indexed so that it may be of convenient reference to all those who 
have occasion to refer to it. 
This volume is, of course, in no sense a plea for national banks as 
differentiated from the other types of banking institutions which 
make up the nation’s banking system. But as the largest bank in the 
country, a member of the National Banking System for sixty years 
and of the Federal Reserve System since its inauguration, The 
National City Bank of New York accepts with pleasure the oppor- 
tunity to give to other banks and to individuals specific, useful and 
reliable information regarding various phases of national banking, 
especially as they refer to the Federal Reserve Act.