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Title: Bank of the Manhattan Company
Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: December 22, 2005 [EBook #17374]

Language: English

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Bank of the
Manhattan
Company

ORIGIN
HISTORY
PROGRESS

40 Wall Street
New York

[Illustration: PRESENT OFFICE OF THE MANHATTAN COMPANY
40-42 WALL STREET
Building erected jointly in 1884 by the Manhattan Company and the
Merchants' National Bank]

BANK
OF THE
MANHATTAN COMPANY

CHARTERED 1799

A PROGRESSIVE COMMERCIAL BANK

[Illustration: CHIEF OF THE MANHATTANS]

40 WALL STREET
NEW YORK

[Illustration: Common Seal]

On May 8th, 1799, the Committee of By-Laws reported "that they had
devised a common seal for the Corporation, the description of which is
as follows:

"Oceanus, one of the sea Gods, sitting in a reclining posture on a
rising ground pouring water from an urn which forms a river and
terminates in a lake. On the exergue will be inscribed 'Seal of the
Manhattan Company.'"

There are nine banks now in existence whose history reaches back into
the Eighteenth Century. Of these, two are in Massachusetts, two in
Connecticut, one in Pennsylvania, one in Delaware, one in Maryland and
two in New Yor