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.Bast
September 15, 1914.
Dear Sir:
We wish to announce to our friends and customers that this bank has duly qualified to become a guaranteed bank, and its deposits eligible to guaranty are guaranteed by the Bank Depositors Guaranty Fund of the State of Mississippi, as per certificate below.
While our depositors have always been perfectly safe on account of our conservative management, now they have additional protection under the Missippippi Banking Law of 1914.
If you are not already one of our customers, we invite you to become one. Liberal rates of interest paid on time and savings accounts. MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK.
Cordially yours,
THE MERCHANTS BANK.
COPY OF CERTIFICATE.
“This is to certify that the Merchants Bank, of Bay St. Louis, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, upon a rigid examination by the State Bank Examiner of the State of Mississippi, whose signature is attached to this certificate, has been found eligible to come under the Guaranty Law of the State of Mississippi with reference to its deposits; that it has complied with the law in regard to the payment of its assessment to the Depositors Guaranty Fund and the Guaranty Fund with the State Treasurer; and that the depositors of the said Merchants Bank, of Bay St. Louis, are guaranteed by the Bank Depositors Guaranty Fund of the State of Mississippi.”
Given under my hand and seal this the 29th day of August, 1914.
J. S. LOVE,
State Bank Examiner of the State of Mississippi