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