The Bankers' Magazine, and Journal of the Money Market, Volume 25Richard Groombridge, 1865 - Banks and banking |
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31st December affairs amalgamation amount annum April articles of association assets Attwood auditors bad and doubtful balance balance-sheet Bank of England Bank of Ireland Bank of Scotland Bank of Wales bankers Banking Company bills discounted Birmingham bonus branch banks branches carried forward cash cent Chairman Cheers cheque circulation commercial considered creditors debentures declared deposit accounts deposits directors Ditto dividend doubtful debts favourable gentlemen gross profits guarantee half-year ending Hear held increase India interest Joint-Stock Banks liabilities Limited liquidators loans loss account manager meeting ment Messrs Midland Bank month ending moving the adoption Old Bank paid paid-up capital payable payment plaintiff preliminary expenses premium present profit and loss proposed proprietors question re-elected rebate received reserve fund resolution satisfactory securities shareholders shares Staffordshire statement Stock thought tion Union Bank vote of thanks
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Page 281 - The charter of the Bank of the United States expires in 1836, and its stockholders will most probably apply for a renewal of their privileges. In order to avoid the evils resulting from precipitancy in a measure involving such important principles, and such deep pecuniary interests, I feel that I cannot, in justice to the parties interested, too soon present it to the deliberate consideration of the legislature and the people.
Page 119 - That the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and more especially an act entitled "an act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports...
Page 830 - QC, applied for a rule calling upon the plaintiffs in the above case to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, on the ground that the verdict -was against the weight of evidence.
Page 739 - Company in general meeting and such balance sheet shall contain a summary of the property and liabilities of the Company arranged under the heads appearing in the form annexed to this table or as near thereto as circumstances admit.
Page 120 - This right to secede is deduced from the nature of the Constitution, which they say is a compact between sovereign States, who have preserved their whole sovereignty, and therefore are subject to no superior : that because they made the compact, they can break it, when, in their opinion, it has been departed from by the other States.
Page 32 - Texas, the sura of twenty-five thousand & no/100 dollars, for value received, negotiable and payable without defalcation or discount, with interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum...
Page 8 - ... is important, too, that the capital which nourishes our manufactures should be domestic, as its influence in that case instead of exhausting, as it may do in foreign hands, would be felt advantageously on agriculture and every other branch of industry. Equally important is it to provide at home a market for our raw materials, as by extending the competition it will enhance the price and protect the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets.
Page 15 - Is the self-protecting energy of this nation so helpless that there exists in the political institutions of our country no power to counteract the bias of this foreign legislation; that the growers of grain must submit to this exclusion from the foreign markets of their produce; that the shippers must dismantle their ships, the trade of the North stagnate at the wharves, and the manufacturers starve at their looms, while the whole people shall pay tribute to foreign industry...
Page 445 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 446 - States in deposit with the Bank of the United States and its branches, in conformity with the President's opinion, and by appointing his successor to effect such removal, which has been done, the President has assumed the exercise of a power over the treasury of the United States not granted to him by the constitution and laws, and dangerous to the liberties of the people.