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Show SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC. New Rule Which Affects Seven Thousand Thou-sand National Banks. Washington. Disclosures following the forced liquidation of tho Quanah National bank of Quanah, Tex., ion lays ago, caused tho comptroller of tho currency to Issuo an order direct Ing every ono of tho 7,100 national banks In tho United Stntes to Install what practically amounts to a uniform uni-form system of bookkeeping. Investigation disclosed that tho bank had boon doing business for tho Inst two years, although undoubtedly Insolvent. It hnd been Inspected nt regular Intervals by national bank examiners. ex-aminers. Within that tlmo tho examiners ivere unnblo to learn the bank's true condition, largely because the management man-agement refused to keep a proper record of its transactions. |