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The annual sum required for the service of interest and amortization
of the Loan, on the basis of present exchange rates, will not exceed about
91,500,000 Gold Marks, The payments to the Agent-General for Reparation
Payments have been fixed at 1,000,000,000 Gold Marks for the first year
and are expected to increase thereafter until they reach 2,500,000,000 Gold
Marks for the fifth and subsequent years. The annual gross receipts of
the controlled revenues are estimated at not less than 1,000,000,000 Gold
Marks, The German (Government may not create any further charge upon
the controlled revenues ranking in priority to or pari passu with the charge
created in favor of the bondholders of this issue,
The German Government has executed a General Bond whereby
S, Parker Gilbert (the Agent-General for Reparation Payments), N. D. Jay
and C, E. ter Meulen have been appointed Trustees for the bondholders of
the Loan. In the event of the termination of the appointment of a Trustee,
other than the Aygyent-General for Reparation Payments, the power of
appointing a new Trustee is vested in the remaining Trustees,
The German Government have agreed that, 15 days prior to the due
date of any instalment of interest and 15 days prior to the due date of
any redemption moneys, there shall be paid to the Trustees the whole of
the funds required to meet the service of such interest and redemption.
With a view to carrying into effect this provision, arrangement is made
for the payment to the Trustees by the Agent-General for Reparation Pay-
ments on the fifteenth day of each calendar month of a sum equivalent to
at least one-twelfth of the amount necessary io meet the service of the
Loan for one year,
The Reparation Commission considers it desirable that the Agent-
General for Reparation Payments should, ex officio, be one of the Trustees
for the bondholders, In order to ensure, if possible, the continuation of
this arrangement, the Reparation Commission will, in the event of the
post of Agent-General becoming vacant, consult with the remaining
Trustees with a view to appointing to the vacant post a person satisfactory
to them as representing the bondholders,
For the purpose of providing the necessary foreign currencies for the
service of the Loan, the German Government, the Reparation Commission,
the Transfer Committee and the Agent-General for Reparation Payments
have agreed that funds required to be sent abroad for that purpose shall
have an absolute right of remittance, which right shall have priority over
the remittance of funds required to be remitted in discharge of revaration
payments or other liabilities.. .
Article 3 of Annex IV of the Final Protocol of the London Conference
Dated 16th August, 1924:
“In order to secure the service of the loan of 800 million gold marks
contemplated by the Experts plan, and in order to facilitate the issue of
that loan to the publie, the signatory Governments hereby declare that, in
case sanctions have to be imposed in consequence of a default by Germany
they will safeguard any specific securities which may be pledged to the
service of the loan.
“The signatory Governments further declare that they consider the
service of the loan as entitled to absolute priority as regards any resources
of Germany so far as such resources may have been subjected to a general
charge in favor of the said loan and also as regards any resources that
May arise as a result of the imposition of sanctions ”
Dr, Luther,
Minister of Finances of the German Reich,
10th October, 1924,