Excerpt from Fortune's Epitome of the Stocks Public Funds: Containing Every Necessary Information for Understanding the Nature of Those Securities, and the Manner of Transacting Business Therein: To Which Is Added, a Complete Guide to the Foreign Funds As, in deference to the wishes of the proprietors, the name of "Fortune" is still prefixed to this the fourteenth edition of a useful and deservedly popular manual, I owe it in justice to myself to state, that, while I have mainly adhered to the form and arrangement adopted in preceding editions, I have retained but a very few pages of the original matter. Of "Stocks and Funds" it is the peculiar character to be continually changing, and extensive alterations were, of necessity, required; but, desirous that "Fortune" should not be left behind in the "march" of improvement, I have sought to convert the "Epitome" into a "Guide" by the introduction of such information as may enable the reader to form a tolerably correct idea of the ways and means of the country in whose securities he proposes to invest his capital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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