Chapter 19. authorizing the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster, Massachusetts, to change its location and name
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CHAP. 19.— An Act authorizing the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster, Massachusetts, to change its location and name.Feb. 25, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lancaster National Bank, Lancaster, Mass., to change name and location. That the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to change its location to the town of Clinton, in the county of Worcester, in said Commonwealth, whenever the stockholders representing two-thirds of the capital stock of said bank, at a meeting for that purpose, determine to make such change; and the president and cashier shall execute a certificate, under the corporate seal of the bank, specifying such determination, and shall cause the same to be recorded in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and thereupon such change of location shall be effected, and the operations of discount and deposit of said bank shall be carried on in the said town of Clinton.
Sec. 2. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as inLiabilities, etc. not affected. manner to release the said bank from any liabilities, or affect any action or proceeding in law in which said bank may be a party or interested; and when such change shall have been determined upon as aforesaid, notice thereof and of such change shall be published in two weekly papers in said county of Worcester not less than four weeks. Sec. 3. That whenever the location of said bank shall have been changed from said town of Lancaster to said town of Clinton, in accordance with the first section of this act, its name shall be changed to the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton, Massachusetts, if the board of directors of said bank shall accept the new name by resolution of the board, and cause a copy of such resolution, duly authenticated, to be tiled with the Comptroller of the Currency.
Sec. 4. That all the debts, demands, liabilities, rights, privileges, and powers of the Lancaster National Bank of Lancaster shall devolve upon the Lancaster National Bank of Clinton whenever such change of name is effected. Approved, February 25, 1882.