National Debt Act, 1883
WHEREAS by the Sinking Fund Act, 1875, a fixed annual sum of twenty-eight million pounds was charged on the Consolidated Fund as the permanent annual charge for the national debt: And whereas various annuities payable out of such permanent annual charge will expire in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five: And whereas the National Debt Commissioners hold large sums of perpetual annuities on account of trustee savings banks, and Post Office savings banks, and in pursuance of dive...