Excerpt from Annual Report of the Bank Commissioners, December, 1856 The number of banks of discount and circulation in actual Operation within the Commonwealth, at the close of the year 1855, was 170, including the Grocers' Bank, of Boston, then under temporary injunction, to which we shall make further reference in this Report. Its affairs have been in the course of liquidation, the past year, some details of which will be seen in Note A of the Appendix hereto. It will pay all its public debts, and a dividend to its stockholders, the amount of which is, as yet, uncertain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.