fractions........

Total debt reduced in 1824...... 12,274,644 03

The sums for the payment of the above non-assents were advanced by the bank upon the security of exchequer bills, which bills are to be redeemed by quarterly instalments from the sinking fund.

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