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COSAAI EMIR BARTLETT-EDITOR.
JTfce Democrat
IS PUBLISHED EVERV WEEK IN
COLI’.aUIS, GEOKGI A,
at Three Dollars per annum, if paid in ad
vance, or Four Dollars , at the end of the
year. It is expected that‘nll application for
subscription from a distance, trill be accom
panied with the money.
Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable
rates Hales of land and negroes, by adminis
trators, executors or guardians, are required by
law tube field on the first 'uesdav in the month,
between the hours of ll* o’clock mthe forenoon
3 in the afternoon, at the court house of the
County in which the property is situated Notice
of these sales must be given in a public Gazelle
sixty days previous to the day of sale
Notice of the sale <#*' personal property mm-t
be giver- in a like manner forty days previous to
he day of sale,
Notice to debtors & creditorsof an estate must
be published forty days.
Noiice that all application will be made to the
court of ordinary for leave to sell land must be
published four months.
CT’Getters on business must be Post paid to
insure attention.
,J .. —hi
9TOUR!!iE & VS*
HAT
31 an ufacturers ,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
respectfully inform the pub
lic that they have on hand, and will keep const
antUy for sale, at whole sale ard retail a goner
el and extensive assortment of HATS , compri
sing all the various fashions and qualities, and
On as favorable terms as can bo purchased at a
oy market in the United Status.
Strict attention will be given to all orders
from the country
Orders for Hats left with Edward J Harden,
6eq. at Appalachicola, will be promptly attend
Od to.
RANTED TO PURCHASE.
Hatting furs of all kinds, for which cash and a
lib era! price will be given, delivered either at
Columbus or at Appafanhioela.
C'llvmbus Aua. 27, 1831.
JUST received bv Steam-Boat Georgian, 1
general assortment < f
J.IP.LVz WARE.
Copper and Zinc Kettles,
Pewter Busins and Plates,
Sheet Copper,
do Lead,
do Zinc,
do Russia Iron,
do. Brass,
Hoop Iron,
Also on hand, a general assortment of
TIN-WARE,
All of which will be sold at the lowest price,
wholesale and retail
ITT Cash paid for OLD PKWTF.R
HERVEY HALL.
Cohimhus, Dec. 17,1831
LAW MOTHOI2.
fWAIIE copartnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned Attorneys at
Law, is this day diisolved by mutual consent.
Each will continue to reside at Carrollton, A
practice separately in the several counties corn
no mg ihc ; haUahoochee circuit; and m Chero
kee county of the Western Circuit.
E. D. McKinley,
inarch 3. — 3 in. Isaiah Paschal.
JOINER’S TOOLS
OF a superior qnality & well assorted, just
opening LA'WHON V HOWELL. I
april2l, 1832.
SHOE STORE.
E. WELLS, St CO. Have
S I removed to the Brick Building
next do* r above \t ui I*. Har
groves on Bread street, where
they offer for sale on r«asona
terms Boots and Shoes of every description, of
their owit manufacture, consisting of
200 P a ’ r Gentlemen’s Boots,
300 do. Calfskin shoes, high & tow quarters,
JOO do. Calfskin Pumps,
75 do. Buckskin Shoes,
50 do. Sealskin Pumps,
200 do. Brogans,
300 do. Coarse Shoes,
TIDIES PRUNELLO HOOTS v SHOES of
vaiiotis kinds.
Do. Morocco Shoes,
Do. Sealskin do.
Do Calfskin do.
Leather walking shoes and Bottees,
Misses and Childrens B iots and Shoes of ev
ery description.
N. B All work of their own Manufacture
Warranted not to rip.
July 2, 1831 —ly
CLOTHS.
SUPERFINE blue,«iack, claret, olive, brown,
bottle and invisible green cloths Purclia
ters are requested to call and look through,
may 5. Lawhon & Howel!.
FOR SALF,
A N ELEGANT COACH, made to order in
J\ Newark, and perhaps abetter piece of work
isannot be found
Also, a PIANO FORTE of superior tone and
Workmanship. THOMAS SCATTER
Vansville, Crawford co. May 12, 1831.
~~ NOTICE.
IFORVVARN all persons from trading for a
certain note of hand given by me to a Mr
Font, sometime in the la ■' of March or first of
April. 4- due about the 24th of December,
for tivonty five dollars. As the consi-i.-ra' ion
fiir which said noto was given has failed, I, do
not intend to pav it unless coinp-dled by law.
inuy 12, 1832. Wilder Phillip*.
