Annual Report, Volume 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Banks and banking |
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aggregate amount April Atlanta August average Bank & Trust bankers Bills discounted borrowings Boston building cent certificates of indebtedness Chairman and Federal checks Chicago Cleveland cost County currency current expenses current net earnings Dallas December 31 decline directors discount rates exchange February Federal Reserve Act Federal reserve agent Federal Reserve Bank Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve District Federal Reserve notes Federal Reserve System Fiscal agency franchise tax Government obligations increase issued January July June 30 Kansas City liabilities Liberty bonds Louis March member banks ment Minneapolis months National Bank note circulation November October officers and employees operations paper discounted payment Philadelphia Pittman Act rediscount Reserve Bank notes reserve ratio Richmond salaries paid San Francisco Savings Bank Sept September square feet thousands of dollars tion Total resources transactions Treasury trust companies United States securities Victory notes York
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Page 302 - State or local law, the right to act as trustee, executor, administrator, registrar of stocks and bonds, guardian of estates, assignee, receiver, committee of estates of lunatics, or in any other fiduciary capacity in which State banks, trust companies, or other corporations which come into competition with national banks are permitted to act under the laws of the State in which the national bank is located.
Page 358 - right' is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
Page 374 - After all necessary expenses of a Federal reserve bank have been paid or provided for, the stockholders shall be entitled to receive an annual dividend of six per centum on the paid-in capital stock, which dividend shall be cumulative. After the aforesaid dividend claims have been fully met, all the net earnings shall be paid to the United States as a franchise tax, except that one-half of such net earnings shall be paid into a surplus fund until it shall amount to forty per centum of the paid-in...
Page 357 - ... scheme. It is alleged that the proposed conduct will deprive the plaintiffs of their property without due process of law contrary to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and that it is ultra vires.
Page 98 - Federal reserve bank may discount notes, drafts, and bills of exchange arising out of actual commercial transactions; that is, notes, drafts, and bills of exchange issued or drawn for agricultural, industrial, or commercial purposes, or the proceeds of which have been used, or are to be used, for such purposes...
Page 93 - Act contained shall be construed to prohibit such notes, drafts and bills of exchange, secured by staple agricultural products, or other goods, wares, or merchandise from being eligible for such discount; but such definition shall not include notes, drafts, or bills covering merely investments or issued or drawn for the purpose of carrying or trading in stocks, bonds or other investment securities, except bonds and notes of the Government of the United States.
Page 92 - Provided, That notes, drafts, and bills drawn or issued for agricultural purposes or based on live stock and having a maturity not exceeding six months may be discounted in an amount to be limited to a percentage of the capital of the Federal reserve bank, to be ascertained and fixed by the Federal Reserve Board.
Page 351 - ... (8) Obligations of any person, copartnership, association, or corporation in the form of notes secured by not less than a like amount of bonds or notes of the United States issued since April 24, 1917, or certificates of indebtedness of the United States...
Page 361 - Third. To make contracts. Fourth. To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or equity.
Page 361 - 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...