INDEX
Reading edition
Active circulation, 59
Advances to customers, 92, 100
Amalgamations, 80, 164
Arbitrage, 131
Bank Act of 1844:
Main provisions of, 29;
suspensions of, 35, 36, 38
— of France, 127, 149
— paper, 139
— post bills, 69
— rate, 74, 139, 143
— return: the first issued, 32
Bankers’ balances, 65, 90
Banking department, 62
Berlin: specie points, 128
Bill-brokers, 51, 90
— — guarantees, 108
Bills under discount, 92, 100
Board of Trade Returns, 154
Branch banks, 80, 164
Buying gold, 149
Call and short money, 50, 94, 147
Cash payments: suspension of, 12
’Change, 134
Circulation: active, 59
Clearing House, 79, 115
— — Returns, 119, 154
Closing prices, 160
Competition, 163
Continental investment in London bills, 140
Country clearing, 117
Course of exchange, 135
Deficiency bills, 70
Exchange: favourable or unfavourable, 128
— long, 136
— short, 136, 139
Exchequer bills, 51, 92
— — closure of by Charles II., 5
Export specie points, 126
Favourable exchange, 128
Fixed price of issue, 159
Floaters, 111
Fluctuations of exchange rates, 129
Foreign bankers, 46, 54, 110, 139
Gold movements, 123, 142
— reserves, 162, 169
Goldsmiths, 4, 19
Import specie points, 127
Indian Government, 52
— price of silver, 152
Investments, 91, 97, 99
Issue department, 57
— at fixed price, 159
— by tender, 158
Joint-stock banks, 19, 21, 49, 77
Limited liability, 79, 145
Liquid assets, 93
Lombards, 3
Long exchange, 136
Mexican dollars, 152
Money market, 47
Monopoly of joint-stock banking, 10, 15, 23, 76
New York specie points, 128
One-reserve system, 67, 162
Par of exchange, 125
Paris: specie points, 127
Post days, 134
Premises, 93-100
Rediscounting, 110
Reichsbank, 34, 128, 149
Reserve, 73, 143
— capital, 83
— funds, 83, 104
Royal Exchange, 132
Short exchange, 136, 139
— loan fund, 49, 113
Silver, 150
Specie points, 126
Stock Exchange, 52, 96, 156
Suspension of cash payments, 12
— Bank Charter Act, 35, 36, 38
Tender system, 158
Till money, 60, 90
Tower of London: seizure of moneys, 4
Trade bills, 106, 139
Traffic returns, 153
Treasury bills, 51, 148, 158
Unfavourable exchange, 128
Visible gold reserves, 169
Ways and means, 70
Window dressing, 95
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