Excerpt from Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D. C, Vol. 8 When the charter to the Bank of Alexandria was granted in 17 92, the population of the United States was less than The banking history of our country was in its infancy. The first bank of discount and deposit in the United States was organized in 1781. The institutions engaged in banking in 1792 were only five or six in number. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.