Chap. 38.—An ACT to amend the charter of the bank of Portsmouth.
Approved April 1, 1857.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia. That
the fourth section of an act cntitled an act to incorporate the
bank of Portsmouth. passed February ninth, eghteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

$4. The board shall regulate the admission of members.
It may receive money on deposit. and grant certificates there-
for, as may be provided in the by-laws; and it may buy, sell,
and nevotiate bullion, coin, bank notes, foreign and domestic
bills of exchange; lend money upon person: Ul or real secur ItV,
and receive the interest in advance. and guarantee the piay-
ment of notes, bonds. bills of exchanee, or other evidences of
debt, and buy and hold any real estate on which it has or
may acquire a lien, or which may be conveyed to it in satis-
faction of debts due it, and sell and convey the same, and
hold. sell, and convey any real estate hitherto acquired by it:
provided however, that nothing in this act contained shall
authorize said bank to take, for the loan or forbearance of
money or other thing. more than the legal rate of interest.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.