Speeches of Joseph Henry Walker of Massachusetts: Ten Years Member of Eight Years First Republican Named On, and Four Years Chairman of ... , 1898-18991899 - 289 pages |
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Page 250 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling exchange, coin and bullion; by loaning money on personal security; and by obtaining, issuing and circulating notes according to the provisions of this Title.
Page 248 - ... such bonds to be payable at the pleasure of the United States after one year from the date of their issue, and to...
Page 285 - The legislature shall establish courts of arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear, and determine all differences, and controversies between organizations or associations of laborers, and their employers, which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the legislature may provide.
Page 251 - ... that taxes upon the transfer of any estate, property or interest therein limited, conditioned, dependent or determinable upon the happening of any contingency or future event, by reason of which the fair market value thereof cannot be ascertained at the...
Page 284 - The objects of the Association shall be the effecting at one place of the daily exchanges between the several Associated Banks, and the payment at the same place of the balances resulting from such exchanges.
Page 23 - We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved.
Page 241 - Treasurer upon complying with the conditions prescribed for the reassignment of such bonds to associations in liquid tion; and the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to reassign and deliver such bonds to the association from which he received them upon being notified by the Comptroller of the Currency that such association is in compliance with this section of this Act. SEC. 2. That any banking association organized under the laws of any State that shall place on deposit...
Page 241 - Referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency and ordered to be printed US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1964 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Washington, July 1, 1964.
Page 252 - Comptroller may at all times know the condition of each national banking association, each association shall make such record at the close of each day as the Comptroller shall request, in a book kept for that purpose, which record shall show the total amount of its...
Page 242 - States in the manner provided by existing law, such association 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...