Internal War Loans Belligerent Countries
Internal War Loans Belligerent Countries
Internal War Loans Belligerent Countries
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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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