JUST PI BLISHEd
And for taU at thr Columbus Hook Stare,
THE LOST VIRGIN OF THE SOUTH;
AN Historical Novel, connected with the In
dian War nf thn South, in the year < I*o3,
13, |4 ind ISV—and Gin Jackson, now Presi
dent of tbs United Mums
IIY IWX vr 'HO CJSSf-VDCH.
A few cor,c4 reman in* n hand
J 9, K, U. NoE I'UN, Lmed ifreet
DESEIOORA^.
Insurance.
V*pilE Augusta Insurance and Bauk
™ h,g Company will insure Produce and Vlnr
ihandise against the dangers of River Naviga
tion on good steam boats and other river craft,
and upon good vessels from Apalachico'a to New
Orleans or theatlantic cities.
They wi'l also take fire risks upon Buildings,
Merchandise and Produce
OKU W DILLINGHAM, Asrcnt.
JVEW SPRLYG
• aOOBi.
L. J. DAVIES Si. CO.
HAVE just received an elegant assortment
of Sprlny Good and at reduced prices.
Among them are the following articles, viz:
B 1 k Italian Lustring, sinchew <V sarsnett silks,
Gro de Nap and Gro de Swiss do
Colored Satins, stripe Pal:.larines,
Foulard Muslins, (uew style,)
French Belgian Ginghams,
do. do. Calicoes,
Jaconet cambric and cambric muslins,
Swiss, book, and mull muslins,
Lace capes ard c llais,
■ob’t Lace and thread edgings,
Muslin Bands, crape A ga ise caps,
Lmlti and linen cambric caps,
White pongee do
White and green gao.« veils,
Gent random mix* si k hose,
do. do cotton do
While and brown silk gl.'.'es,
Diir, -fable and Leghorn hats,
Belgium stripe do
English chip an,.l cottage do.
A complete assortment of milinary,
Bead bags and purses, silk do.
Brown A’ green parasols,
do. do Umbrellas.
Ceeil cloths Fustians, Tickings,
'Apron checks,'A c
AL (>—. V\ imesatiti beaver Hats,
Boots a’rd Shoes,
Hardware aid Cutlery,
Joiner's T< ois Ac.
may 5. JS32
ON CONSIGNMENT^
15 Bids S. F Flour, 2b’s cotton cards no. It)
18 ‘- N O. Mnasses, 1 -• Limits,
Ivt “ “ Sugar, 10‘‘Cider,
3 “ Prime Perk, 2 “ Lemon Syrup,
1 “ Cog Brandy, 1 “ lame Juice,
1 N Gtn. 1 cask cheese,
I “ Fresh Almonds i Firkins fresh butter,
I casks mol'i.-sw, 2 Ktits >ainion.
8 hhds nc • hacou, 100 bags fresh Garden
1 '* NO. Bugar, Seeds,
18 kegs fresh I ard, 12 OdO Araer. Sugars,
1-4 cask ' laret wine,
For sale by TARVER A SQUIRE
Marc 1 ' 10
MEDICAL BOOKS.
J ’HE subscribe! lin ’ rur.u-.-e,: at the Co
* lumbus B >ok u. th ; f .-lowing books:
Smith on Fever, ''•iiiiw' rnr,
Honnen's Military Sur bc-r Lectures,
gerv, Taicrniir s Surgery,
Ma uevin’s Brands. ' a., ih u oil purgatives,
Ebelie's practice of Wislv’s Anatomy,
medicine. Turner’s Chemistry,
Levees n children, Dental Surgery,
Mo o i idwifery, Beck’s Medical Juris-
Cooper’s Surgery, piudecce,
Do Lceti’ic®,
Togot he i with a great variety of Books and
other articles to r.umeious to particularise
E. 8. Norton.
ma"ch 21 Broad street
COLUMBUS BOOK SfORE.
Es HAVE jm received at. my Store the follow
JLing i.ew and other interesting publica
tions:
Eugene Aram a novel by the author of Pelham
The Foisaken, a title 2 vela.
The Polish ('hiefs an historical romance 2 vole
Family Library No. 2ft Court and Camp of Bo
naoar'.e.
