Statement of Hon. James H. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency, Made Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, (at the Request of the Committee) on the Existing Financial and Banking Situation and the Proposed Remedies, January 28, February 1, 2, 8, and 18, 1897

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - 435 pages
 

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Page 358 - ... 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 358 - Treasury, as required by section six of an act entitled ,An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes...
Page 364 - 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 356 - 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 357 - AN ACT DIRECTING THE PURCHASE OF SILVER BULLION AND THE ISSUE OF TREASURY NOTES THEREON, AND...
Page 379 - Act to enable national banking associations to extend their corporate existence, and for other purposes," approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as prohibits any national bank which makes any deposit of lawful money in order to withdraw its circulating notes from receiving any increase of its circulation for the period of six months from the time it made such deposit of lawful money for the purpose aforesaid...
Page 357 - Act to secure its circulating notes, shall pay to the Treasurer of the United States, in the months of January and July, a tax of one-fourth of one per centum each half year upon the average amount of such of its notes in circulation...
Page 270 - ... and I do not want to take up the time of the committee when I know that you are busy on other matters.
Page 372 - ... the estates and funds in their hands shall be liable in like manner and to the same extent as the testator, intestate, ward, or person interested in such trust funds would be, if living and competent to act and hold the stock in his own name.
Page 379 - Section 5138. No association shall be organized with a less capital than one hundred thousand dollars, except that banks with a capital of not less than fifty thousand dollars may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, be organized in any place the population of which does not exceed six thousand inhabitants...

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