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and State of New York ($500.00) Five hundred dollars
on the first day of September AD____ , with interest thereon
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. Thiscertificate of indebtedness is
one of a series numbered from 91-to110 inclusive;
all of the denominations of five hundred dollars
($500.00) each and of even [?date?] herewith and is
issued in pursuance of the authority granted by the
Act of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio passed
April 3. 1900 entitled "An Act to authorize the
Board of Trustees of the Ohio University to refund
certain Certificates of indebtedness hereto pre issued"-
[inserted] O.U. Certificates [end inserted] Said Act limits the total amount
of said 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 Statuts of Ohio,
as Amended March 20th, 1891, and as supplemented
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 coporate Seal to be
attached and its certificate to be signed by its President
and Secretary this _____ day of ______ [crossed out] September [end crossed out] AD ______

__________ ____________
Secretary . President
Coupon
$12.50
On the first day of _________, the Board of
Trustees of the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio
will pay to the bearer Twelve and 50/100 dollars ($12.50)