JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVESNOR. 741

vivors and their successors in office, be and they
are hereby constituted and made a body corporate
and politic under the name and style of the Bank
of Centreville.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corpora-
tion, under the above name and style, is hereby
made able and capable in law to sue and be sued,	May sue and
plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered,	be sued.
defend and be defended, in courts of record or
any other place whatsoever ; to make, have and
use a common seal, and the same to break, alter
and renew at their pleasure, and generally to do
and execute, all and singular, such acts, matters
and things as a corporation or body politic may
and can lawfully execute.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the capital stock
of the Bank of Centreville, intended to be created	Capital stock
by this act, shall be seventy-five thousand dollars,
in shares of one hundred dollars each. Five dol-
lars shall be paid on each share of stock at the
time of subscribing, and the remainder in instal-
ments as the board of directors may determine
and require ; and privilege is hereby given to the
said corporation to increase the capital stock to
two hundred thousand dollars, by new subscrip-
tions or by adding to the said capital semi-annu-
ally a portion of its net profits not otherwise ap-
priated whenever it shall be so determined by the
board of directors.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the persons
named in the first section of this act be and they
are hereby appointed commissioners to receive	Who are com-
subscriptions to the capital stock of the said cor-	missioners.
poration, and they, or a majority of them, may
cause books to be opened at such times and places
as they may direct for the purpose of receiving
such subscriptions, and may keep the same open until the whole number of shares, amounting to seventy-five thousand dollars, shall be subscribed
for ; and when the sum of fifty thousand dollars
of stock shall have been subscribed, and twenty
thousand dollars paid thereon, then it shall be law-
ful for said bank to proceed in all things according
to this charter.