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e Plan Adopted by Denver and Other Cities to Be Carried Out. Balances Due Customers will Be Paid in Certificates Bearing Interest, in Five Equal Installments. Ever since the suspension of the Montana National bank there have been efforts made by Receiver Marlow and the officers to bring about a :esumption. There has been correspondence with the comptroller of currency, and the plans of the Denver, Spokane and other banks which have resumed have been carefully studied, and the proposition of the Montana National given below meets with the approval of the comptroller of the currency. It 3 now remains with the depositors to agree 1 to make it A success and enable the bank to i open 118 doors on or before Dec. 1. The oircular sent out to depositors on last Satur: day is 88 follows: Helena, Montana, Sept. 16. 1893.-To the s depositore of the Montana National bank ) of Helena, Montana: Owing to the unprecedented withd awal of deposits, and the impossibility of making collections during the ing and early summer, we were compelled to close our doors on July 27. To assist in making collections the bank was placed in the hands of a receiver on Angust 2, since which time, with collections already made and amount assured from the same source during the coming three months, we are satisfied, provided the depositors will ag 66 to extend the time for payme of their deposits, as per terms he emafter stated, that we can safely resome business by the first day of December, 1893. It is proposed to resume business without the borrowing of any money, and with no existing indebtedness except to depositors. With this in view, we ask your assent to accept from us in lieu of bal) ances due you. with accined interest to Aug. 1, 1893, certificates of deposit. bearing date and interest from Aug. 1, 1893, at the rate of SIX per cent per annum. payable in five equal installments of 20 per cent each. The first installment payable June 1, 1894; : the second installment payable Oct. 1. 1894; the third installment I ayable Feb. 1. 1895; the fourth installment payable June 1, 1895: f the fifth installment payable Oct. 1, 1895. . The bank reserving the right to call them t for payment at earlier dates, and also the : privilege of resuming prior to Dec. 1. If this meets with your views, please sign S the enclosed acceptance and mail to us at your earliest convenience, in enclosed onvelope. John T. Murphy, H. F. Galen, R R. C. Wallace, D. A. Cory, a E. B. Weirick, Robt. L. McCallob, r Herman Gans, C. W. Cannon, , A. L. Smith, t Committee of Directors. 1 We, the undersigned depositors, have HO1 copted above pro, osition, and recommend its acceptance by all depositors. e Nick Keealer, John B. Brondel, 8 Bald Butte Mining A. G. Clarke, Co. e John La son, Marysville, Wise & Goodkind, R Hugh McQuaid, R. O. Hickman, / Peter Larson, 7 John Winscott, E. C. Babcock, R. 8. Hale, I Gans & Klein, s C. M. Jeffries, M. Connors, F. E. Hoss, W. G. Bailey. t C. A. Molson,
