ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

treasurer of the state upon each of said certifi-
cates of indebtedness, when the same is issued
for exchange, or other disposition under the pro-
visions of this act, the date of such issue and
the time from which interest shall begin to run
thereon.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in order to
provide for the exchange of the certificates of
indebtedness issued under the provisions of this
act for the sterling bonds, or evidences of sterl-
ing indebtedness referred to in the preamble of

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this act, the governor, comptroller of the treasury
and treasurer of this state, or a majority of
them, be and they are hereby directed to adver-
tise twice a week, for six weeks, between the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty -nine, and the first day of April, eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, in two newspapers
published in the city of London, and twice a
week, for three successive weeks, between the
first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, and the first day of May, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-nine, in two newspapers pub-
lished in each of the cities of Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York ; that the treasurer of
this state will be in readiness between the first
day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
and the fifteenth day of June, in said last men-
tioned year, to exchange at such place or places
as may be named in said respective advertise-
ments certificates of indebtedness issued under
this act for sterling bonds, or evidences of sterl-
ing indebtedness issued under the act of eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, chapter three hundred
and eighty-six, upon the terms hereinafter in
this section prescribed ; and the treasurer of this

Advertise
when ready to
exchange.

state is hereby authorized and may be required,
between the first day of May and the fifteenth
day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, by the holders of any of the sterl-
ing bonds, or evidences of sterling indebtedness
of this state issued under the act of eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, chapter three hundred
and eighty-six, to exchange before the fifteenth
day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, and as of the date of the first day
of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, any

Treasurer
required to
exchange.