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"United States of America"
No $500.00.
The Board of Trustees of the Ohio University
at Athens, Ohio, promises to pay to the bearer, at
the Importers and Traders National Bank, in
the city and state of New York Five Hunded Dollars
on the 1st day of September A. D. with interest
therein at the rate of five per cent per annum
payable semi-annually, on the first days of
March and September of each year until
said principal sum shall have been paid,
Coupons to evidence said payment of interest being
hereto attached. This Certificate of indebtedness is
one of a series numbered from fifty one to seventy
both inclusive, all of the denomination of five hundred
dollars ($500.00) and of even date herewith, an dis
issued in persance of the authority granted by the
Act of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio
passed April 3rd 1900 entitled "An act to authorize
the Board of Trustees of the Ohio [inserted] University [end inserted] to refund certain
certificates of indebtedness heretofore issued." Said
Act limits the total amount of such certificates to
Fifty Five Thousand Dollars ($55.000.00) to be sold from
time to time in such amounts as said Board
of Trustees shall direct, and the State of Ohio has
set aside a sinking fund as authorized by section
3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended March
20th 1891, and as supplemental February 26th 1896 to pay
the principal and interest of this certificate, thus pledging for its
payment the good faith of the State of Ohio.
In witness whereof the Board
of Trustees of the Ohio University has caused
its Corporate Seal to be attached, and this certificate
to be signed by its President and Secretary this ___ of September
AD.

Secretary President