[492] "Report of the Committee on the Currency of this [New York] State," Feb. 24, 1818, ib. 39-42; also partially reproduced in American History told by Contemporaries: Hart, iii, 441-45.
[493] "Report of Committee on the Currency," New York, supra, 184.
[494] Niles, xiv, 108.
[495] Jefferson to Yancey, Jan. 6, 1816, Works: Ford, xi, 494.
[496] Dewey, 144; and Sumner: Hist. Am. Currency, 75.
[497] Niles proposed a new bank to be called "The Ragbank of the Universe," main office at "Lottery-ville," and branches at "Hookstown," "Owl Creek," "Botany Bay," and "Twisters-burg." Directors were to be empowered also "to put offices on wheels, on ship-board, or in balloons"; stock to be "one thousand million of old shirts." (Niles, xiv, 227.)
[498] Dewey, 144.
[499] Ib. 153-54.
[500] Flint's Letters, E. W. T.: Thwaites, ix, 136; and see "Report of the Committee on the Currency," New York, supra, 184.
[501] Tyler: Tyler, i, 302; Niles, xi, 130.