Note 497 — Chapter IV
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Niles proposed a new bank to be called "The Ragbank of the Universe," main office at "Lottery-ville," and branches at "Hookstown," "Owl Creek," "Botany Bay," and "Twisters-burg." Directors were to be empowered also "to put offices on wheels, on ship-board, or in balloons"; stock to be "one thousand million of old shirts." (Niles, xiv, 227.)