The first of them which occurs is, the at least
situation in which the bank of North-America has placed itself, by the acceptance of its last charter: If this has rendered it the mere bank of a particular state, liable to dissolution at the expiration of fourteen years, to which term the act of that state has restricted its duration; it would be neither fit nor expe- dient, to accept it as-an equivalent for a bank of the.
Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank
