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CITY OF LONDON BONDS . DISCHARGE AND RENEWAL OF BONDS FALLING DUE IN THE . YEAR lSS" ! . In obedience to an ORDER of the I'inance Committee of fie CORPORATION OF LONDON , 1 do hereby GIVE NOTICE to the holders , registered or otherwise , of City Bonds , which mature within the ensuing year , 1 SS 2 , as follows : — ...

, „ , „_„ , , , ( 1 . ) That the Bonds referred to in the FIRST'Schedule hereto will be paid off ( out of funds specially applicable to such purposes ) absolutely and without option of renewal , at the dates at which they respectively mature . ( 2 . ) That the Bonds referred to in the SECOND Schedule hereto will also be paid off at the dates of their

maturity respectively , but that an OPTION is given to the holders of such Bonds to renew the Loans severally secured for a period of TEN YEARS from the dates at which they severally fall due by Bonds to carry interest at the rate of of £ 3 per cent , per annum , but to be issued to present holders at £ 07 ios . per cent ., which will pay them a full rate of THREE POUNDS FIVE SHILLINGS PER

CENT . PER ANNUM . Holders of Bonds desiring to avail themselves of this option of renewal must signify to me their agreement thereto , and bring their Bonds for marking to this Office , ON OR BEFORE THE THIRTY-FIRST OF

DECEMBER NEXT . The Loans renewed under these options will be for the like purposes and on the same securities as the existing Bonds , interest being payable , as at present , by means of Coupons , at the BANK OF ENGLAND , negotiable through any banker .

SCHEDULE I . Bonds to be paid off absolutely . Bonds issued under the Holborn Valley Improvement Act , 1 S 64 , and maturing on the 1 st January , 1 SS 2 , viz .: — 38 Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 399 to 405 , 779 . S 49 to SGS , and 915 to 924 3 S , ooo 49 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 504 to

507 , S 6 9 to S 94 , and 925 to 943 24 . 500 41 Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos . 543 and 544 , S 42 to S 4 S , 8 95 to 914 , and 944 to () 5 s 4 . io ° Bonds issued under the same Act , and maturing on thc 30 th June , 1 S 82 , viz . : 22 Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 1 , 540 to 1 , 501 22 , 000

4 Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos . 1 , 562 to 1 , 565 4 < JO Bonds issued under the same Act , and maturing on the 1 st July , 1 S 22 . viz .: — 92 Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . no , 40 G to 42 . 3 , 5 G 0 to 599 , and 95 G to 9 SS ... 92 , 000 iS Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 50 S and

509 , and gS 9 to 1 , 004 y , ooo 2 S Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos . 545 to 559 , and 1 , 005 to i , ° ' 7 2 , Soo Bonds issued under the same Act , and maturing on the 31 st December , 1 SS 2 , viz .: — id Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos i , 5 GG to 1 , 591 26 , 000

2 lS , 000 Bonds issued under the Contagious Discases ( Animals ) Act iS 59 , for constructing the F ' oreign Cattle Market for the Metropolis , maturingon the 25 th January , 1 SS 2 , viz . : — 2 Bonds for £ 10 , 000 each , Nos . 1 and 2 20 , 000 Part of Bond for £ 10 , 000 , No . 3 ... 6 , 000

26 , 000 Bonds issued under the Billingsgate Market Act , 1 S 71 , and maturing on the 19 th March , 1 SS 2 , viz .: — 4 Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 241 to 244 . - 4 . 000 Bond issued in respect of rebuilding the Royal Exchange ( Loan of £ 76 , 800 ) ,

secured upon the City ' s moiety of the Gresham Estates , viz .: — Bond for £ 1 , 000 , No . 3 , maturing on the nth May , 1 SS 2 1 , 000 Part of Bond issued under the Act for rebuilding Blackfriais Bridge , viz . : — No . 151 for £ 50 , 000 , maturing on the 2 Sth July , 1 SS 2 25 , 000 Total £ 274 , 800

SCHEDULE II . Bonds maturing in 1 SS 2 with an option of renewal . Bonds issued under the Contagious Diseases ( Animals ) Act , 1 S 69 , for constructing the Foreign Cattle Market for the Metropolis , maturing on the 25 th January , 1 SS 2 ,

