WELLESLEY BANCORP, INC. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND

EX-4.1 6 d224887dex41.htm SPECIMEN COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE OF WELLESLEY BANCORP, INC SPECIMEN COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE OF WELLESLEY BANCORP, INC

Exhibit 4.1

 

COMMON STOCK

   COMMON STOCK

CERTIFICATE NO.        

   SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
   CUSIP                

WELLESLEY BANCORP, INC.

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND

THIS CERTIFIES THAT

S P E C I M E N

is the owner of:

FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK, $0.01 PAR VALUE PER SHARE, OF

WELLESLEY BANCORP, INC.

The shares represented by this certificate are transferable only on the stock transfer books of Wellesley Bancorp, Inc. (the “Corporation”) by the holder of record hereof, or by his duly authorized attorney or legal representative, upon the surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate and the shares represented hereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation and any amendments thereto (copies of which are on file with the Corporate Secretary of the Corporation), to all of which provisions the holder by acceptance hereof, assents.

This certificate is not valid unless countersigned and registered by the Corporation’s Transfer Agent and Registrar. The shares represented by this certificate are not of an insurable type and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

IN WITNESS THEREOF, Wellesley Bancorp, Inc. has caused this certificate to be executed by the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers and has caused a facsimile of its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed.

 

Dated:        [SEAL]    
    

 

      

 

  President and Chief Executive Officer      Corporate Secretary


Wellesley Bancorp, Inc.

The shares represented by this certificate are subject to a limitation contained in the Articles of Incorporation to the effect that in no event shall any record owner of any outstanding common stock which is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by a person who beneficially owns in excess of 10% of the outstanding shares of common stock (the “Limit”) be entitled or permitted to any vote in respect of shares held in excess of the Limit.

The Board of Directors of the Corporation is authorized by resolution(s), from time to time adopted, to provide for the issuance of serial preferred stock in series and to fix and state the voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof. The Corporation will furnish to any shareholder upon request and without charge a full description of each class of stock and any series thereof.

The shares represented by this certificate may not be cumulatively voted on any matter.

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM   - as tenants in common   

UNIF GIFTS MIN ACT -

                custodian for              under Uniform
        Gifts to Minors Act                     
        (State)
TEN ENT   - as tenants by the entireties      
       
JT TEN  

- as joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as
tenants in common

  

UNIF TRF MIN ACT -

   custodian (until age        )             
        under Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
       
                  (State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

For value received,                      hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER

IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee

                                                                               shares of the common stock represented by this certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                                                                                                                           , attorney, to transfer the said stock on the books of the Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

DATED           

 

       NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 

SIGNATURE GUARANTEED:   

 

    
   THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM), PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15