Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 6

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Page lxviii - No such corporation shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...
Page lxviii - But the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith against actually existing values, and the discount of commercial or business paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same, shall not be considered as money borrowed.
Page xxvii - ... in accordance with the order of the court; or the deposit in controversy may be paid into court to await the final determination of the action ; and when so paid into court the corporation shall be stricken out as a party to any such action, and its liability for such deposit shall cease.
Page lxviii - The total liabilities to any association, of any person, or of any company, corporation, or firm for money borrowed, including in the liabilities of a company or firm the liabilities of the several members thereof, shall at no time exceed onetenth part of the amount of the capital stock of such association actually paid in.
Page lxvi - ... every other association shall at all times have on hand, in lawful money of the United States, an amount equal to at least fifteen per centum of the aggregate amount of its notes in circulation and of its deposits.
Page xv - A clerk neglecting to make such notification or publication, or making a false publication, and any person who knowingly publishes or circulates, or knowingly causes to be published or circulated, a printed notice containing the name of a person as an officer of...
Page xvii - ... who shall certify to the value of the premises mortgaged or to be mortgaged, according to their best judgment, and such report shall be filed and preserved among the records of the corporation.
Page xxxviii - ... loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith; and stock so purchased or acquired shall, within six months from the time of its purchase, be sold or disposed of at public or private sale...
Page xx - SEC. 20. The Commissioners of Savings Banks shall perform, in reference to every such corporation, the same duties, and shall have the same powers, as are required of or given to them in reference to savings banks...
Page xxxii - January of every oddnumbered year, return to the board of bank commissioners a sworn statement showing the amount placed to his credit, the last known place of residence or postoffice address, and the fact of death, if known to...

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