Parly’s • ’oturabus,
Universal Songster*
Flute lnstructers,
Rowlett’s Interest Tables;
voleridge, Shelly and Keat’s works,
Sc itf's Napole ui 3 vols,
Cook’s Morgagni 2 vols,
Devices Midwifery
Ebe rle’s Practice, of Medicino 2 vo§l
Turner’s * hemistry
Bichats Anatomy of Physiology,
Ainsworth’s Dictionary,
Methodist Hymn Books (pockot edition)
Prayer Books (do.)
Sard and Inkstands,
P'-t Folios Visiting Cards Blank Card 3 A c
Together with a great variety of books and fan
cy articles too numerous to particularize
April 20. E.B. NORTON.
Shorter, tarver & co.
HAVE received by late arrivals the follow
ing Goods on consignment which they
offer on favourable terms.
55 bbts. Choice Cider,
30 Boxes Newark Pippin do.
70 bbis. Cincinnati Whiskey,
60 “ N. O. Molasses,
12 hhds. Bacon,
20 bbls Tickled Pork,
10 Drums Figs,
6 Boxes riavanna Cigars,
Deal Pino, celebrated manufacture,
50 Boxe • Vogiuia A* N C. Tobacco,
5 quarter cask* Malmsey Wine,
150 Sacks ,-alt,
20 cases Lemon Syrrup & Lime Juice,
30 bbls Sugar,
Bartels liish Potatoes,
20 Sacks prime * rreen Coffee,
5 barrels genuine Monongabala Whiskey,
12 Pattern barshear ploughs, made by E.
Parson, Enfield Coh’t.
Cognac Brandy with a variety of other
Articles. may 19, 1832.
G. W. DILLINGHAM,
©ffers for Snlr,
100 barrels Pickled Pork,
200 sacks Liverpool and Turk’s Island salt,
50 bbls Western Whiskey,
100 do. N. Orleans Molasses,
250 do. various qualities sugar,
50 do. Mackerel,
■100(i ibs. blue gist Grindstones,
100 tables uppei Leather,
2o* 0 Ibs. sole I .rather,
SPlliblbs Bacon.
150 Bolts Kentucky Bagging,
Btl noils Bale Rope may ID.
DISSOLUTION
r| HIE connexion in busmeas under the firm of
I Tarver A Hqtiire was dissolved on tin* 24th
of Match last by thu death <d Mr. .Squire, the
biumr llu, concern will be closed by the
sit fits nber BEftJ. P- TARVfcK.
•>.#y 19, lb«
(OLOIBIB, (GAsISiITI ROAV* WAV2«,
SPRING & SUMMER
ffrAHE Subscribers lia»t j.tst finished
opening a fine stock of PA V‘< 1 w 1 1A
PLE,SPRING v SUMMLu DRY GOODS
Hats, fcjhoes. Maddlery, Crockery and Hard
ware, which are offered to the public at such
prices as they hope, will give san»laction. Their
friends are respectfully requested to cal* and
examine for themseives—The stock is compo
sed partly of the following articles:
Foulard Muslin Prints,
Main and figured muslins, of all descriptions,
Muslin robes, ginghams, fancy barage,
Calicoes at every variety,
Black, white and fancy color’d silks,
Black and white satin,
A fine and fashionable assortment of bonnets \
belt ribbons, cap and taffetas do.
Ladies and gent's beaver and hurseskin gloves
mid mitts,
Ladies and gent's random whole & half hose,
A case of fashionable Dunstable and Leghorn
bonnets,
A few dozen straw bonnets.
A good assortment ol silk, crape & barage fan
cy iidk'fs,
Ladies printed cambric hdk’fs.
Artificial ffttwers and straw oands,
l clogiie. Lavender, Rose Ai Florida water,
t llto of Roses,
50 whole <y naif pieces linen,
Table, nirdeye V Russia Diaper,
Brown and bleached linen anils,
Black uornbazioce, bombazetts, princettas, Ac.
Kouen cassimeres, Nankins A summer camblets
rheached cotton sattm drills, silk Velvets,
A good and new assortment of Mersaiiies Ves
t Jigs,
A ic.v pieces light <V fancy Valencia Vestings,
Ladies parasols and gentlemen's umbrellas,
Bl’k Italian cravats and linen collars,
Thread Cambric and long lav.n,
Ladies fancy silk and heed bags, fancy fans,
Brown and bleach’d shirtings ly sheetings,
C’olion Diaper,
Garment and furniture dimities,
A large and fine selection of shell, tuck and
side combs,
I piece black bombazine for ladies wear,
Bedtick, Osnaburghsand checks,
Furniture blue and scarlet ehecks,
3 4 and 4 4 plaids anrf stripes, strouds,
Buckram padding A-c
Sewing silk needles, pins, fyc Ac.
