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Holland<br />

4>-2% Voluntary Loan<br />

(Second Mobilization Loan)<br />

Dated—May i, 1916.<br />

Due—May 1, 1941.<br />

Period of Subscription—March 27, 1916 to March 29, 1916.<br />

Right of Redemption—Each year beginning November 1,<br />

1917, bonds of a par value of at least one-fourth of one per<br />

cent of the entire amount of this issue, are to be redeemed<br />

at par by means of drawings by lot, increased yearly by<br />

the amount of interest on bonds redeemed. Each year beginning<br />

not later than 1930 the redemption fund shall be<br />

increased by at least 15,000,000 florins, plus the amount of<br />

interest on bonds so redeemed, thus insuring the entire repayment<br />

of the loan within twenty-five years. Drawings<br />

are to take place at least six weeks before redemption and<br />

interest on drawn bonds ceases on the date fixed for their<br />

redemption. Bonds must be presented for payment within<br />

ten years of the day upon which they become redeemable.<br />

Interest Dates—May 1 and November 1.<br />

Issue Price—100.<br />

Form and Denomination—Coupon bonds in denominations of<br />

100, 500 and 1,000 florins.<br />

Method of Subscription—Subscriptions were received at the<br />

offices of the Agent of the Minister of Finance in Amsterdam,<br />

at all Government Paymasters' offices, except those in<br />

Amsterdam and offices of Collectors of direct taxes in places<br />

where there were no Paymasters' offices.<br />

In case voluntary subscriptions to this loan did not<br />

amount to 100,000,000 florins the law provided for compulsory<br />

subscriptions to a 3JH>% l° an to make up the deficiency.<br />

Those who subscribed to the voluntary loan were to be<br />

released from the payment of an amount equal to that of<br />

their subscription to the voluntary loan in case of compulsory<br />

participation in a forced loan. The forced 3/4%<br />

loan was to be the same in all respects as the 4j4% voluntary<br />

loan except in interest rate and loan value. The Netherlands<br />

Bank agreed to loan up to 95% of the nominal<br />

value of bonds of the voluntary loan while it was stated as<br />

probable that the bonds of the forced loan would be accepted<br />

as collateral under less favorable terms.<br />

Limited Companies (incorporated societies), etc, with the<br />

exception of the Netherlands Bank, which have been re-<br />

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