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A cashier of one of the Boston banks writes us as follows : 

 " I am aware that a different usage has prevailed with the banks of 

 New York and other cities, but I have always considered that they as- 

 sumed a great responsibility, as it is well known that our courts never 

 allow usage to take the place of an established principle of law, or to be 

 pleaded as an excuse for its infraction." 



The following articles in this Magazine are published in no other 

 periodical in this country, and claim the attention of all bank officers : 



1. Chief Justice Taney, Supreme Court United States, on 



Transfers of Stock by Executors. .... Vol. III. 



2. Chancellor Johnson of Maryland, on Transfers of Bank 



Stock, 



" IV. 



" IV. 



3. The Law of Grace on Sight Bills, . " III. 



4. Late cases in the highest Courts of England, and in the 



Supreme Court of New York and Massachusetts, as 

 to Notice of Protest, ...... 



5. Baron Humboldt's last Essay on the Production and 



Supply of Precious Metals, (translated for this work,) " HI. 



6. Opinions of Joshua Bates, Adam Hodgson, Horsley 



Palmer, and Messrs. Tooke, Gurnoy, Turner, Morris 

 and Pease, upon the Commercial Crisis and the Bank 

 of England, . 



« III 



« III. 



7. Tables of Foreign Exchange for each month since 1822, " M- 



8. Historical Sketches of the Merchants' Bank in New 



York, Manhattan Bank, Bank of North America, " III. 



9. Treatise on Banking; by A. B. Johnson, Esq., of Utica, " HI. 

 10. List of all the Banks in England, Ireland and Scotland, 



and the Circulation of each, " Hi- 



ll. Improvements in Bank Note Paper, for the prevention 



of forgery, . . , 



12. Weights and Measures of all Nations, as compared with 



those of the United States, " In- 

 complete copies on hand of Volume III, price S3, comprising twelve 

 Nos., from July, 1848, to June, 1849, inclusive, 772 pages. The vol- 

 ume can be transmitted per mail to any distance within the United 

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J. SMITH HOMANS, 

 Editor Bankers' 9 Magazine, Baltimore, Md. 



