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amount to $2,850.00 ; and the total assets amount to -159,493.43. 

 Since organization there had been paid to withdrawing share- 

 holders $4,074.25. Forty-one of the members are now paying 

 for their homes through the bank. 



The present officers of the bank are : — 



President — Ebed L. Ripley. 

 Vice-F 'resident — C Sumner Cushing. 

 Secretary and Treasurer — Walter B. Foster. 



Finance Committee — Win. Fearing, 2d, George Price, Eugene F. Skinner. 

 Security Committee — E. Waters Burr, Edward W. Bartlett, Francis M. Ripley, 

 C. Sumner Gushing, Stetson Foster. 



Directors. 



The above named officers and committees and 



Thomas Howe, Arthur M. Bibby, 



Waite W. Simmons, John C. Hollis, 



Edward G. Tinsley, Edwin J. Pierce, 



C. Sumner Henderson, George R. Turner. 



Auditors — William H. Thomas, Charles W. S. Seymour, Louis P. Nash. 



Attorney — Edward B. Pratt. 



LORING HALL. 



In May, 1845, a public meeting of ladies was held for the pur- 

 pose of ascertaining how many were disposed to co-operate in 

 " a vigorous effort " to supply the want of " a commodious and 

 suitable building for Lectures, Picnics, and Social Meetings of all 

 kinds." At this meeting it was determined by the ladies to hold 

 " a fair to aid in building a Lyceum Hall," and a committee was 

 appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the attain- 

 ment of the object. The ladies composing this committee, and 

 who persevered to the end, were — 



Mrs. Rufus W. Lincoln, Mrs. David Harding, 



" Caleb B. Marsh, " Joseph Sprague, 



" Job S. Whiton, " John P. Hersey, 



" Royal Whiton, " John Gill, 



Miss Susan Lincoln. 



By means of a Fair, a Concert, a Social Party, etc., the com- 

 mittee, with the aid of many others who felt an interest in 

 the undertaking, succeeded in obtaining the sum of $659.56, 

 which was deposited in the Hingham Institution for Savings, 

 until withdrawn to be applied to the object for which it was 

 designed. The fund had accumulated, when thus applied, to the 

 amount of $926.77. 



In 1851, by the kind suggestion of a lady who took a deep 

 interest in the project, the wants of this community were made 

 known to Col. Benjamin Loring, of Boston. He immediately 

 offered to supply the funds necessary for the erection of a suitable 

 building. 



