Excerpt from Annual Report of the Bank Commissioners, September, 1857 In obedience to the Act of April 2, 1857, requiring that the next reports of public officers, boards and institutions, made after the passage of this Act, shall be made for the period, although less than a year, ending on the thirtieth day of Sep tember, the Bank Commissioners herewith present their Seventh Annual Report. The number of banks now in operation in the Commonwealth is one hundred and seventy-two - being the same as at the close of the year 1856 - of which thirty-six are in the city of Boston. The last legislature granted a charter for only one new bank the Hide and Leather Bank, in Boston - which has not yet commenced business. 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.