Excerpt from Handbook for Bank Officers In preparing this (the third) edition of this work, some important additions have been made, the chief of which are two new chapters on the powers and duties of the President and Cashier, respectively. Though treating specially of the law and practice governing National banks, the volume, as it now stands, will be found valuable and useful to the officers of any commercial bank, for the reason that the National banking system embodies the very best features of commercial banking, as is conclusively shown by the wonderful success, growth and strength attained by it in a period of about twenty-five years. Perhaps the best proof of the merit of the work is the fact that it has reached a third edition in sixteen months time, a result largely owing to the commendation kindly expressed by some of the most prominent and successful bankers in all sections of the country. 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.