A large and fine Assortment of black ahd thab
hats and caps,
Lady’s, gentlemen’s and children’s shoes of all
kinds and q alities,
La.];, ’s ~ goiitlemon’s saddles, bridles ami mat
tingaics
CROCKERY.
China Liverpool brc. n A pink ware,
Common ware "of all kinds, tumblers 4> wine
i.a.-lors,
A large and full assortment of Hardware and
Cutlery, J iuer‘s To ils, Axes, Black
smith s Tools
Fine inlet and s-- i..g gl .sues,
Letter and cap paper, ink, quills and pencils
may 5. Lawiion At Howell.
~Ys . i'\ YiYYis ’
licit received u‘‘ IS team Boat Baltimore.
cog .arandy,
ainaica and American Hum,
Holland and American Gin,
Madeira 1
Tenerifte 1 ....
. . > Wines
Marsei.ie« f
Sweet J
Loaf and brown Sugar
Tobacco
A large assortment Joiner’s Tool
Blue Plains
Which he offers tor sale on his usual low
terms,
dec 10
Supply .
GROCEitiES AT APALACHICOLA.
gFYkHK. su isci iher has just received |,e Schro.
Mary, Hannah, Elisabeth and Kmeline,
from New Orleans, the following Groceries
20,000 lb. Bacon,
■SO bb! Perk,
50 o w bit-key,
15 hhds. prime N. O Sugar,
30 bbls Rum,
150 casks Nails (assorted.)
50 bbls Flour,
100 coils Bale Rope,
10 i pieces Kentucky Bagging,
30 coils Mani'la and Tared Rope,
6 pipes G Brandy & Holland Gin,
50 hags prime Havanna Coffee,
25,000 best Havanna Segars.
The above together with the stock on hand is
the best ever offered in this market, all of which
will bo sold low for C ash or approved paper
C E NORTON
\npalsi-h cola, (F!or.) May 10. 1832
NEW FIRM.
GENERAL AGENCY
AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
COLI MBIS GEORGIA;
I *• HE subscribers re«pecMiillv acquaint their
friends and the public, that they have for
med a connexion in the above business under the
name and style of
SHORTER, TARVER & CO.
They have commodious and extensive ar
rangements in progress for the reception and
storage tis produce, and will be prepared to
mike advances on the same while in store or
uuder shipment to New Orleans or New-York.
) E. 8 SHORTER,
Signed , BENJ P. TARVER.
) JAMES H. SHORTER,
may 19,1832
JUST PUBLISHED
And for sab at thr Columbus Hook Store,
THi: ?iO*T VIHOIN
OF THE SOUTH.
An historical novel of 327 pages I2um connected
with the Indian War of the South in the
year 1812-13 14 and 15, and Gen.
Jackson, now President of
the United States
RY DON PEDRO CALENDER
\LTIIOUGH there is a general wish to ob
tain this i nlireshnn wink it cannot he sent
in the bound form, to n• 1 who wish it; any per
son ran have a copy covered in colored paper,
s< nt to them bv mail, who will hand to any Pool
Master on> dollar to enclose to Virgil N Smith
TnltahaNi.ee oi the Post Master—ls tins Is dona
the work will he sent unaiodiateU The book
in abound form, can be lutd »i the Cofumbua-
Buok -tore, M. MM IT 11, Publisher.
May, 19
Frcmthe National Intelligencer.
DEBATE OS IHE BASK U. 8.
Owiug to the strong public anxiety to got
the substance of the Debate on the re
ception of the report of the Bank Coin
111,ttee, our Reporter prepared and we
published a hasty report of it. We
now insert the speech of Mr. M’Duiiie,
in that Debate, iu a more deliberately
revised forim
REMARKS OF MR. M’Dl FFIE
Mr. M’Duffie said he felt bound to make
one or tivo remarks in explanation of the
doctimes of the report, before tin ques
tion was taken. In justification oi tins
course lie would remark, that this tmcsli
gatiou of the Committee extended over u
great deal of ground, and touched upon a
great variety of topics, some of them high
ly important. The report, said he, is
voluminous, and the Committee did not
finally agree upon the form ift which it
should he presented until this morning.
