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proper book of the corporation to the officer; and to furnish him with a certificate, under his hand, in his official capacity, stating the number of shares the debtor holds in said bank and the amount of dividends declared and due thereon.

SECTION 19. That the said corporation shall not take more than seven per cent. per annum on its loans and discounts, in advance.

SECTION 20. That no note or bill shall be issued by said bank, of a less denomination than five dollars, and that the bank shall not issue any bill or note until the sum of forty thousand dollars in the legal coin of the United States shall be paid into the said corporation by the stockholders, as a part of the stock: provided, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to deprive the legislative assembly, in four years from this time, from prohibiting the issuing of notes from this bank of a less denomination than ten dollars, or in ten years from this time, of a less denomination than twenty dollars, if the legislative assembly should deem it expedient to do so.

SECTION 21. In case any subscriber to the stock of this corporation, shall fail to pay any instalment called for, as is provided in section third, his or her stock shall be forfeited, with what may have been paid upon the same, to the corporation: provided, the same be not paid (with the interest thereon, at twelve per cent. per annum) within ninety days after the time when it is due, agreeable to the notice of the commissioners or directors for said installments.

SECTION 22. No one director shall be permitted at any one time to become indebted to the bank by loans, endorsement or otherwise, to an amount exceeding five thousand dollars.

SECTION 23. That this act be and the same is hereby declared to be a public act, and that the same be for the time herein before limited, construed in all courts and places benignly and favorably, for every beneficial purpose therein mentioned: provided, that if said corporation shall fail to go

into operation, or shall abuse or misuse their privileges under this charter, it shall be in the power of the legislative assembly of this territory, at any time, to annul, vacate and make void this charter.

P. H. ENGLE,

Speaker of the house of representatives.
HENRY S. BAIRD,

President of the council.
H. DODGE.

Approved, Nov. 30, 1836.

Congressional:

APPENDIX B.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Primary Authorities.

Executive Documents from 1836 to 1846.

Reports of Secretary of the Treasury from 1836 to 1846. Finance Reports, 1876, and 1879.

Journal of House of Representatives, 1846.

Journal of Senate, 1846.

Report of Financial Condition of the United States, 1855, 1858, 1861.

State:

Journal of House of Representatives of Iowa Territory, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Sessions.

Journal of Council of Iowa Territory, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Sessions.

Governor's Messages from 1836 to 1858.

Session Laws from 1836 to 1858.

Journal of Constitutional Convention, 1844.

Journal of the Constitutional Convention, 1846.

State Supreme Court Reports, cited.

Miscellaneous:

Council and House Journals of Wisconsin Territory for

1837, 1838, and 1839.

Session Laws of Different States, cited.

United States Supreme Court Reports, cited.

Mississippi Supreme Court Reports, cited.

Indiana Supreme Court Reports, cited.

Court Records of Dubuque County from 1836 to 1848.
Governor's Messages of Different States, cited.

Secondary Authorities.

Iowa Capital Reporter, 1841, '42, '43, '44, '45 and '46.

Iowa Standard, 1840, '41, '42, '43, '44 and part of '45.
Bloomington Herald, 1840, '41, '42, '43, '44, '45, and '46.
The Dubuque Visitor, 1836-37.

The Iowa News, 1837, '38, and '39.
Burlington Hawkeye, 1840 and 1841.
Ohio Statesman, 1844.

Cincinnati Globe, 1844.

Indiana Sentinel, 1844.

Dubuque Miners' Express.

Gouge's Journal of Banking, 1841 and 1842.
Raguet's Financial Register, 1837 and 1839.
Hunt's Merchants Magazine from 1837 to 1858.

Niles Register from 1837 to 1850.

Bankers' Magazine, Vols. 7-20.

Rhodes' Journal of Banking.

BAKER, H. F., Banks and Banking in the United States, 1854. Blodgett's Economica.

BOLLES, A. S., Financial History of the United States, 3 vols. BURRIE, S., Annals of Prairie Du Chien.

CAREY, M., Essays on Banking, Philadelphia.

ELLIOTT, J., Funding System of U. S. Senate Doc., 1845. Fairall's Handbook of Iowa Politics.

FISH, T., The Banking Bubble Burst, Charleston, 1837. GALLATIN, A., Considerations on the Currency and Banking System of the United States, Philadelphia, 1831.

Suggestions on the Banks and Currency of the Several United States, N. Y., 1841.

GOUGE, W. M., Short History of Money and Banking in the United States, Philadelphia, 1833.

KNOX, J. J., United States Notes, N. Y., 1884.

RAQUET, CONDY, Inquiry into the Causes of the Present State of the Circulating Medium of the United States, Philadelphia, 1815.

Treatise on Currency and Banking, Philadelphia, 1839. TUCKER, A. V., History of Banking, Richmond, 1839. WHITNEY, D. R., Suffolk Bank, 1878.

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