Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two An act to incorporate sundry persons by the name of "The President and Directors of the Massachusetts State Bank." ((Published by order of the House of Representatives.) By Thomas Adams, at the State Press in Boston, (Massachusetts), 1792)
Apparently a draft or model for the legislation incorporating the Union Bank (the Massachusetts Bank was incorporated in 1784). The present text, as amended by the printer's annotations on the American Antiquarian Society copy, is nearly that of that act, passed June 22, 1792 and published in the session laws for May 1792 (Evans 24517). - Evans, 24522. - Imprint from colophon. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in transcription