Excerpt from An Act to Incorporate the Western Saving Fund Society of Philadelphia: With the by-Laws, Rules and Regulations, Adopted by the Managers Whereas, great benefit has arisen to tradesmen, mechanics, laborers, domestics, and others', from the establishment of institutions for receiving and safely investing such sums as are saved from their earnings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.