| Description | This volume contains extracts from the minutes of the Committee of Treasury, 1922-69, relating to Stock Exchange matters. It also contains documents placed before the Committee covering the same period. Subjects covered include inter alia: the bar on foreign issues in the 1920s, 1925; Rule 134, 1926; the establishment of a Guarantee Fund, 1930; Treasury (HMT) ask the Bank to offer the services of Government research organisations to help issuing houses assess the merits of proposed high technology issues, 1935; Investigation into placings, 1935; Investment Trusts, 1936; Analysis of Capital Issues, 1936 (including details of advisers, expenses, yield and cover); Share pushing, 1937; Stamp Duty, 1953; Options, 1958; Takeover Bids, 1959; Brewer Securities, 1959; Transfer, 1960; Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and Gilts, 1965; Takeover Panel, 1967-69; CDs, 1968. |