Note XXXIII-42 — Chapter XXXIII · COMMERCE AND FINANCE. 1801-1887.

A security for the payment of the interest and of the sinking fund to extinguish the principal, the revenue from tobacco and customs was hypothecated. Under the contract the interest was payable quarterly together with $50,000 for the sinking fund. It was calculated that the debt would be extinguished in twenty years, and that the interest would come to $482,571. El Indicador de Guat., Apr. 21, May 18, 1826; Guat., Mem. Min. Hac., 1830-1.