Excerpt from A History of the Bank of New York, 1784-1884: Compiled From Official Records and Other Sources at the Request of the Directors Increase of the Capital of the Bank by Legislative Enactment authorizing Subscriptions for the Stock by Hamilton and Union Colleges in 1813 - Financial Aid rendered the Government during the War of 1812 - Suspension of Specie Payments in 1814 - Condition of the Bank of New York at the Time Action of the Secretary of the Treasury respecting Treasury Notes - Efforts to resume Specie Payments - Final Resumption in 1817 Loan to the North River Steamboat Company - Temporary Removal of the Bank to Greenwich in 1822 - Loan of effected in London in 1822 Payment of Amount due the State in 182 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.