| Banks and banking - 1845 - 900 pages
...her Majesty, intituled " An Act to regulate the issue of Bank notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain privileges for a limited period, it was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act, no person other than a Banker, who, on... | |
| Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1854 - 418 pages
...was passed an Act of Parliament " to regulate the issue of bank notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain privileges for a limited period."t The charges against the country circulation had been, that it was unsafe, excessive, and... | |
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