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Show amendment to the bill, in recognition of his services, made the comptroller of the currency a member of the assay commission. He was continued in the ofliee of comptroller by PresidentdlAYES in 1877, and took an active part iu the arrangements arrange-ments for making the assistant treasurer treas-urer a member of the New York clearing clear-ing house, and for the resumption ot specie payments January 1. lHT'J. and in the negotiation with bankers relative to the plan for the issue of 3J per cent bonds in 1883. He was again appointed comptroller by President AltTlirit, but resigned in becoming president of the National bank of the Republic iu New York city. His twelve annual reports constitute a standard authority on financial ijues-tions ijues-tions that have arisen out of the civil war. He delivered addresses before the American Bankers' association and similar bodies, lectured to the students ot Johns Hopkins university, contrili uted articles on financial subjects to cyclopedias, published a monograph on 'United States Notes, or a History of tins Various issues of Paper Money by the (iovei nment of the United States,'' and Collected material for a history of banking in the United States. .!(!! s ,; V. Ii s,,. John Jav Kxo.x, who died on Monday, Mon-day, occupied a foremost place among the finmeieta of America. He was born at Kuoxboro, X.Y., in 188, and trained to business in the bank of Vernon. Ver-non. From 1S3T to 1S62 he was a private pri-vate banker in St. Paul. In January. he contributed a paper to Hunt's Merchants' Maga:ine, in which he advocated ad-vocated tht! establishment of a national banking system with circulation guaranteed guar-anteed by the government. Secretary Chase's attention was attracted to its author, who was given an appointment under thi! gov ernment, doing important import-ant work in San Francisco and New Orleans. In lSOii he was placed in charge of the mint aud coinage correspondence corre-spondence of the treasury department at Washington; was appointed deputy comptroller of the currency on October I 10, 1879, by Secretary MoCcl&OCB, and advanced to the comptroUership on April 24, 187$ by President Grant. His report on the mint service, containing con-taining a codification of the coinage laws with amendments, was printed by order of congress in 1870. The bill which he prepared was passed, with $ few modilications. under the title of i "tho coinage act of 1873, " and an j |