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... member banks to join federal reserve system as a matter of patriotic duty 88-90 . APPENDIX A COMBINED BALANCE SHEET OF TWELVE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS AS OF MARCH 28 , 1918 , AND BRIEF EXPLANATIONS OF THE VARIOUS ITEMS .. APPENDIX B ...
... member banks to join federal reserve system as a matter of patriotic duty 88-90 . APPENDIX A COMBINED BALANCE SHEET OF TWELVE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS AS OF MARCH 28 , 1918 , AND BRIEF EXPLANATIONS OF THE VARIOUS ITEMS .. APPENDIX B ...
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... Member banks are required to subscribe to the capital stock of the federal reserve bank in their district to an amount equal to six per cent of the member bank's capital and surplus . Only one- half of this subscription has so far been ...
... Member banks are required to subscribe to the capital stock of the federal reserve bank in their district to an amount equal to six per cent of the member bank's capital and surplus . Only one- half of this subscription has so far been ...
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Edwin Walter Kemmerer. banks from dominating the small ones by reason of their greater prestige and to assure the small banks of representation on the board of directors , there is a device by which all the member banks are divided ...
Edwin Walter Kemmerer. banks from dominating the small ones by reason of their greater prestige and to assure the small banks of representation on the board of directors , there is a device by which all the member banks are divided ...
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... banks and the appointment by each federal reserve bank of a member of the federal advisory council federate together the twelve federal reserve banks under the federal reserve board and give a common knowledge and a unity of purpose ...
... banks and the appointment by each federal reserve bank of a member of the federal advisory council federate together the twelve federal reserve banks under the federal reserve board and give a common knowledge and a unity of purpose ...
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... banks of re- serve and central reserve cities . All such de- posited legal reserves were to be withdrawn by the end ... member banks , the law required to be held " in the vaults of the mem- ber banks or in the federal reserve bank , or ...
... banks of re- serve and central reserve cities . All such de- posited legal reserves were to be withdrawn by the end ... member banks , the law required to be held " in the vaults of the mem- ber banks or in the federal reserve bank , or ...
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Page 159 - The shareholders of every national banking association shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts. debts, and engagements of such association to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 179 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this Act,, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 101 - Board, by the Comptroller of the Currency in his own name before the association shall be declared dissolved.
Page 173 - Dividends (Sec. 5199). —The directors of any association may semiannually declare a dividend of so much of the net profits of the association as they shall judge expedient; but each association shall, before the declaration of a dividend, carry one-tenth part of its net profits of the preceding half year to its surplus fund until the same shall amount to twenty per centum of its capital stock.
Page 133 - That no association shall at any time be indebted, or in any way liable, to an amount exceeding the amount of its capital stock at such time actually paid in and remaining undiminished by losses or otherwise, except on the following accounts, that is to say:
Page 136 - ... bills, notes, revenue bonds, and warrants with a maturity from date of purchase of not exceeding six months, issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes or in anticipation of the receipt of assured revenues by any State, county, district, political subdivision, or municipality in the continental United States, including irrigation, drainage and reclamation districts...
Page 124 - To add to the number of cities classified as reserve and central reserve cities under existing law in which national banking associations are subject to the reserve requirements set forth in section twenty of this Act ; or to reclassify existing reserve and central reserve cities or to terminate their designation as such.
Page 98 - An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 105 - Upon duly making and filing articles of association and an organization certificate, the association shall become, as from the date" of the execution of its organization certificate, a body corporate, and as such, and in the name designated in the organization certificate, it shall have power: First.
Page 53 - To suspend for a period not exceeding thirty days, and from time to time to renew such suspension for periods not exceeding fifteen days, any reserve requirement specified in this Act...