Returns of corporations of unclaimed dividends and balances, 1838.

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Returns of corporations of unclaimed dividends and balances, 1838.

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Pursuant to St 1837, c 56, each corporation in Massachusetts was to publish every five years a list of its dividends and balances unclaimed for two years or more, in a Boston newspaper and in a newspaper of the county in which the corporation was established. Corporation secretaries sent returns to the state secretary to show compliance with the law.

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