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Show FORGOTTEN "GOVERNMENT BONDS Knowledge that the Treasury has grown somewhat" uneasy as to whether a very large amount of the Second Liberty bonds may not fail to be either converted or presented for redemption on November Nov-ember 15 th this notwithstanding interest payments cease on them at that time has caused inquiry in Wall Sreet as to how great an amount of other bond issues, matured long ago, are still unaccounted unac-counted for. The Treasury's statement of last June showed that $45,518,122 of matured government obligations on which interest had ceased were still outstanding. In the last complete annual report re-port it was shown that $2, 324, 500 of matured pre-war bonds had not been presented at the Treasury. This total included $285,660 cf bonds issued during the Civil War, many of which had matured more than half a century ago. It also included $151,610 United States bonds of issue so old that they had matured for payment before be-fore the Civil War. How much of these amounts represented bonds which had been lost or destroyed and how much, if any, bonds ! which had been forgotten by their owners, the Treasury had no in-! in-! formation. New York Times. |