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Fifty Shares in The Welsh Patagonian Gold Fields Syndicate, Limited.
Transcription: Incorporated under the companies acts 1862 to 1890 This is to certify that David Lloyd George of [illegible],[illegible](member of parliament) is the registered proprietor of Fifty shares of one pound each numbered 7536 to 7585 both…
Share in the Paper Manufactory of Milford, Pennsylvania
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This indenture made this first day of April in the year of our lord on thousand seven hundred and ninety four between John Biddis of the County of Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania, Esquire, of the one part; and James Campbell…
A Share in the Million Bank
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London, the 6th day of May 1752 Received of Robert Hadsley Esq the sum of twelve hundred and fifty seven pounds and ten shillings in full for one thousand pounds. Credit or interest in the capital stock of the million-bank, this day by…
Assignment of One Share in the River Ouse Navigation
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I the right honourable John Lord Sheffield in the consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain paid to me by Sylvester Douglas of Lincoln Inn in the county of Middlesex Esquire do hereby…
An Interest Payment Certificate
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For [illegible] Specie. 29. 11.2 In council Philadelphia April 19th, 1785. Sir, pay to Captain John Harrison of the navy of the Pennsylvania line, or his order, the film of fourteen pounds fifteen shillings and seventeen pence being on…
Pennsylvania Loan Obligation Certificate for £30
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Philadelphia County. Pennsylvania. No. 99 I do hereby certify that Henry Johnson of the township of Hasfield has furnished this state, for the use of the United States, with one Dark Brown Mare which has appraised by two freeholders,…
A Share in the Permanent Bridge over River Susquehanna
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No. 385 One hundred dollars each share. These are to certify, that the common wealth of Pennsylvania is entitled to one share in the capital or joint stock of the companyy for erecting a permanent bridge over the river Susquehanna, at…
A 5% Perpetual Annuity for the Spanish Royal Treasury
Part Transcription: "Cinco Por Ciento Espan͠ol. Rentas Perpetuas, Pagaderas en Madrid, ó á eleccion del Portador, en Amsterdam, Londres, Paris, Bruselas, Turin. On͠ate, 6 de Febrero de 1836. El Consejaro de Estado, Comisario Regio de S.M. Catolica:…
A 5% Perpetual Annuity for the Spanish Royal Treasury
Part Transcription: "Cinco Por Ciento Espan͠ol. Rentas Perpetuas, Pagaderas en Madrid, ó á eleccion del Portador, en Amsterdam, Londres, Paris, Bruselas, ó Turin. ... On͠ate, 6 de Febrero de 1836. El Consejaro de Estado, Comisario Regio de S.M.…
A Loan of 100 for Real Compan͠ia de Guadalajara
Part Transcription: "Emprestito de la Real Compan͠ia de Guadalajara. Emprestito de £600,000. No. [blank] £100. Loan of £600,000. No. [blank] £100. ... N. B. La presente obligacion se renovarde diez an͠os. This bond will be exchanged ever ten…
A Share in the Middleton & Tonge Cotton Mill Co. Limited
Part Transcription: "Middleton & Tonge Cotton Mill Co. Limited, Registered 15th March 1860. This is to certify that the bearer is the proprietor of one share No. [blank] in the capital of the Middleton & Tonge Cotton Mill Co. Limited ...…
A Mortgage Bond from The Erie and Niagara Railway Company
Part Transcription: "Province of Canada. No. [blank]. 200. First Mortgage Bond. The Erie and Niagara Railway Company. The Erie and Niagara Railway Company, a body polite and corporate, duly incorporated under and by the virtue of the Act Cap. LIX.of…
A Bond for 1,000 Yen
Part Transcription (translated): "The Five Per Cent Loan Bond of The Imperial Government of Japan. One Thousand Yen issued in the 42nd year of Meiji (1909). No. 149347 ... Minister of State for Finance."
A Coupon for Bond No. 149347
Part Transcription: "The Five Per Cent Loan Bond of The Imperial Government of Japan. 40. 25 Yen ... No. 149347."
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Polychronicon
Translated and continued by John Trevisa; revised and expanded to 1460 by William Caxton.Imprint from ISTC; colophon (referring to the preparation of…