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Stockholders Of Bank Closed Two Years Ago Faced By Assessment Special to The Herald Statesman MAMARONECK, Feb. 26. — Stockholders in the old First National Bank and Trust Company, which two years ago turned over its known assets and liabilities to its successor, the First National Bank in Mamaroneck, but never itself liquidated, today face the prospect of an assessment on their stock in the old defunct bank by reason of an order by J. F. T. O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, placing the dormant corporation officially in receivership. H. E. Meeker, appointed receiver of the successor bank when it closed its doors a year ago, and who has been named to liquidate the precedent bank, declined today to say that the liquidation will be accompanied by a levy on the $150,000 capital stock outstanding, but others versed in banking affairs say such a step is now inevitable. The levy will work a hardship on many who, after finding their stock in the old bank apparently worthless, from patriotic motives, dug down in their pockets and subscribed for stock in the new bank, an investment that has since worked to their misfortune in the form of a levy by the bank receiver for the full amount of their stock. For some it means a fourfold loss on the amount of their original stock investment.