12 BANKS. [ART. 11

Savings Banks.

1894, ch. 329.

7 A. In the month of October, in the year 1895, and in every
second year thereafter, the treasurer of every savings bank or
savings institution in the State of Maryland, shall deliver to the
comptroller a written statement sworn to by him or by the presi-
dent of such savings bank, containing the name and amount
standing to his or her credit, of every depositor who shall not
have made any deposit therein or withdrawn any money upon
their accounts for the period of twenty years next prior to the
first day of the preceding September; provided, that this section
shall not apply to the deposit made by any person known to the
said treasurer to be living. The comptroller shall communicate
the statements which shall be so delivered to him to the General
Assembly in his next report.

Ibid.

7 B. Any treasurer of any savings bank in the State of Mary-
land who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of
the preceding section, shall be subject to a fine of five hundred
dollars for each failure or neglect, to be recovered by indictment
in the circuit court for the county where the savings bank may
be located, or in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, as the case
may be.

Banking Associations.

1898, ch. 277.

10. Every banking association authorized by its charter to
do a banking business in this State, shall make to the Treas-
urer of the State of Maryland not less than five reports during
each year according to the form which may be prescribed by
him, which reports shall be verified by the oath or affirmation
of the president, cashier or treasurer of such association or trust
company, and attested by the signatures of at least three of the
directors thereof, such oath or affirmation to be made before any
officer of this State authorized to take acknowledgments of
deeds, and every report so made shall exhibit in detail and under
appropriate heads, the resources and liabilities of such asso-
ciation, at the close of business on any past day by him, the
treasurer, specified, and which said reports respectively shall be