. : — Part of Bond for £ 10 , 000 , No . 3 4 , 4 Bonds for £ 10 , 000 each , Nos . 4 to 7 40 , 000 1 Bond for £ 6 , 000 , No . S 6 , 000 5 ° . ttonds issued under the Act for providing the Metropolitan Cattle Market , Islington , and maturing on the 30 th January , 1 SS 2 ,

viz .: — 2 Bonds for £ 10 , 000 each , Nos . 752 and 753 20 , 000 1 Bond for £ 4 , , No . 754 4 , 000 24 , 000 Bonds issued under the Billingsgate Market Act , 1 S 71 , and maturing on the 19 th March , 1 SS 2 , viz . : — n Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 24 , 5

to 255 11 , 000 8 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 25 G to 263 4 , 10 Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos 264 to 273 1 , 000 ¦ 16 , 000 Bonds issued for the purposes of the

Slaughter Houses at the Metropolitan Cattle Market , and maturingon the 25 th May , 1 SS 2 , viz .: — 9 Bunds for £ . 1 , 000 each Nos . 35 to 43 9 , 000 12 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 44 to 55 6 , 000 10 Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos . 56 to 65 1 , 000 16 , 000 Carried forward £ ioG , ooo

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Brought forward £ 106 , 000 Bonds issued under the London Central Markets Act , 1 S 75 , for the purposes of the London Central Poultry and Provision Market ( being Loan of £ 110 , 000 ) dated 3 oth September , 1 S 75 , and maturing on the 1 st July , 1 SS 2 , viz .: — 1 Bond , No . 1 , for 10 , 000

S 2 Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 2 to S 3 82 , 000 31 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . S 4 to 114 15 , 500 25 Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos . 115 to 139 2 , 500 110 , 000 Bends issued for the purpose of Billingsgate Market , being Loan of £ 50 , 600 dated 30 th September , 1 S 75 , and maturing on the 1 st July , 1 SS 2 , viz :

45 Bondsfor £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 1 to 45 45 , 70 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 46 to 55 5 . °°° 50 , 000 Bonds issued under the Holborn Valley Improvement ( Additional Works ) Act , 1 S 67 , and maturing on the 5 th July , 1 SS 2 , viz : 250 Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 1 to 250 250 , 000

330 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 251 to 600 175 , 000 750 Bonds for £ 100 each , Nos . 601 to 1350 ¦¦ 75 . 500 , 000 Bonds issued under the Act for rebuilding Blackfriars Bridge , and maturing on ' the 2 Sth July , iSi 2 , viz : — Part of Bond viz .: No . 151 for

£ 50 , 000 25 , 000 3 Bonds for £ 50 , 000 each , Nos . 152 to 154 150 , 000 175 ) 00 ° Bonds issued under the Act for providing the Metropolitan Cattle Market ,

Islington , and maturingon 10 th October , 1 SS 2 , viz : — 10 Bonds for £ 5 , 000 each , Nos . 514 , to 523 50 , 000 Bonds isued for the like purpose , and maturing on the 31 st October , 1 SS 2 , viz : — iS Bonds for £ 1 , 000 each , Nos . 524

to 541 iS , ooo 4 Bonds for £ 500 each , Nos . 542 t 0 545 2 , 000 70 , 000 Total £ 1 , 011 , 000 Further information , if needed , will be furnished at this Department .

BENJAMIN SCOTT , Chamberlain . Chamber of London , Guildhall , 21 st October , 1 SS 1 .

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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 29 , 1881 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by oar correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to ail to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ]

A CHRISTMAS "FREEMASON . " Dear Brother , in answer to your query , 1 beg to reply that our worthy Publisher intends to bring out ( D . V . ) a Christinas

Prccmason , and that I shall be happy to receive your proposed contribution , and the contributions of any of our literary brethren ( light tales or poetry ) , and give to them , one and all , the most careful and fraternal consideration . I am , tlear Brother , yours sincerely , EDITOR ' * FREEMASON . "

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THE BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , " A Young Ruler of the Craft " has pointed out certain alleged irregularities , which will no doubt be duly ventilated in your columns . Your correspondent lays stress

