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From the annual report of the Bank Commissioners, Messrs. A. C. Robbins and F. E. Webb, we learn that nine State banks still retain their charters and transact business. All the other State banks. 60 in number. are either closing their affairs or have been converted into National Banks. Of the nine State banks which have retained their charters, four have forfeited them by not accepting the act of 1867, and the charters of five, viz: the City Bank, Bath, and the Eastern. Farmer's. Mercantile and Veazie Banks, of Bangor. will expire on the 1st of next October. Although the time within which the old State banks were to redeem their bills has in many cases expired, and in other cases will expire in March next. yet all of them have continued to redeem the old bills. The whole circulation of the State banks is only $260,422. The American Bank. Hallowell, is still in the hands of the Receivers, who report' assets at $85,000 and debt at $43,000. The creditors of this bank, who are becoming uneasy on account of the "law's" delay in settling its affairs, are counselled to have "patience." Two new savings' banks were, in 1867, added to the eighteen in existence in 1866. Those are the Dexter Savings Bank, at Dexter, and the Lamberman's Bank, at Oldtown.