specie guarantied and secured to them as above; and they allowed the subscription to be made;-after which a certificate of deposite of the Bank of Wisconsin, for specie, was offered and taken upon the same conditions.

Q. 7. Was sixty days' notice by publication in some newspaper printed in the county of Iowa, requiring the payment of another instalment; and if so, was any portion of said instalment paid by any of the stockholders at the time and place required. A.-There was a notice published at Mineral Point, calling for four instalments of ten per cent. each on four several days; and a notice for the election of directors appointed on the same day that the second instalment was to have been paid. The commissioners met on the day appointed; and, acting as directors, decided that John Atchison and Garret V. Dennison were no longer commissioners or directors, as they had not subscribed for stock; whereupon they proceeded to choose by ballot two others, James D. Doty and Henry Stringham. The board then allowed the stockholders to proceed to elect directors, upon which election the duties of the commissioners ceased. Up to this time, which was about four o'clock, P. M. of the day for the receipt of the second instalment, no part of the same had been paid.

Q. 9. Did the commissioners make a deposite in any bank of the first instalment paid in; and if so, in what bank? A.-No. In lieu of the funds by them received, they authorized Mr. James Morrison to take a certificate of deposite of the Bank of Wisconsin, drawn in favour of James D. Doty, for specie, and assigned by said Doty with security, that the funds should be brought to Mineral Point, at the time the second instalment should be made payable; which funds were never placed in the hands of the commissioners, although they might have been in the hands of Mr. Morrison.

Q. 10. If the first instalment was deposited in any bank, did the commissioners take a certificate of special deposite. A.The answer to question 9 is the reply to this question.

WILLIAM S. HAMILTON.

Personally before me appeared Wil

Joe Davies countyliam S. Hamilton, who did depose and

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say, that he did subscribe the foregoing, and that the answers contain the truth, to the best of his knowledge and recollection. SAMUEL SMOKER, J. P.

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1. Are you a director of the Mineral Point Bank, and if so when were you elected?

2. What amount of capital stock is now paid in?

3. After the stock was all subscribed and the first instalment paid, was public notice given by the acting directors, according to the charter, requiring the payment of other instalments; and if so, were they paid in according to the requisition so made? 4. In whose possession is the money now paid in, and is it in specie?

To E. BRIGHAM, ESQ.

Sir-In the performance of duties assigned to us by a resolution of the House of Representatives, of Wisconsin territory, of the 16th inst., we send you the within interrogatories concerning the Bank of Mineral Point, to which your answer in writing, under oath or affirmation, is respectfully solicited. Yours, &c. WM. B. SHELDON, Chairman. P. H. ENGLE,

CHAS. C. SHOLES.

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Burlington, November 23, 1837.

To the Hon. the committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to investigate the condition and doings of the banks.

Gentlemen-I have received your note of this day, and in re

ply to your first inquiry, I have the honour to state that I was, on the first Monday in July last, elected a director in the bank of Mineral Point, and qualified as such. In reply to the second, third, and fourth interrogatories, I beg leave to refer the Hon. committee to the president and cashier of said bank.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. BRIGHAM.

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QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE BANK OF
WISCONSIN.

1. What amount of capital has been actually paid in?
2. What is the amount of your deposites?

3. What are the profits on hand?

4. What is the amount of your bills in circulation?

5. Do your bills in circulation purport to be payable on demand, or otherwise?

6. What is the amount of debts due you from all other persons or corporations?

7. What is the amount of specie in bank?

8. What is the amount of all bills of other banks in your possession?

9. What is the kind of funds with which your discounts have been made? meaning, have your discounts been made in specie, in bills of other banks, or in bills of your own? and if in bills of your own, were they payable at sight, or after date?

10. What is the amount of stock you now hold in other banks?

11. What is the amount of your real estate?

12. Have you, at any time, refused the payment of specie for your bills, when presented and demanded at your counter? 13. Is any part of the specie, returned by you in bank, (in answer to the 7th query,) special deposites, and if so, how much?

To the President or Cashier of the Bank of Wisconsin:

SIR-We hereby enclose you a certified copy of a resolution passed by the House of Representatives of Wisconsin territory, and also a copy of interrogatories founded thereon, to which your answers in writing, under oath or affirmation, are respectfully requested.

W. B. SHELDON, Chairman.

P. H. ENGLE,

CHAS. C. SHOLES.

H.

To the Hon. W. B. SHELDON, chairman of the committee to investigate the different banks in the territory.

SIR-Your communication was received this evening. My answers to your questions will be considered by you as bearing date the 19th day of October last, which is the day that I left the village of Green Bay.. I am not aware of any material change being likely to occur since that time.

No. 1. Capital actually paid in, $19,625.

2. Amount of deposites, $37,873 31;-certificates of deposites, $2,312 77.

3. Profits on hand, $788 16.

4. Amount of bills in circulation, $139,363.

5. All the notes of this bank in circulation now, or which they have ever issued, are payable on demand.

6. Amount of debts due this bank, which are payable at sight by other banks, $45,908 52; amount of debts due this bank from individuals, $95,355 70.

7. Amount of specie in bank, $41,376 38.

8. Amount of other bank notes on hand, $15,255.

9. Discounts have only been made with notes payable on demand. In cases where persons have wanted the money to send to remote points, where the notes of the Wisconsin Bank would

not be current, the notes of the banks most convenient for the uses of the individual, have been given. Generally, discounts are made with Wisconsin paper.

10. The bank owns no stock in other banks.

11. Real estate and bank furniture, $2,229 88.

12. I know of no demand being made upon this bank for specie that has not been paid. The calls upon the bank for specie have been small-only for the purpose of making change; and the receipts of the bank in specie have increased since the general suspension of specie payments by the other banks.

13. The specie reported in answer to the 7th question, is all the property of the Bank of Wisconsin.

HENRY STRINGHAM, Cashier.

Territory of Wisconsin, county of Des Moines, ss.

On the 20th day of November, 1837, personally appeared before me Henry Stringham, whose signature is hereunto affixed, who made oath that the above statement is true, to his certain knowledge and belief.

Given under my hand the day above written.

DAVID IRVIN.

Ass. Judge Sup. Court, Wisconsin territory.

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QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE BANK OF

MILWAUKEE.

1. Are you a commissioner to receive subscriptions to the Bank of Milwaukee?

2. Have books been opened according to the forms prescribed in the charter to receive subscriptions for said bank?

3. What amount of stock has been subscribed for, and what amount of money paid in?