IMPORTANT BANKING DOCUMENTS,

FOR THE USE OF
BANK OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, CLERKS, &c.,

Contained in the Current volume of the Bankers' Magazine, July, 1854—June, 155.

1. Historical Review of Banking in Massachusetts, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. 2. Annual Report of the Bank Commissioners of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois.

RAILROADS.—1. Frauds on Railroad Companies, with Suggestions for the Prevention of Fraudulent Issues of Stock. 2. Opinions of C. P. Kirkland, W. Curtis Goyes, N. C. Bronson, Charles O'Conor, Daniel Lord, on the Illegal Transfer of Shares. [These opinions upon "Agency" apply as well to Bank Shares as to others.] 3. British Railroads. 4. Stock of New and Prominent Railroads of the West.

THE USURY LAWS.—1. Usury in the Olden Times. 2. Remarks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Repeal of. 3. Operation of the Usury Laws in the United States. 4. Report of the New-York Chamber of Commerce. 5. Chronological Sketch of the Changes in the Usury Laws from 505 B. C. to A. D. 1854. 6. Report of the New-York State Senate Committee on the Usury Laws. 7. Debate in the House of Lords. 8. Usury Laws of each State.

CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES.—1. Summary of the Public Debt of each. 2. Sacramento City. 3. Bank Capital of each.

STATE FINANCES.—1. Iowa. 2. Pennsylvania. 3. Illinois. 4. Louisiana. 5. California. 6. North Carolina. 7. Texas. 8. Indiana. 9. Wisconsin. 10. Michigan. 11. Virginia. CASHIERS IN THE UNITED STATES.—Alphabetical List of.

FRAUDULENT BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—Full Report of the Case of Ellis & Morton vs. Ohio Life and Trust Company; with Summary of English and American Cases.

SAVINGS BANKS.—1. New-York City: origin of each; amount on deposit; investment of funds; amount on bond and mortgage. 2. Massachusetts. 3. Connecticut.
NOTICE OF PROTEST.—Approved Forms of.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—1. Analysis of its Banking Department—Issue Department—Bullion Operations. 2. Operations of 1845-1754. Dividends and Stock of 1697-1-54. 4. Remarks on the new Notes of the.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.—Operations of the, for the past six years.

COINS, COINAGE, AND BULLION.—Review of the Coinage of the whole World for each year, 1:43-1. 53. 2. Report on Decimal Coinage for Great Britain. 3. Description of the San Francisco Mint. 4. The United States Assay Office in New-York. 5. Relative Value of Foreign Coins. 6. Special Report of Professor Wilson on the New-York Industrial Exhibition. 7. The Relative Value of Gold and Silver, by Dr. Michelsen. 8. Uses and Consumption of Gold and Silver in the Arts.

LIFE INSURANCE.—1. Parliamentary Inquiry on the Subject of Life Insurance Associations. 2. Comparative Value of Savings Banks and Life Insurance Companies.

DEBT AND CREDIT IN FRANCE.—Restriction of Credit in France; Billets de Banque; Bill Brokers in Paris; Imprisonment for Debt in Paris and London.

BANK STATISTICS.—1. New-York State, New-York City, Massachusetts, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Wisconsin, New-Orleans, New-Jersey. 2. Annual Report of the Treasury on the Banks of the United States. 3. Bank Capital of every Town and City in the United States.

EUROPEAN STATES.—1. Statistics and Finances of Russia. 2. Public Debt of Spain. 3. Great Britain. 4. France. 5. Turkey. 6. New French Loan.

LEGAL MISCELLANY.—Recent Cases in reference to. 1. Notice of Protest. 2. Agency. 3. Bank-Notes; Insolvency. 4. Promissory Notes. 5. Law of Set Off; Bank Deposits. 6. Redemption of Bank Bills. 7. Notice of Protest where there are two Post-Offices in one Town. 8. Defective Notice. 9. Circulation of Foreign Bank-Notes. 10. Mortgage; Insolvency. 11. Bank Balances. 12. North American Trust and Banking Company. 13. Liability of Banks for Stolen Notes.

ON THE RELATIONS OF LABOR AND CAPITAL.—1. Jealousy of Capital. 2. Poverty versus Wealth. 3. Capital and Savings. 4. Annual Savings of the Laboring Classes. 5. Savings Banks; their Utility. 6. Community of Property. 7. Redress for the Evils of Poverty. 8. Waste of Capital. 9. Instruction of the Working Classes. 10. The Future.—Edinburgh Review.

FOREIGN BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—New Stamp Tax in Great Britain.

BANKING IN LONDON.—1. Review of the Joint Stock Banks of—Capital—Deposits—Guarantee Fund of each. 2. Annual Report of the London and Westminster Banks.

NEW BANKING LAWS.—1. Connecticut. 2. New-Hampshire. 3. Georgia. 4. Ohio.

THE STOCK EXCHANGE.—History and Description of, with Technical Terms used.

FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES.—1. Annual Treasury Report. 2. Revenue, Debt, Tonnage, each year, 170-1. 54. 3. Operations of the Sub-Treasury for the first nine years.

BANK-NOTE ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.—1. New System proposed as a Substitute for Mr. Perkins'. 2. Remarks on the new Counterfeits in the United States. 3. Remarks on Surface Printing as now used by the Bank of England. 4. Second Annual Report of the Association for the Suppression of Counterfeiting.

J. SMITH HOMANS, 162 Pearl Street, N. Y.