OFFICIAL. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 6, 1861. Sealed proposals will be received at this department, until 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, the 11th instant, for four million nine hundred and one thousand dollars in treasury notes, or any part thereof, bearing interest at six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, redeemable in two years, receivable for public dues, or, at the option of the bidder, convertible into six per cent. bonds of the United States. Said notes to be issued under the authority of the acts of Congress approved February 8, 1861, and March 2, 1861. Proposals must state the rate bid for each one hundred dollars, one per centum thereof to be deposited with an assistant treasurer of the United States, and certificates thereof to accompany each bid, and the whole amount, in coin, must be deposited with an assistant treasurer, in equal instalments, at five, ten, and fifteen days, respectively, or the whole amount within five days after the acceptance of bid, at the option of bidder. No proposal at less than par will be considered. Proposals to be indorsed "Proposals for treasury notes." S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. No. 4. Schedule of bids for United States treasury notes of $4,901,000, under notice of April 6, 1861, with the rate per centum, amount accepted, and amount rejected. OFFICIAL. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 11, 1861. Sealed proposals will be received at this department until 12 o'clock noon of Tuesday, the 21st day of May, now current, for the remainder of stock of the United States to be issued under the act of Congres approved 8th of February last, amounting to eight millions nine hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars. This stock will bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July in each year, and will be reimbursable in twenty years from the 1st day of January last. The proposals must state the sum offered for each hundred dollars of stock, and must be for one or more thousands of dollars, without fractions. One One per cent. of the amount offered must be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States at Washington, or with an assistant treasurer at Boston, Philadelphia, or New York, subject to the order of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the certificate showing such deposit must accompany the offer. The act reserves to the Secretary the right to decline bids not regarded as advantageous to the United States. The amounts payable under the accepted offers for this loan must be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States or an assistant treasurer at Boston, New York, or Philadelphia, on or before the 25th day of May, now current; but if any accepted bidder shall desire to deposit at any other point, his request will be considered. On the receipt here of the proper certificates showing such deposit, certificates of inscribed stock will be issued to the successful bidders or their assignees for the amounts to which they may be entitled, in sums of one thousand, five thousand, and ten thousand dollars each, as may be required. Inscribed stock so issued will carry interest from the date of such deposit, and will be transferable on the books of the treasury, agreeably to the regulations of the department. Should any accepted bidder desire certificates of stock with coupons of semi-annual interest attached thereto, they will be issued accordingly, in sums of one thousand dollars each, with coupons attached for interest from the 1st day of July next. Such coupon stock, instead of being transferable on the books of the treasury, may be assigned and transferred by delivery. The interest on such coupon stock, from the date of the deposit therefor to the 1st of July next, will be paid on that day to the accepted bidder, or his assigns or attorney, by the depositary with whom the principal was deposited. The proposals under this notice should be indorsed on the envelopes "Proposals for loan of 8th February, 1861," and addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury; or they may be put under cover to the assistant treasurer at New York, who will forward them to this department. They should be sent in season to be opened and decided at the time above stated. The preliminary deposit of one per cent. required from all bidders will be included in the final deposit of successful bidders, and will be directed to be immediately returned to unsuccessful bidders. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. NOTICE. The time for receiving proposals under the foregoing advertisement is extended until Saturday, the 25th instant. Bidders may propose in the alternative for bonds of the description above set forth at any specified rate, or for an equal amount of treasury notes at any rate not below par, such treasury notes being receivable for public dues, or convertible into twenty years six per cent. bonds, or redeemable in two years, at the option of the holder. If any bidder prefers to make a separate offer for bonds or treasury notes, it will be considered. The offers regarded as most advantageous to the United States will be accepted. All amounts payable under accepted offers must be deposited with the Treasurer or an assistant treasurer on or before the 1st day of June next; or, if preferred, one third may be deposited on or before the first, one-third on or before the tenth, and the remaining third on or before the 20th of June next. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. |