—as it seems to me—rightly upon the qualification of lodge Mastership being rigidly exacted in all cases demanded b y our laws . In the Book of Constitution , at p . 12 S , we find : " Every new lodge should be solemnly constituted . ' . . - . in the absence of the Giand Master by his Deputy . , \ . •. If the

Deputy be absent , the Grand Master may appoint some other Grand Officer , or Master of a lodge , to act as Deputy pro tempore . " It therefore appears that in the absence of the Grand , Pro , and Deputy Grand Masters , none but actual ( i . e ., Present not Past ) Grand Officers and Masters of lodges can be legally empowered to constitute , or , as fashion now has

it , to consecrate a new lodge . Whether this restriction is reasonable or otherwise , it is not my province to determine , but so long as it remains unrepealed in our statute book , the law relating to the constitution of lodges , like every other law and edict of Grand Lodge , ought to be strictly observed . Yours fraternall y , AN OLD RULER OF THE CRAFT .

THE PROPOSEDjBATH FOR THE GIRLS' SCHOOL . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Exception has been taken to the establishment of a swimm ing-bath at the Girls' School on the ground that . it does not come within the objects to which the funds should

be app hed , viz . : Feeding , Clothing , and Education . Accepting the definition of the objects of the Institution , the whole question of a bath seems to turn on the narrowness or breadth of the interpretation that should be given to the term " Education . " In the time of many of us still living it was considered that education for girls , even in

high-class boarding-schools , should be limited to mental training and accomplishments , all active physical training being not only treated as outside acourseof education , but in many instances positively discouraged as unfeminine . Even now in many girls' schools the only real exercise is limited to the mild form of " calisthenics . " Is it not most

desirable that a broader view should be taken in a girls ' school such as ours ? It must be borne in mind that the girls when they leave it will have to earn their own living , and that a good stock of health andstrcngth is of the utmost importance to their future welfare . Debarred , as schoolgirls are , from the health-giving games of cricket , football ,

& c , the value to them of the pleasurable exercise of swimming in promoting health and strengthening the bodily frame can scarcely be over-estimated . But important from this point of view as is the exercise of swimming , and useful as the art might prove in after life , it may nevertheless be admitted that the desirability of

learning swimming is not the strongest argument in favour of a bath . Bro . Dubois , in submitting the motion , happily applied the phrase , " Cleanliness is ne :. t to Godliness . " In the Girls' School the numbers have now become so large that it must be difficult , indeed hardly possible , that perfect cleanliness can be thoroughly and permanently inculcated

and enforced except by providing the means of immersion . Lavatories with merely wash-hand basins can scarcel y be made adequately available for such numbers , and to provide a sufficiency of individual baths would involve an expenditure for building , for apparatus , and for the supply of water to , and carrying off the waste from each bath ,

which would startle even those who consider the cost of a swimming bath high . Given a large bath , and the arrangements for teaching swimming in it would be but a small portion of the cost ; indeed , after a time , would be next to nothing , as those pupils who had acquired the art would no doubt readily impart their knowledge of it to others .

A large bath , therefore , available for all the pupils , seems to have become a necessity . It is to . he hoped it will be carried out with unanimous , or all but unanimous , concurrence , and the House Committee may no doubt be trusted to keep down the cost to the lowest point , consistently with the object in view . The mental training in the School is admittedly excellent , and if to this be added the increased

health and strength resulti ng from those habits of cleanliness which necessarily follow from the practice of immersion and of swimming ( for who ever knew a swimmer uncleanly in person ?) , may it not be further hoped that when the Girls leave the School at the expiration of their respective terms , each will carry with her that great blessing so well summed up in the old saying , Mens sana in corporc sano I Yours faithfully and fraternally , X .

LODGE . SECRETARIES . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — The Masters of the various lodges throughout the Craft will thank you for drawing ( he attention of the brethren to the duty of a Secretary ; permit me to increase

the volume of obligation that Freemasonry owes to you by asking , through your columns , the attention of your readers to the duties of brethren who arc not Secretaries . Admitted that the tact , diligence and courtesy of a Secretary make a successful lodge , these valuable qualities are inoperative if corresponding virtues from the various mem-