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claims were of long standing, the process would have run against the Receirers. and so you will see, sir, that directory is no where recognised" ill the act, except to turn over the assets of the Bank. They were only the repositors,-the safe keepers of these assets until the Receivers were quali- ned 10 take charge of them, when they should have turned over the whole of them without partitioning about four or five thous- and dollars of the money among themselves and the Ex-President

 Their only right,-their only duty. sir. was 10 do this, and in doing more, as is con tended in the Report, and as will ever nain- tam they transcended that right, and violated that duty

 Major Field, who was one of the sharers of thlsBoard's fayors, argues with the Board. that the only privilege of which they were divested untli they hadtuned over the assets ofthe Bank to theReeelvers, was that ofloanng money, or discountlng individual paper Then sir, they were as competent to appoint as to pay an agent; and if Mr Field was sincere i'll this opinion, why did he apply to the Legislature for thls mission? Perhaps sir, he had more confidence Tn the ilberality of the Legisla- ture than the Bank Directory, as the Con- mttee have shown, of which he has long been aware, that the latter was parsimoni- ous, and even niggardly in awarding com pensatlon 10 its officers and agents; particular ly sir to those who were employed to collect or Sccare debts due tbe Baak.

 l am unable to say more. Sir. The Com mlttee in this investigation, and Report have hardly crossed the threshold of the Banks lniqultles. To have '' sounded all the depths and shoals" of its abuses and peculations 1; to have explored the entire field of its cor ruption,s, and gathered together and furnished to this House every instance of favoritism, injustice, violated faith, and breach of law, perpetrated by those who have had entrus- ted to them it's direction and control, since 1t was first established until the present day, would have filled that Journal on the Speak er's table.