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Polk's Indiana Gazetteer 1916–1917 and the place-name course
A bank in the directory era was listed under its place, and the place heads of the county's gazetteers are the census of the county's banking points: South Bend's banks fill columns; the township's smaller places carry their banks under their own heads where they had them. Indian Village has no head in any of it, for the reason the land and name sections establish: the place did not exist in print before the 1958/1959 quadrangle course, and no institution can be listed under a name that was not yet on the map. The layer is printed at its true weight — it does not prove that no banking happened on this farmland, and banking in the farm sense (a South Bend bank holding the mortgage, the crop note, the Eaton lease's paper) is the township's ordinary course, carried in the farms section. What the layer settles is the charter question in its directory form: no bank was ever organised, named, or listed at this ground.