If the provisions of the charter had been obeyed, the Bank should have received $7 million in specie from its private stockholders and $21 million in government stock. What it really did receive is beyond exact calculation: the statement that it collected $2 million in coin, $14 million in government securites, and $12 million in personal notes may be taken only as a rough picture of its situation. It was, at any rate, obliged to send John Sergeant to London to look for more specie at a time when the competition for precious metals was almost fierce, and from the summer of 1817 to the end of 1818 it succeeded in importing $7,300,000 at a cost of itself of some $500,000.