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Cover of US Credit and Payments, 1800–1935, Part II

US Credit and Payments, 1800–1935, Part II

Edited by Ronnie J. Phillips

  • Published: 2013
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781848932951
  • Set ISBN: 9781848932951

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Domestic Exchanges


Volumes 4, 5 and 6 of this series focus on three interrelated aspects of the payments system: the domestic exchange markets, exchange or remittance charges for clearing of banknotes, drafts and cheques (referred to as non-par banking), and the evolution of central banking in the US. These are institutions whose function and operation were integral parts of the US payments system for more than a century but today are known only to financial historians. The purpose of these three volumes is to provide a foundation for understanding the historical place of these institutions and how they can provide insight into the respective roles of the government and the private sector in the future evolution of the payments system in the US and elsewhere.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Ronnie J. Phillips
  • Domestic Exchange and Rates of Collection by Bank U.S. and Its Branches ([1835])
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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      Domestic Exchange and Rates of Collection by Bank U.S. and Its Branches. Documents Submitted by Mr. Polk, from the Committee of Ways and Means, 10 January 1835. House of Representatives. 23d Congress, 2d session. Document No. 71. (Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton, [1835])
  • Report from the Secretary of the Treasury (1838)
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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      Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of the 26th February, 1838, Transmitting Statements of the Rates of Exchange and Prices of Bank Notes at Different Periods. United States. Dept. of the Treasury, 28 May 1838. 25th Congress, 2d session. US Senate (Washington, DC: [s.n.], 1838), pp. 1–141
  • A Treatise on the Currency and the Exchanges (1841)
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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      A Treatise on the Currency and the Exchanges, Proposing a Remedy for the Evils that Exist in Relation to them, by the Establishment of a General Exchange Office, which shall also be the Fiscal Agent of Government (New York City, NY: Hopkins & Jennings, 1841)
  • Annual Reports of the Comptroller of the Currency (1878, 1889, 1890 and 1892)
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
    • Annual Reports of the Comptroller of the Currency, Bureau of the US Treasury, 1878, pp. xxii–xxviii; 1889, pp. 9–13; 1890, pp. 14–22; and 1892, pp. 24–31
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        OCC Report 1878: No Saving to the Government by the Substitution of Treasury for National-Bank Notes
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        OCC Report 1889: Uniform Currency
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        OCC Report 1890: Domestic Exchanges
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        OCC Report 1892: Domestic Exchanges
  • The Methods and Machinery of Practical Banking (1891) By Claudius Buchanan Patten
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
    • The Methods and Machinery of Practical Banking (New York: Bradford Rhodes and Company, 1891), chs 15–16, pp. 234–63
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        XV
        A Chapter on Checks
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        XVI
        Notes and Drafts
  • Annual Reports of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1916, 1919)
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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      Annual Reports of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1916), pp. 9–14; (1919), pp. 40–7
  • Seasonal Variations in the Relative Demand for Money and Capital in the United States (1910) By E. W. Kemmerer
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
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      Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Seasonal Variations in the Relative Demand for Money and Capital in the United States: A Statistical Study (Washington, DC: National Monetary Commission, Government Printing Office, 1910), pp. 52–135
  • Domestic and Foreign Exchange ([c. 1919]) By E. L. Stewart Patterson
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      Overview By Ronnie J. Phillips
    • Domestic and Foreign Exchange (New York: Alexander Hamilton Institute, [c. 1919]), pp. 1–31
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        I
        Domestic Exchange
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        II
        Federal Reserve Bank Clearings
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        Operations of the Federal Reserve Interdistrict Clearing System, Oct. 16 To Nov. 15, 1916
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    Back Matter