Research


Scope and Content Note

The series includes a wide variety of records relating to bank administration, operations, and accounting. The records document the state's activist supervision of banks under the Safety Fund Act, passed in the aftermath of the Panic of 1837. Included are disciplinary letters; files on sealing and burning of notes; diaries of financial transactions; fund ledgers, daybooks, and blotters; certificates of securities; register's receipts of impressions; powers of attorney; transfer books; savings bank expense books; certificates of association of banks of deposit and discount; records of certificates of organization and authorization of private banks, bankers, brokers, and credit unions; journals; registers of receipt and disposal of notes; ledgers of notes in circulation; security registers; journals of bank notes, stocks, and bonds; and ledgers for general and miscellaneous accounts.