------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------------
Branch. | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910.
------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------------
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £
| | | | |
INTERNAL DEBT. | | | | |
| | | | |
Consolidated 3 | | | | |
per cent. | | | | |
stock[14] |1,299,448|2,175,210|2,354,300|2,389,668|2,399,309
Other |1,744,242| 551,240| 279,885| 165,784| 119,156
------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------------
Totals |3,043,690|2,726,050|2,634,185|2,555,452|2,518,465
------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------------
| | | | |
FOREIGN DEBT. | | | | |
| | | | |
National 3 per | | | | |
cent. bonds by | | | | |
diplomatic | | | | |
agreements | 483,169| 466,919| 453,295| 433,309| 417,414
Provisional | | | | |
(Spanish) | | | | |
certificates | 62| 62| 62| 62| 62
Diplomatic 3 per | | | | |
cent. debt |4,993,627|4,868,978|4,735,958|4,604,572|4,418,987[15]
Claims awarded | | | | |
by Hague | | | | |
Tribunal, 1903 | 883,799| 777,514| 647,344| 518,409| 359,562
------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------------
Totals |6,360,657|6,113,473|5,836,659|5,556,352|5,196,025
------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------------
FOOTNOTES
[1] This lake has recently been drained by an English syndicate, who
have already found some evidence which tends to show that the story is
substantially correct.
[2] “Another fourth part was discovered ... by Amerigo Vespucci:
wherefore I do not see why it should not be justly permissible to name
it after Amerigo the discoverer ... Amerigē, the land of Americus, or
America.”
[3] “MOST MAGNIFICENT SIR,—Among other papers of your worship’s found
in this city, there was a letter addressed to me, with more offers and
preambles than there are stars in the sky.”
[4] “Our Lord protect the most magnificent person of your worship,
“Your servant,
“LOPE DE AGUIRRE.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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