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balance sheets bank notes Bank of England Bank of Ireland Bank of Scotland bank rate banking institutions Barrister-at-Law bill brokers bills discounted bills of exchange branch banking bullion cause cent cheques City of Glasgow Clearing House commercial crises commodities Company consequence country banks credit documents crisis currency customers debt decrease demand for capital deposit accounts deposits dividends Edition effect fluctuations following table shows foreign formed Glasgow Bank goldsmiths Government important increase investments issue department issue notes joint-stock banks large number lend lent liabilities loans London banks Lord Overstone means merchants money market monopoly note circulation note issue number of bills obtained offices paid panic payable payment present private banks profit proportion Provincial Bank rate of discount rate of interest Scotch banks securities silver speculation Stock Exchange surplus capital trade transactions United Kingdom utilised value of money دو دو دو
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Page 5 - Parliament, and that it shall not be lawful for any body politic or corporate whatsoever created or to be created, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership exceeding the number of six persons in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable on demand or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 187 - A draft or'bill of exchange, within the meaning of this regulation, is defined as an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay in the United States, at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in dollars to the order of a specified person...
Page 136 - Street is to say that it is by far the greatest combination of economical power and economical delicacy that the world has ever seen.
Page 34 - Majesties may appoint rules for transferring, and make the subscribers a corporation by the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England".
Page 5 - Treatise on the Law Relating to Debentures and Debenture Stock issued by Trading and Public Companies and by Local Authorities, with Forms and Precedents. Third and Revised Edition. Price 21s. SIMONSON, PAUL F., MA (Oxon.).— continued. The Law relating to the Reconstruction and Amalgamation of Joint Stock Companies, together with Forms and Precedents.
Page 19 - What checks can be provided to secure for the public a proper management of banks of issue, and especially whether it would be expedient and safe to compel them periodically to publish their accounts.
Page 46 - That from and after the passing of this act it shall not be lawful for any banker to draw, accept, make, or issue, in England or Wales, any bill of exchange or promissory note or engagement for the payment of money payable to bearer on demand, or to borrow, owe, or take up, in England or Wales, any sums or sum of money on the bills or notes of such banker payable to bearer on demand...
Page 21 - Universal Cambist. A Ready Reckoner of the World's. Foreign and Colonial Exchanges of Seven Monetary and Currency Intermediaries, also the Present Mechanism of the Interchanges of Things between Man and Man and between Community and Community.
Page 31 - McNeill's Code. Arranged to meet the requirements of Mining, Metallurgical and Civil Engineers, Directors of Mining, Smelting and other Companies, Bankers, Stock and Share Brokers, Solicitors, Accountants, Financiers, and General Merchants. Safety and Secrecy. 8vo, cloth $6.00 McPHERSON, JA (A.