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Resolved, That as the products of the labor Tory Burch Outlet of a na« tion are of national wealth, any corporation or institution which tends to substitute speculation instead of the proper and valuable fruits of this labor, must be pernicious, and ought to be abolished. Resolved, That any corporation not promotive of, or essential to, public good, ought not to exist. Resolved, That all Banks wherein individuals are interested, are moneyed monopolies, tending to make profit to those who do not labor, out of the means of those who do ; not tending to increase the means of industry, but to profit of those means unjustly : tending to tax the many for the benefit of the few: tending to create a privileged order, unuseful and pernicious to society: tending to destroy liberty, and create a power unfriendly to human happiness : tending inevitably to an unfeeling moneyed aristocracy, more to be deprecated than monarchy itself: tending to the destruction of the best hopes of man here and hereafter. Resolved, That it becomes the duty of the General Government, and of every individual State composing it, gradually if necessary, but ultimately and certainly, to abolish all Banks and moneyed monopolies, and if a paper medium is necessary, to substitute Tory Burch Outlet the impartial and disinterested medium of the credit of the nation or of the States."We know not if these resolutions were adopted.A committee of Congress, which had been appointed on the th of November to investigate the affairs of the United States' Bank, arrived in Philadelphia on the th of December, and left it on the th. • Some investigations were subsequently made of the state of the branches at Richmond and Washington; and on the th of January the committee made a report, giving an account of the operations of the Bank, and concluding with a declaration that it had violated its charter, in four particulars, viz: in Burberry Outlet purchasing two millions of public debt; in not requiring the stockholders to pay the second and third instalments of the stock in coin and funded debt; in paying dividends to stockholders who had not completed their instalments; and in suffering certain individuals, under pretext of their being attorneys for others, to give more votes for directors than the charter allowed.Mr. Spencer, the chairman of the committee, offered a resolution to cause a scire facias to be sued out, to call on the corporation of the United States' Bank, to show Tory Burch Outlet cause why its charter should not be forfeited, unless the Bank would consent to certain alterations in the act of incorporation. Mr. Trimble offered a resolution to cause a scire facias to be issued immediately.
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