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388 given, but according to the clerks' statement are burnt, but for which the city notwithstanding paid interest annually to the bank.

That it is nevertheless obvious, that the city is responsible for this sum as well as for the whole, as it ought to be considered with respect to it, not only as guarantee, but as actual debtor, to the bank.

That moreover, among other things in the said bank, there has been found in substance all the specie for which accountable receipts have been given, agreeable to the list made out and delivered to the committee of commerce and marine by the cashiers of the bank, and which can, in consequence, be at all times drawn out by the holders of the said receipts, in exchange for them, when it shall please them so to do.

The aforesaid provisional representatives have, therefore, not only taken the requisite and most efficacious measures, that henceforward there shall not be delivered from, nor advanced by, the said bank, contrary to its original institution, any specie whatsoever, by any authority, either as a loan or in any other illegal manner; but also that the said bonds, lodged in the said bank as securities, as aforesaid, shall be liquidated as soon as possible; and generally