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Volume 2 - ElectricCanadian.com

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466 HISTORY OF THE BANKthey were required to send to the Minister of Finance annuallists of unclaimed balances and of dividends unpaid for overfive years. It was expressly enacted that the liability of a bankfor the payment of deposits or dividends should continueindefinitely, notwithstanding the statute of limitations or anyother law relating to the prescription of debt; and in pursuanceof this, provision was made, in the event of winding up,for the transfer to the Government of Canada, after a certainlapse of time, of a bank's liability for notes issued, depositsand dividends. A bank is prohibited from charging any discountor <strong>com</strong>mission for cashing an official cheque of theGovernment of Canada, whether drawn on itself or on anotherbank. The changes made in the monthly returns to theGovernment were in the direction of simplicity and consistencyrather than of added <strong>com</strong>plexity. The number of headingswas reduced by the omission of some of those whichwere least important from the point of view of revealing thecondition of the affairs of a bank. Thus the subdivisions ofcurrent loans other than those to the Dominion and ProvincialGovernments were abolished. A new item of informationcalled for was the greatest amount of notes in circulationat any time during the month. This was a corollary of thepenalties for over-issue.During this revision the value of constant and close cooperationbetween the representatives of the various banks,the need for which, as already mentioned, 1 had been felt asearly as 1868, was so clearly demonstrated, that steps wereshortly afterwards taken to form a permanent organization ofthe banks under the name of the "Canadian Bankers'Association." Ten years later, in 1900, this Association wasincorporated by Parliament, and given power to establish and,subject to the approval of the Dominion Treasury Board, toregulate the operations of clearing-houses.In the revision ofthe Bank Act which took place during the same year, theGovernment took a new and far-reaching departure when it'Seepages 116 and 441.

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