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Comptroller of the Currency   /kəmtrˈoʊlər əv ðə kˈərənsi/   Listen
Comptroller of the Currency

noun
1.
A United States federal official who regulates the national banks.
2.
The agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency.





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"Comptroller of the currency" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ridgely, the grandfather of the Hon. William Barret Ridgely, who married one of my daughters, and who served as United States Comptroller of the Currency for a number of years, was one of the leading bankers of the State, and was reputed to be one of the first millionaires of Illinois. He was a very careful banker, and was probably too careful to be ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom
... another financial measure to aid the government was the creation of national banks. In 1863 Congress established the office of "Comptroller of the Currency," and authorized him to permit the establishment of banking associations. Each must consist of not less than five persons, must have a certain capital, and must deposit with the Treasury Department at Washington government bonds equal to ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... to assist them in closing up said company, and pay them a reasonable compensation for their services out of the funds of said company; and the said commissioners shall retain out of said funds a reasonable compensation for their trouble, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency, and not exceeding three thousand dollars each per annum. Said commissioners shall deposit all sums collected by them in the Treasury of the United States until they make a pro rata distribution of ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams
... is a bureau of the Treasury Department having charge of all matters relating to national banks, the chief officer of which is the comptroller of the currency. ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various
... evidence showing that few laws were ever more openly proposed, year after year, and squarely understood than the Coinage Act of 1873, will require but a moment. It had been for years elaborately considered and reported upon by the Deputy Comptroller of the Currency. The special attention of Congress was called to the bill and the report by the Secretary of the Treasury in his annual re-ports for 1870, 1871, and 1872, where the "new features" of the bill, "discontinuing the coinage of the silver dollar," were ...
— American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various


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