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make reports to him by the provisions of this Act, shall make
use 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 letterheads,
billheads, blank notes, blank receipts, certificates, circulars or
any written or printed or partly written and partly 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 persons
violating any of the provisions of this section, either individ-
ually or as an interested party in. any copartnership or corpo-
ration, 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; provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to an individual or copartnership who displays
his individual or copartnership name as bank or bankers on
its banking house or office, and upon its stationery and litera-
ture.

75. 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 meet-
ings, 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 owner 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 without any under-
standing 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 attorney, 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 prin-
cipal, 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 shah 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 provided further, that nothing
in this Act shall prevent a stockholder whose shares of stock