| Summary: | "The following resolution of your honorable body was received on the 23d instant. Resolved, That the board of Bank Commissioners be requested to inquire whether the Bank of Zanesville, and also the Bank of Muskingum, have not each been engaged in the transportation of specie, since the first of September last, to the city of Philadelphia and other eastern cities, for the purpose of speculation, by the sale of the same at a profit -- and that, for that purpose, the said board have authority to send for persons and papers, if necessary. In furnishing the information required by the resolution, we would respectfully state, that one of the board of bank commissioners proceeded to an investigation of the matter referred to. The result of that investigation establishes the fact, that the bank of Zanesville has, since the first of September last, transported to Philadelphia, $20,780 26, in gold and silver coin; and that the bank of Muskingum has, since the same period, transported to the same city $10,000, in silver coin, for the purpose of selling the same at a profit."--Page 3.
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