Shares of capital stock at $15 each in the latter company were payable at the Bank of Manchester or at various other Vermont banks.

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

In order to induce subscription to the loan, the subscribers were to be incorporated by the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.

The Bank Charter Act 1844 began the process of restricting note issue to the Bank of England ; under this act, new banks were prohibited from issuing their own banknotes and existing note-issuing banks were not permitted to expand their issue.

Treasury notes had full legal tender status and were not convertible for gold through the Bank of England, replacing the gold coin in circulation to prevent a run on sterling and to enable raw material purchases for armament production.

The Bank of England and civil aviation were nationalised in 1946.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ( presently in the West Bank ).

The name and logo for EFTPOS in Australia were originally owned by the National Australia Bank and were trade marks from 1986 until 1991.

Some 400 Fatah members from the Gaza Strip were unable to attend the conference in Bethlehem after Hamas barred them from traveling to the West Bank.

Under the plan, all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip ( and four in the West Bank ) and the joint Israeli-Palestinian Erez Industrial Zone were dismantled with the removal of all 9, 000 Israeli settlers ( most of them in the Gush Katif settlement area in the Strip's southwest ) and military bases.

With the upgrading of the West Coast Demerara / East Bank Essequibo and the East Coast Demerara / West Coast Berbice roadways, the Government decided in mid 1970s to cease operating the railway services, which were being run at a loss.

In the mid-1980s, the World Bank reported that only 10, 000 new jobs were created annually ; the low rate of job creation resulted in 20, 000 people being added to the ranks of the unemployed every year.

Though most banks were sold to foreign investors, the largest bank, National Savings Bank ( OTP ), remained Hungarian-owned.

These reforms not only increased investor confidence, but they were also supported by the IMF and the World Bank, however, they were not welcome widely by the Hungarians ; Bokros broke the negative record of popularity: 9 % of the population wanted to see him in an " important political position " and only 4 % were convinced that the reforms would " improve the country's finances in a big way "

The 9 / 11 Commission Report has since confirmed that the bulk of the funds used to finance the assault were not sent through the hawala system, but rather by an official inter-bank wire transfer to a SunTrust Bank in Florida, where two of the conspirators had opened a personal account.

The Bank of England then continued to use wooden tally sticks until 1826 when they were taken out of circulation and stored in the Houses of Parliament until 1834, when the authorities decided that the tallies were no longer required and that they should be burned.

For example, the chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank is appointed by the President of the U. S. ( all nominees for this post are recommended by the owners of the Federal Reserve, as are all the board members ), his choice must be confirmed by the Congress, and he must appear and testify before congress twice a year.

In 1940 Askin was appointed manager of the Bank service department, which focused on public relations.

It is currently composed by a president, nominated by the Council of MInisters, several ex officio councilors — former prime ministers of Spain, directors or presidents of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, the Royal Academy of History, the Social and Economic Council, the Attorney General of the State, the Chief of Staff, the governor of the Bank of Spain, the Director of the Juridical Service of the State, and the presidents of the General Commission of Codification and Law — several permanent councilors, appointed by decree, and no more than ten elected councilors in addition to the Council's Secretary General.

He then appointed himself chairman of the Palestinian financial organization that was created by the World Bank to control most aid money towards helping the new Palestinian entity.

According to Salam Fayyad — a former World Bank official whom Arafat appointed Finance Minister of the PNA in 2002 — Arafat's commodity monopolies could accurately be seen as gouging his own people, " especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral.

President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim appointed Jin-Yong Cai to serve as the new Executive Vice President and CEO of the IFC.

The national bank was in general disrepute among most Americans when Nicholas Biddle, the third and last president of the Bank, was appointed by President James Monroe in 1823.

The chief personnel for the Bank comprised twenty-five directors, five of whom were appointed by the President of the United States, subject to Senate approval.

Two years later, he was appointed director of the Nederlandsche Bank, serving as its president from 1982 to 1997.

In 1924 Sun appointed TV Soong to set up the first Chinese Central bank called the Canton Central Bank.

In November 2010, it was reported that Virgin Atlantic had appointed Deutsche Bank to begin a strategic review of options for the airline following the tie-up between British Airways and American Airlines.

In 1968 he was appointed as Chairman of the board of the Bank of Finland, a position he retained until 1982.

In 1923 President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg appointed him chairman of the Bank of Finland, a post he remained in until he became prime minister in 1939.

Frank McKenna was appointed as Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group effective May 1, 2006.

In January 1939, Hitler appointed Funk as President of the Reichsbank, again replacing Schacht, and this way he became also a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, based in Switzerland.

Another longtime associate was David Rockefeller ( yet another Bilderberg regular ), who appointed him to the International Advisory Committee ( IAC ) of Chase Manhattan Bank, of which Rockefeller was chairman ; Agnelli sat on this committee for thirty years.

Dunglass was appointed a director of the Bank of Scotland in 1946, and although he never considered banking as a long-term occupation he gained valuable first-hand experience in commerce and finance.

On January 9, 2004, Fairchild Semiconductor CEO Kirk Pond was appointed as a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, elected by member banks to serve a three year term.

He was appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 1993, succeeding Robin Leigh-Pemberton, now Lord Kingsdown, and retired on the completion of his second five-year term of office on 30 June 2003.

In 1998 he was appointed president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and settled in London, where the headquarters of the bank is located.

Several of Wolfowitz's initial appointments at the Bank proved controversial, including two US nationals ( Robin Cleveland and Kevin Kellems ) formerly with the Bush administration, whom he appointed as close advisors with $ 250, 000 tax-free contracts.

According to Nicole Gaouette, in her report published in the Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2007, Juan José Daboub — the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and " a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party "— repeatedly deleted references to family planning from World Bank proposals.

The new state bank was to act as Morocco's Central Bank, but with a strict cap on the spending of the Sherifiangfd Empire, with administrators appointed by the national banks that guaranteed the loans: the German Empire, United Kingdom, France and Spain.

In July 1982, after the Falklands War fiasco brought more moderate leadership to the military dictatorship, Cavallo was appointed President of the Central Bank.

He was subsequently appointed Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank.