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The first bank's documented absence can now be printed at list strength: the State Bank of Indiana never kept a branch on this ground. The system itself is settled: chartered 28 January 1834, a state bank with ten branches at first (later thirteen at most), its charter running to 1 January 1859, the state office at Indianapolis supervising branches that alone issued and paid notes. The branch seats are enumerated in the period record — the 1852 state gazetteer (Fisher's Indiana, compiled from official sources) lists the branches at Bedford, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Lawrenceburg, Madison, Michigan City, New Albany, Richmond, South Bend and Terre Haute, with Vincennes in the founding nine of the bank's own history. The district for this ground was served from South Bend. Lakeville — a village not incorporated until 1902, whose own banked count begins with charter No. 516 in 1917 — appears in no branch list, annual report or condition record reached, and the banked banks file's whole-count statement (exactly two banks ever headquartered here) is now completed by the branch limb it always lacked: no State Bank branch stood here either. The absence is documented, not assumed: the branch that served this county stood in South Bend, and its record belongs to South Bend's file.