The bank grew as New York City became the nation's commercial and financial capital, and in 1865 it was chartered under the National Bank Act and renamed the National City Bank of New York.
With the BBC charter under the microscope and the Ofcom review of public service broadcasting under way, we couldn't be in a better position to examine all the options.
The states pointed to the agency's charter, under the Clean Air Act, which instructs it to regulate chemicals released into the air "which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare".
Sarah Rennick had run a small private school near this blue-collar shore town for seven years before she and her husband decided to apply for a charter under the law New Jersey approved in 1996.
In a recent report, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an environmental working group chartered under the North American Free Trade Agreement, found that no Mexican recycler had practices clean enough to receive the necessary air, water and waste permits needed to operate in the United States.
Settled in 1624 on a site called Agamenticus by Captain John Smith, who had explored the area in 1614, it became the first English city on the American continent when Sir Ferdinando Gorges endowed it with a city charter under the name of Gorgeana in 1641.
The company is applying for an industrial loan charter under the name SoFi Bank in Utah, listing a Salt Lake City location as its proposed depositary address.
In 1844, the school received a corporate charter, under the name "The President and Directors of Georgetown College", affording the growing school additional legal rights.
English and ten associates (including James Lanier) organized the First National Bank of Indianapolis in 1863, the first bank in that city chartered under the new National Bank Act.
As Wartzman concluded, "The Manager's Letter becomes the basic charter under which the employee operates and it helps to ensure that everyone is on the same page in terms of purpose and objectives--the individual employee, the supervisor, and the organization overall".
May 28th marks the expiry of the interim charter under which the country has been operating.
