Excerpt from Report of the Investigating Committee of the Bank of Mutual Redemption: Appointed by the Stockholders at Their Annual Meeting October 31st, 1862Your committee, appointed at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Mutual Redemption, October 31, 1862, to report to this adjourned meeting any facts they deem necessary, and also a list of names for officers, respectfully report, that they entered upon the work with a sole desire to serve the interests of the Banks they represented. In taking the testimony of the officers of the bank, upon the matters under examination, they have endeavored to reconcile slight differences of statement, and present the substance, as fairly and clearly as possible. Where an absolute, and irreconcilable difference of statement occurs, they have so stated, generally giving their own views of the probable correctness of one, or the other statement. They have endeavored to act justly, and to arrive at conclusions, from a consideration of the facts, or supposed facts presented to them, only. Representing six different States, and entering upon the work with Views of the previous conduct of the bank widely dissimilar, they deem it no less remarkable than satisfactory that their conclusions upon every subject have nearly exactly coincided, and that every vote taken, or expression of Opinion made, has been entirely unanimous from the beginning.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.