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Page 20 - But the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith against actually existing values, and the discount of commercial or business paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same, shall not be considered as money borrowed.
Page 29 - or shall make any false entry in any book, report, or statement of the bank, with intent in either case to injure or defraud the bank, *• * * or
Page 20 - person, company, corporation, or firm (including in the liabilities of a company or firm the liabilities of the several members thereof).
Page 23 - enable those long practiced in watching financial movements to steer clear of the more imminent dangers to which such business is necessarily exposed, still it is more or less hazardous, and can attract capital to it as an investment only by the prospect of larger gains than ordinary investments in bond and mortgage.
Page 23 - honorable and important to the interests of the community, but that does not make savings banks of them, nor entitle them to be invested with savings bank powers. Savings banks, on the contrary, are instituted not for the promotion of the interests of their projectors, but for that of the
Page 13 - Under this novel title it is proposed to form an institution in Boston for the security and improvement of the savings of persons in humble life, until required by their wants and desires.
Page 23 - The specific office of each of these two classes of institutions is clearly defined. They are so wholly distinct and unlike, that there is or should be no antagonism between them. For the same reason there should be no intimate connection.
Page 27 - in full, then the said overplus to be divided among the stockholders in proportion to the number of shares of stock owned by each, and not otherwise.
Page 29 - who shall embezzle, abstract, or willfully misapply any of the 'moneys, funds, or credits of the bank, or shall
Page 29 - with intent in either case to injure or defraud the bank, *• * * or to deceive any officer of the bank, or any

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