348 ARTICLE 11.

An. Code, sec. 75. 1910, ch. 219, sec. 74 (p. 30). 1912, ch. 194, sec. 74. 1918, ch. 33. sec. 75.

78. No person, co-partnership or corporation not subject to the super-
vision and examinations of the Bank Commissioner, and not required to
make reports to him by the provisions of this Article, shall make xise of any
sign at the place where such business is transacted, having thereon any
artificial or corporate name or other words indicating that such place or
office is the place or office of a banking institution as defined in this Article;
nor shall such person or persons make use of or circulate any letter-heads,
bill-heads, blank notes, blank receipts, certificates, circulars, or any written
or printed, or partly written or printed paper whatever, having thereon
any artificial or corporate name, or other word or words indicating that
such business is the business of a banking institution. Any person or per-
sons violating any of the provisions of this section, either individually or.
as an interested party in any copartnership or corporation, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in. a sum not
more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than one
year, or by both fine and imprisonment. The provisions of this section shall
not apply to persons, copartnerships, or corporations which, on June 1,
1918, are engaged in business in incorporated towns or cities of the State
of less than ten thousand inhabitants.

An. Code, sec. 76. 1910, ch. 219, sec. 75 (p. 31).

79. At all meetings of the stockholders of a bank or trust company for
elections and other purposes, no person shall be allowed to vote on any share
or shares of stock at such meetings, either in person or by proxy, unless the
said person shall, if required by a stockholder, make oath before the judges
of election, or other officers of the meeting, that he or she, as the case may
be, is the lawful and bona fide owiner of said stock, having purchased and
paid, or secured payment for the same with a full consideration, or received
the same by inheritance, bequest, marriage, distribution or gift, and with-
out any understanding that the said stock is to be transferred to the party
from whom it was received; or in case of voting by proxy or power of attor-
ney, the person holding such proxy or power of attorney shall make oath or
affirmation, if required by a stockholder, that he believed his principal, for
whom he offers to vote, bought and paid for, or secured the payment for the
said stock with a full consideration, or that the said principal, to the best
of his knowledge and belief, is the real bona fide owner of said stock, having
acquired the same, as the case may be, by inheritance, bequest, marriage,
distribution or gift; provided, however, that this provision shall apply only
to such shares of stock in the corporations aforesaid as shall appear to have
been transferred upon the books of the corporation within one year next
preceding the meeting at which it is offered to vote upon them; and pro-
vided further, that nothing in this article shall prevent a stockholder whose
shares of stock shall be in good faith pledged for a loan from voting his or
its stock so long as the same has not been actually sold.

An. Code, sec. 77. 1910, ch. 219, sec. 76 (p. 32).

80. Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously instigate, make, cir-
culate or transmit to another or others any statement, untrue in fact,