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bell, clerk. The Third Branch was at Richmond. Achilles Williams, 

 Lot Bloomfield, and Newton Claypool were the state directors, with 

 Achilles Williams, president, Elijah Coffin, cashier, and Noah Leeds, 

 clerk. This branch was to serve L^nion, Fayette, Rush, Wayne, 

 Henry, Delaware, and Randolph counties. The Fourth Branch, 

 for Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, Bartholomew, and Jackson counties, 

 was at Madison; and the state directors were William Button, 

 Robert Branham, and WllHamson Dunn, with J. F. D. Lanier, 

 president, and John Sering, cashier. The Fifth Branch, for Floyd, 

 Harrison, Washington, Crawford, and Clark counties was located 

 at New Albany; the state directors were J. S. Simonson, Isaac 

 Stewart, and Somerville Edwards; Mason C. Fitch was president 

 and J. R. Shields, cashier. The Sixth Branch, at Evansville, for 

 Posey, Vanderburgh, Perry, Spencer, and Warrick counties, was 

 organized with Francis Amory, Jr., John A. Brackenridge, and 

 John Mitchell, state directors; John Mitchell, president, and John 

 Douglass, cashier. The Seventh Branch, with Samuel Emison, 

 John Wise, and John Law state directors for Knox, Sullivan, Daviess, 

 Gibson, Pike, and Dubois counties was at Vincennes; and was in 

 charge of D. S. Bonner, president, and John Ross, cashier. The 

 Eighth Branch, for Orange, Lawrence, Monroe, Morgan, Martin, 

 and Greene counties, was established at Bedford, and had Moses 

 Fell, William McLane, and Pleasant Parks for state directors, with 

 WilhaTQ McLane, president, D. R. Dunihue, cashier, and John 

 Brown, clerk. At Terre Haute the Ninth Branch was organized, 

 for Vigo, Clay, Owen, Putnam, Parke, and Vermillion counties; 

 Asoph Hill, James Townsend, and Robert Hoggatt were chosen 

 state directors, with Demos Deming president, and A. B. Fontaine, 

 cashier. The Tenth Branch was organized at Lafayette for Tippe- 

 canoe, Fountain, Montgomery, Warren, Carroll, and Clinton coun- 

 ties, with J. W. Powers, Thomas Benbridge, and I. S. Hanna, 

 directors on the part of the state, and Thomas T. Benbridge, presi- 

 dent. The cashier, if it had any, was not named in the report. 

 The state directors were ordered to locate the Eleventh Branch, 

 after the lapse of a year, for the counties of Adams, Grant, Hunting- 

 ton, Wabash, Miami, Allen, LaGrange, Elkhart, and the unorganized 

 territory. Still another, the Twelfth, was to be opened in the 

 country north of the Wabash river. The law provided that the 

 directors should choose one of their own number president. 



A loan of a half million was effected by the loan agents of the 

 state, the Fund Commissioners, August 6, and Governor Noble set 

 November 19, as the day for the Bank to open its doors for business. 



