Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-02-10
Ward.
nd Ward.
!. 81 wata.
|, 4th Ward.
AN ACT
For incorporating the Bank Of VlggSs'aG.
Passed sotb January, tso4.l
AN ACT

Section 1. BE 1t enacted 6g the General
xSssm5ls,. That a Bank of Virginia shall
he established at Richmond, the capital
stock whereof shall not excited one million
FIVE hundred thousand dollars, and shall be
divided into shares of one hundred dollars
each: and the subscriptions towards con-
stituting the said stock, shall on the hrst
Mondav In May next be opened At kicil-
mond for three thousand seven hundred
and f,fty shares; at Norfolk for three thou
sand shares at Petersburg for two thou
sand two hundred and hfty shares; at FIRE.
.dercksburg for fifteen hundred shares; at
Winchester for five hundred and twenty
five shares; at Stanton for four hundred
and fifty shares; AID al Iynchburg Tor
Ave hundred and twenty Ave shares :--un-
der the superintendent of Edward Car
rington, Joseph Gallego, Robert Pollard,
ss--,uass.I s4Isrsen Philn N. Nicholas, Iohn
jamin Hatcher and James +. LEIGH, at
Richmond, OF LittIeton W. TazeweIl,
Thomas A. Parker, Richard Blow, George
M'Intosh, William Bennett, John E. Holt,
Solomon Bedinger, Theodorick Armstead,
and Richard Z. Lee, at Norfolk, of Ro-
bert Birchett, Robert Colquhoun, Ebene-
ger Stoot, Archibald Thweatt, Paul Nash,
John Bell and John Wilder, at Petersburg;
of Robert Patton, George French, Stephen
Winchester, Alexander Duncan, Thomas
Goodwin, John Mundell and William S.
Stone, at Fredericksburg; Of Hugh Holmes,
Edward Smith, Robert Mackey, Adam
Douglass, William Davidson, John Am
bier, Archibald NIGH and John Milton,
at Winchester; Of Johu Wait, Alexander
St. Clair, John Facklei, Samuel Blackburn,
John Coalter, J. M'Dowel, Jacob Swoope
and Jacob Kinney, at Stanton; of James
Steptoe, William Brown, Thomas Higgin-
botham, Samuel Irvine, William War;
wick, Joel Yancey, James Stuart, ands
Thomas S. McCleland, at Lynchburg and.
majority Of the said commissioners, at
the places above mentioned respectively
shall be sufficient to perform the duties Of
their appointment; and they shall keep tbs
subscription open at least for the term of
ten DAYS, and If not completed at the expi-
ration of that term, then they shall keep the 1
same open until the number of shares al
the places above mentioned respectively, 1
shall be subscribed for, and no longer; but
if the subscription shall be filed at any
time before the expiration of the said term
of ten days, then, and immediately after
sllle~ same shall be filed, no person, or CO.
partnership, on body polite, shall, during
The remainder OF the term aforesaid, be
permitted 10 subscribe for more than two
shares.
Sect. 4. ARd be itjuvthsr enacted, That
all the subscriptions and the shares obtain |
ed ii consequence thereof, shall be deemed
and heid to be for the sole and excluslveuse
and benefit Of the persons, ccpartnerships, /
or bodies polite, respectively subscribing,
or IN whose behalf the subscriptions res
pectiyely shall be declared to be made, at
he time Of making the same; ard all bar
Pc ms, contracts promises and engagements
ia any wise contavening this provision,
Ahall be s2sd and the persons, cOpartaer-