Book excerpt: Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Association of Banks, for the Suppression of Counterfeiting, 1855 Two Banks are members in the State of New York, and the Bank of Quebec in Canada, making in all two hundred and twenty-one Banks now belonging to the Association. Last year the number belonging to the Association was one hundred and ten, making an increase the present year of one hundred and eleven Banks. There were twenty charters granted for Banks by the last Legislature of Massachusetts, making one hundred and seventy-one, which, together with the increase of charters in the other New England States, will make a total of about five hundred institutions of this class in New England. It is very desirable that every Bank in New England should be a member of the Association. 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.