The minority of the Committee has in
consequence had no opportunity of pre
senting their views in relation to some
interesting questions adverted to and dis
cussed in tins document. 1 shall be very
brief, however, in the remarks I propose
to make, and will barely state distinctly
the opinions of the minority, on the points
in which it dissents from the majority.^—
The attention of the Committee, it would
he recollected, hud been directed to a
gi'eat many specifications of abuse, by the
gentleman from eorgia, (Mr. Clayton)
when he first proposed this inquiry. Ma
ny of these laid turned out to be trivial, on
examination, and had been permitted to
pass a Wav without notice. The Com
mittee have selected in the report those
only, which, in the opinion of the majori
ty, deserved the particular attention ol
Congress. As to the charges of taking
usurious interest, and of using branch
drafts, t have nothing to remark, since
they have been fully discussed heretofore, 1
and Since no new disclosures have been
obtained iu relation to them. Some new
questions 111 relation to the violation of
the charter of the Rank are raised in the
report, which I feel bound to notice.
Some general calls had been made for in
formation from the Bank, which were not
answered before I left Philadelphia. No
explanations were asked from the Presi
dent, and the facts were eommumeaied
without comment. These facts, thus tin- i
explained the majority of the committee
have made the subject of speculative con
jecture, and have intimated doubts w fie til
er some of the practices disclo- and are not I
against the spirit of the chart, 1. 111 the j
absence of the explanations, w inch would !
no doubt haVl) been satisfactory, if it hail 1
been intimated that these practices w ere
deemed irregular by the committee, 1
present such views as now accur to nte.
The report refers, among others, to the
practice of buying and selling coin. In
relation to this practice the President did
give an explanation, s<J f.tr as it regarded
foreign coin. The report seems to imply i
that such dealing is not authorized hy the I
Charter. By the charter, the Rank is ex- ;
pressly authorized to deal in bullion
The opinion of eminent counsel was ob
tained hv the bank 011 tins question; and
it was, that forign coin was included un
der the term “bullion.” That, inded, is
the usual form in which bullion is receiv
ed in this country. Upon this mere legal
question, somewhat technical in its char
acter, 1 will make no filrthar remark. A
portion of the committee seem to enter
tain the opinion that the Rank has been
111 the habit of dealing in American coin,
without any authority froth the charter.
I believe they are mistaken in this matter
in point of fact.—The Hank was called
upon to state vvliat amount of coin it had
purchased and sold, and in presenting
the tabular statement, there is a column
stating the amount of American gold
bought and sold by the Rank; without
stating where purchased or where sold.
I have no doubt, though we obtained no
explanation from the Rank, that this is an
ordinary and unavoidable transaction, and
that it can, with no propriety of lan
guage, be denominated a dealing in A
nierican coin. Under the tender laws of
the U. States, the legal value of gold aiid
silver does uGt correspond with the in
trinsic value. By these laws an ounce of
gold is estimated to be worth only fifteen
ounces of Silver, whereas the real mark
et value of gold is sixteen times as great
as that of silver.
