Excerpt from The Philadelphia National Bank: A Century's Record, 1803-1903 The Maryland Bank at Baltimore was chartered February 7, 1790. Congress chartered the first Bank of the United States, located in Philadelphia, in February, 1791, the charter running twenty years, and for this institution, a few years later, was erected the building on Third Street, south of Chestnut Street, now owned by the Girard Estate and occupied by the Girard National Bank. When this first United States Bank charter expired in 1811, Congress declined to renew it. In 1791 the entire revenues of all the custom houses of the country (the largest being at Philadelphia) were but and this was the chief support of the Government. 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.