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  2. Osborn v. Bank of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1819, Ohio passed a law that put a tax on the Bank of the United States on the theory that taxing the bank would allow the state government to receive and distribute the scarce money. On September 17, 1819, Ohio Auditor Ralph Osborn was given permission to seize $100,000 from a branch of the Bank of the United States. However, his agents ...

  3. Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories ...

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    It is the main organ remaining of the mostly defunct Israeli Civil Administration, [citation needed] which had governed the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 1981 and 1994. COGAT is responsible for implementing the Israeli government's policy in the Area C of the West Bank and vis-à-vis the Gaza Strip. In addition, COGAT constitutes the ...

  4. Bank of Valletta - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .bov .com. Bank of Valletta plc ( BOV) is a Maltese bank and financial services company headquartered in Santa Venera. It is the oldest established financial services provider in Malta and one of the largest. As of 2014, the bank had 44 branches, 6 regional business centres, a head office, and a wealth management arm located around ...

  5. Public holidays in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, public holidays are set by federal, state, and local governments and are often observed by closing government offices or giving government employees paid time off. The federal government does not require any private business to close or offer paid time off, as is the case for most state local governments, so employers ...

  6. National Bank of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    NBK is a large financial services provider in Kenya, serving individuals, small-to-medium companies and businesses (SMEs) and large corporations. Headquartered in Nairobi, the bank owns one subsidiary company: NatBank Trustee and Investment Services Limited. As of December 2018, National Bank of Kenya's asset base was valued at approximately US ...

  7. Government cheese - Wikipedia

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    Government cheese is a commodity cheese that was controlled by the US federal government from World War II to the early 1980s. Government cheese was created to maintain the price of dairy when dairy industry subsidies artificially increased the supply of milk and created a surplus of milk that was then converted into cheese, butter, or powdered ...

  8. Rastriya Banijya Bank - Wikipedia

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    Rastriya Banijya Bank ( RBB) ( translation: National Commercial Bank; Nepali: राष्ट्रिय वाणिज्य बैंक) is fully government owned, and the largest commercial bank in Nepal. [1] [2] RBB was established on January 23, 1966 (2022 Magh 10 BS) under the RBB Act. RBB provides banking services to customers ...

  9. Federal Reserve Act - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States . The Panic of 1907 convinced many Americans [who?] of the need to establish a central banking system, which the ...