Deposit form, Confederate States of America, 1885 August 19

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Summary

Title:
Deposit form, Confederate States of America
Dates:
1885 August 19
Creators:
National Safe Deposit Company
Abstract:
Deposit form for bonds purchased from the Confederate States of America, issued in 1885. This document summarized CSA bonds deposited with the National Safe Deposit Company, Limited of England.
Extent:
0.02 linear feet (1 folder)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Deposit form, Confederate States of America, Wyles SC 1123. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

Deposit form 4408. Dated: 8/19/85. Also contains names of bondholders' trustees. Deposit form for bonds purchased from the Confederate States of America, issued in 1885. This document summarized CSA bonds deposited with the National Safe Deposit Company, Limited of England.

The purpose of the British Bondholder Committee was to pool all of the outstanding Confederate bonds purchased by England with an attempt to collect on them. Bondholders would deposit their bonds into an account and were given a scrip certificate in exchange. Payment was never made on the bonds since the Confederacy no longer existed after the war and the U.S. would not honor the payment.

Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections staff, 2015.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-07-24 09:55:16 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Deposit form, Confederate States of America, Wyles SC 1123. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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