Chap. 40.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act
entitled an act to amend the Charter and change the Name of the
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank of the City of Richmond.

Approved February 7, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to
amend the charter and change the name of the Merchants
and Mechanics savings bank of Richmond, approved Decem-
ber the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be
and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
-. $1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
James H. Gardner, Bernard Becher, William Ira Smith, M.
L. Straus, William G. Paine, Michael Rosenbaum, John C
Godden, Segmund Hirst, Philip J. Wright, Julius Sycles,
Francis T. Isbell, Moses Millhiser, and William K. Watts,
and such others as may be associated with them under this
act, be and they are hereby created and declared to be a
body corporate and politic, by the name and style of The
City Bank of Richmond, and by that name may sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts of law and
equity of this state or elsewhere, and have perpetual succes-
sion; to make and use a common seal, and the same to
break, alter, or renew at their pleasure; to ordain and pub-
lish such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations as they think
proper and wise, and generally to do every act and thing
necessary to carry into effect this act, or to promote the
object and design of this corporation: provided, that such’
by-laws, ordinances, regulations, and acts be not inconsistent
with the laws of this state or of the United States.

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