t Session.

STOCKHOLDERS, &c. BANK UNITED STATES.

MAY 26, 1830.

Read, and ordered to lie upon the table for one day.

WAYNE submitted the following Resolutions, in relation to the Stockholders of the Bank United States, &c.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to procure, the Bank of the United States, and to furnish this House, on or before first day of January next, with the names of the persons, corporate es, private companies, or copartnerships, who shall be the owners of k in the Bank of the United States, on the first day of November next, the number of shares held by individuals, corporations, companies, or rtnerships, distinguishing the States of the Union, or the countries, in ch said stockholders may reside; and, as far as practicable, showing how y widows, orphans, minors, and unmarried females, in the United States, Owners of stock in the said Bank.

With a statement of the number of persons in the employment of said k, and its branches, their names, wages, or salaries, the amount of secugiven by each person so employed, and who shall be the securities of persons on the first day of November next.

With a statement of the amount of specie imported into the United es, by the Bank of the United States; the amounts exported, and for t objects; showing the cost of that imported, and the arrangements for uring it; whether by bills of exchange, by pledges of stock of the ted States held and owned by the Bank of the United States, or by other k of corporate bodies owned by or pledged to said Bank.

With a statement of the funds which the Bank of the United States 1 have in Europe, on the first day of November next; showing the difat kinds, and that which the Bank shall deem equivalent to specie.

With a statement of the amount of specie received or drawn by the k of the United States from incorporated banks, in the States, and in District of Columbia, distinguishing the amounts from each, at the time United States Bank was carried into operation, or for the purpose of rying the same into operation, or upon the establishment of any branches he said Bank; with the amount of specie in the vaults of said Bank when same began its operations, or began discounting, and the amount of the ,ital of said Bank assigned to its branches, and the changes which the same ve undergone in this regard, since the establishment of said branches. 3. With a statement of the amount of bills or notes of the Banks incorrated by the State Legislatures, acquired by the Bank of the United States 1 its branches, distinguishing the manner the same was acquired by the nk of the United States, when not by deposite, and which have been reemed by said Banks, from week to week, or at other intervals, as may

have been stipulated between the Bank of the United States and such State Banks, showing the contracts with each for the redemption of the notes or bills of each, and the amount of interest paid by said Banks to the Bank of the United States, upon bills or notes not redeemed when the time tipulated for their redemption had arrived.

7. With a statement of the profit received or made by the Bank che United States, for premiums upon bills of exchange, or upon draughts checks, between the States, and between the United States and foreign nations, and the rates of exchange established by said Bank, from time to time, and upon what general rule the Bank fixes said rates.

8. With a statement of the amount of funds of the United States received on deposite at the Bank of the United States and its branches; distinguishing the same as to time and amounts, by months or quarters, beginning from the first deposite made on account of the United States in said Bank, and ending at the expiration of the month or quarter preceding the first day of November next.

9. With a statement of the sums transmitted by the Bank of the United States for the Government of the United States, from and to what places, the times when done, the mode of transfer, and what has been the cost, if any, for doing the same, to the Bank of the United States.

10. With a statement of the amount of loans made by the Bank of the United States to the Government of the United States; moneys advanced, when, and for what purposes, and whether by law or joint resolution of Congress, or upon the request of any functionary of the Government of the United States, with the amount of interest paid by the Government of the United States to said Bank upon loans or money advanced.

11. With a statement of the amount of bills or notes which the Bank of the United States shall have in circulation, or on deposite, at the Bank in Philadelphia, and its branches, on the first day of November next; distin guishing them into the several kinds by what officers signed, and where payable.

12. With a statement of the different kinds of stock pledged to, or at any time owned by, the Bank of the United States, in any other bank, rail-road, or canal company, particularly distinguishing how the same was acquired.

13. With a statement of the transfers of stock of said Bank to the Bank, by way of pledge for loans, or otherwise, made at any time since the Bank began its operations, and which it shall hold on the first day of November

14. With a statement of the real estate owned by the Bank of the United States in the States of the Union, and in the District of Columbia; where situated, and the value affixed to the same by the Bank of the United States.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to procure, is such way as he may deem most suitable to accomplish the object, and v give to this House the most definite information upon the subject, a stat ment of the number of incorporated Banks in the United States and in the District of Columbia, with the amount of capital of each; to what amount they are permitted to discount, by the charters of each; and that the said Banks be requested to give the average annual discounts of each, from the times either of the same were carried into operation; and that the same be furnished this House on or before the first day of January next.