Chap. 156.—An ACT to incorporate the Germania Bank of Richmond.
Approved March 18, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
M. L. Straus, H. Metzger, Herman C. Boschen, Charles Mill-
hiser, N. W. Nelson, H. Wenzel, Alois Rick, L. Wagner, Wil-
liam Pfeiffer, Theodore Frick, M. A. Rust, L. Heckman, C.
Zimmer, G. Klein and Herman Schmidt, together with such
other persons as are now or may hereafter be associated with
them, shall be and they are hereby constituted and made a
body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Ger-
mania Bank of Richmond, and by this name and style are
invested with all the rights, powers and privileges conferred,
and made subject to all the rules, regulations and restrictions
imposed by the Code of Virginia applicable to savings banks,
and not inconsistent with this act.

2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not be less
than twenty-five thousand dollars, nor more than two hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of twenty-
five dollars each.
3. The said company shall have power to receive money on
deposit and grant certificates therefor; to buy, sell, draw or
negotiate bills of exchange; to invest the money received on
deposit, and the other money of the company in, or lend the
same on stocks or other security, real or personal, or use the
same in purchasing or discounting bonds, bills, notes or other
paper; to guarantee the payment of notes, bonds, bills of
exchange or other evidences of debt. They may purchase
and hold a banking house and its appurtenances and the
ground necessary and convenient for the same, and such real
estate as may be bona fide mortgaged to the company as
security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously
contracted in the course of its dealings or purchased at sales
under decrees or other proceedings to enforce payment of such
debts. .

4, The said company may, With the consent of the parent
or guardian given in writing, if the deposits consist of the
personal earnings of said minor, receive deposits from any
minor; and whenever any such deposits sball have been
made, the said company may pay to such depositee such sum
as may be due to said minor; and the check, draft, receipt,
or acquittance of such minor sball be as valid as if the same
were executed by the parent or guardian of such minor, or
as if the said minor were of full age.

5. Deposits may also be received from married women from
their personal earnings; and the same ba repaid to them upon
their own check, draft or receipt; and any and all lawful by-
laws, rules, and regulations made by said company shall be
held to extend to and embrace such minors and married wo-
men as well as persons sui juris; and all deposits received by
said company from married women, shall be regarded as their
separate estate, and be free from the debts, liabilities, power
and control of their husbands.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage, and be subject
to amendment, alteration or modification, at the pleasure of
the general assembly.

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