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Treasury Department, Confederate States of America, Richmond, august 8, 1864.

Certificates of Indebtedness Bearing Six Per Cent. Per interest and Free from Taxation.--By the fourteenth section of the act to reduce that , approved February 17, 1864, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue the payable two years after the treaty of peace with the United States. They not be sold, but are only to be issued to such of the Government as are willing to receive the same in payment of their demands. They be given at par, though free from taxation.

The attention of purchasing agents and abusing officers of the Government as called to this class of public securities as offering peculiar advantages to those from whom the supplies of the Government are bought; and to facilitate the use of the drawn by disbursing officers upon the holding these funds, and marked across the "payable in certificates of " will be paid in conformity therewith.

Depositaries are hereby, authorized and to comply with this regulation, and to make application to the Register for supplies of required.

[Signed] G. A. Trenholm,
Secretary of Treasury. au 22--ts

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