bank-notes
131Suffolk Bank — was a clearinghouse bank in Boston, Massachusetts that exchanged specie or locally backed bank notes for notes from country banks to which city dwellers could not easily travel to redeem notes. [Rolnick, Arthur J., Bruce D. Smith, and Warren E.… …
132national bank — 1. a bank chartered by the U.S. government and formerly authorized to issue notes that served as money. 2. a bank owned and administered by the government, as in some European countries. [1780 90, Amer.] * * * In the U.S., any commercial bank… …