Now, no one will dispute the right of
the Rank to receive its debts ir. American
gold, and much le.fts its right, and indeed
its obligation, to allow for this gold what
it is really worth. Iu hke manner, no
one can dispute the right of the Rank to
pay its debts in American Gold, nor its
consequent right of receiving for this gold
what it is really worth. This surely can
not he denominated a dealing in coin, any
further than unavoidably results from ha
ving pecuniary transactions, an using
money. Tim very object for winch the
R'ank was created, was to deal in money,
•and it is a strange idea, that no such pow
icr exist , because it is not expressly given
in the charter. The power to deal in
hull ion was given expressly, only because
lit was not implied iu the very nature of
the transaction* of a money-dealing insti
tution. Another topic has been, v» ry un
expectedly to me, introduced into the r»>
voii. ir.%*
port A doubt seems to be entertained
By the majority of die Committee, as to
the right ol the Rank to sell the Govern*
incut stock, for which ft st • scribed, uoiler
the express authority of Congress. No
thing can be more self-evident, in my
judgment, than the right of the Ranh to
sell the stock w inch ft holds by the au
thority of law. The act which authori
zed the Rank to siilim nlie for this stock
necessarily conveyed the right to sell it;
as much as the authority to hold laid
conveys the right !o sell ft. It is essen
tially involved iu the elementary notion
oi property. line cannot be said to have
a property ui that w hich he cannot use as
he pleases, m ail inodes not prohibited by
law. To deny the right of the Rank to
sell its stock, would be to det.y it the right
01 making use of its own property. —The
principal value of government stock, as
a bank imcetirient, consists in its prompt
convertibility into money; and in this
view it is undoubtedly one of the most
sate and beneficial investments a Bank
can make. It furnishes u resource to
meet great enu rgencies iu thfe money
market, which 1 o other investment can
furnish. The condition ot the con t <r
cial community, and the Bunks, v oeld
have been utterly disastrous iti lc'2s, if
tin Rank had not sold the government
stocks for which it subscribed in lfi-J-1
Every one must remember tin- memorable
panic of produced by probably one
of the greatest revulsions in commerce the
world has ever witnessed. It limy now
he adverted to, as furnishing the most
triuhiphunt proof of the utility of the
Rank ol the United States, and of the
admirable state of soundness aiid securi
ty to which it has brought the banking
system of this country. At thru period it
s well known the most of the country
hanks in England failed, and the Bank
of England itself, an institution which Lao
stood unmoved for more than a century,
amidst political revolutions and commer
cial revulsions, was on the Very blink of
failure. One of the most philosophical
of the English writers on subjects ot tins
sort, states that it was a providential cir
cumstance alone that saved that Rank
from stopping payment. There can b«
iso higher eulogtum pronounced on thtt
management of the bank of the U. States,
than to state the fact, that during this pe
riod of general consternation and disaster
in the commercial world, not a single
Bank in the United States failed that had
been considered solvent. It was by the
sale of these government stocks, of which
a portion of the committee have thought
proper to complain, and this alone, that
the Bank of the United States was ena
i hied to throw some ten or fifteen millions
| of capital into the active operations of the
i Batik, in the form of discounts, and thus
save the Banks from failure, and the
commercial community from general
bankruptcy and rum.
Anti here I will advert to a circum
stance width deserves to be recorded, as
an illustration of the judicious aditjuti: na
tion of the Bank. The Chairman . ' e
Select Committee ashed the President o
state the circumstaces of a secret visit
made by him to New-York io Jb2s, and
whether it was not the object ol that vrsit
to obtain some aid for tin Bank to sate it
from failure; This question has not yet
been loimally answered by the Tresident,
lie stated that he visited IV. York on the
occasion referred to not lor the purpose
of obtaining aid, but of granting il. r l ho
distress of the country had reached a cri
sis, and the panic was so great that a sin
gle indication of fear, on the part of the
Bank, would probably have produced a
scene of general distress and bankruptcy.
If the Bank had attempted to save itself
froiii danger, by acojd and selfish policy,
and commenced curtailingjits discounts,
no one can calculate the consequences.
But the President pursued the very oppo
site policy, and the result proved that, in
periods of great danger, true moral cour
age is the best source of security. Instead
of obeying the instinct of fear, and order
ing a curtailment of discounts, the Presi
dent acted upon the higher impulse, and
directed the branch at New York to ex
tend its discounts freely, and relieve the
community. This was promptly done,
and as soon as it was ascertained, pi.biic
confidence was restored, and the panic
ceased. On such occasions as these, the
smallest circumstances often produces the
most imporunt results; and 1 have not a
doubt but that this hold and decissive, but
judicious proceeding, on the part of Mr.
Biddle, saved the country from the great?
est disasters. If the Bank had pursued
an opposite course; if regarding its own
security merely, it had held on to its gov
ernment stock, and curtailed its dis
counts, it would have deserved the uni
versal execration of the country.
The committee inquired concerning
donations to road companies, and the op
inion is expressed in the report, that such
donations were made without any author
ity in the charter. On the naked ques
tion of making gratuitous donations, I
should not hesitate to say that the Direc
tors would commit a great breach upon
the rights of the stockholders, if trey
made any such donations.
But the Bonk ow us a very large reul
estate, amounting to $ I ,’4)0,000, in the
immediate vicinity of certain Internal
Improvements in Ohm. *o which *wo
-mull contributions, amounting to #),OUB