P. S. The above exhibits the balance at the account of each Director for the whole time called for under your interrogatory; and in addition, shows the present liability of each director, as both payer and endorser, and which is now about as great, both individually and in the aggregate, as at any previous time, and press of business is our paology for not complying fully with the interrogatory. JOHN J. LOWRY, President. W. C. BOON, Cashier. Statement No. 4. BRANCH BANK, STATE OF MISSOURI, Fayette, October 28th, 1844. GENTLEMEN :-The indebtedness of the members of the 13th General A sembly, to this branch is so small that we deem it unnecessary to furnish you: tabufar statement of it; the following will, in round amounts, embrace all, viz William Fort, as payer, $130, as endorser, $2,200. Dewitt C, Ballou, as endorser, $400, or near it. C. F. Jackson, as payer, $1,210, as endorser, $800. John Brown, as payer, $965, as endorser, $200. Executive officers, nothing. Respectfully your ob't serv'ts, JOHN J. LOWRY, President. To Messrs. FORT, CARSON, and BAY, Committee &c. Statement No. 5. Expense Account of the Branch of the Bank of the State of Missouri at Fayette. STATEMENT of the Nett profits of Fayette Branch. To Messrs. FORT, CARSON, and BAY, Committee, &c. } GENTLEMEN :-Herewith we hand you a statement of the nett profits of this Branch, for the following years, viz, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, and for nine months and twenty-five days of the year 1844. The Branch not having received but a small part of its capital until the early part of 1838, we do not include five months of 1837, in which it was in operation. STATEMENT. Annual Dividends of the Fayette Branch, for the following years, passed to the credit of the Parent Bank. For the year 1838, For 9 months and 25 days 1844. Making 58 per cent. for six years and three-fourths, or an aggregate nett interest of $66,588 24 on a capital of $109,000, for the first five and a half years, and of $120,058 84 for the last sixteen months. P. S. The profits of this branch, until the last two years, have been derivprincipally from loans upon the logal discount line; about half the profits for the last two years, have been derived from its oprerations in domestic and foreign exchanges. This branch, up to the first of January, 1843, had never accumulated exchange upon either the East or South, but has since that time, accumulated and drawn for over three hundred thousand dollars on New York, beside large amounts upon Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. JOHN J. LOWRY, President. |