Hearings and Arguments Before the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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Page 366 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 470 - ... in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent as the testator or intestate. or the ward or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
Page 471 - ... issues or puts forth any certificate of deposit, draws any order or bill of exchange, makes any acceptance, assigns any note, bond, draft, bill of exchange, mortgage, judgment, or decree; or who makes any false entry in any book, report...
Page 92 - ... false entry in any book, report, or statement of the association, with intent, in either case, to injure or defraud the association or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of...
Page 93 - ... or cause or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfeiting any of the notes...
Page 467 - Sixth. To prescribe, by its board of directors, by-laws not inconsistent with law, regulating the manner in which its stock shall be transferred, its directors elected or appointed, its officers appointed, its property transferred, its general business conducted, and the privileges granted to it by law exercised and enjoyed.
Page 88 - To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or equity, as fully as natural persons.
Page 378 - Federal reserve bank making such deposit in the manner provided by existing law, shall be entitled to receive from the Comptroller of the Currency circulating notes in blank, registered and countersigned as provided by law, equal in amount to the par value of the bonds so deposited.
Page 89 - That in all elections of directors, and in deciding all questions at meetings of shareholders, each shareholder shall be entitled to one vote on each share of stock held by him. Shareholders may vote by proxies duly authorized in writing; but no officer, clerk, teller, or book-keeper of such association shall act as proxy; and no shareholder whose liability is past due and unpaid shall be allowed to vote.
Page 92 - That if any person shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging or counterfeiting any...
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| Title | Hearings and Arguments Before the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives ... Hearings and Arguments Before the Committee, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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