| Description | Contents include: Transcript of Evidence to House of Lords Secret Committee on Commercial Distress, 1848; Freshfields advice on Promissory Oaths Bill, 1868; Description of duties of the Governors, 1876; Interpretation of clause in Charter on taking of Oath, 1890; Frank May papers; Freshfields opinion on rights of individual Directors to look at books, 1893; Lord Leven's memorandum on need to strengthen Court and Committee of Treasury (inter alia by removing from the Committee of Treasury the ex Governors who failed to supervise May), 1894; Miscellaneous correspondence with Lord Leven, 1894-95; Retirement by Rotation, 1897; Quorum, 1906, 1933, 1934, 1939, 1941; Advances against War Loan, 1918; Procedure in absence of both Governors, 1934; Committee of Daily Waiting/Directors Rota, 1937, 1939; Members for the City, 1940; Resignation, 1940, 1941, 1943; Montagu Collet Norman's retirement; Miscellaneous papers on resignation, seniority etc, 1944. |