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An Act further to prohibit injuries to rail-roads and bridges. 1839 58 (1839.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0543 and id is 1 raw text is: 68 .Bank.-lnjuries to Rail-Roads. applications for discounts into three classes, the first class shall con- sist of all applications for sums of one thousand dollars and under, the second class for sums over one thousand dollars and not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and the third class for sums over ten thousand Lists or appl- dollars and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. It shall be the .-lon, thereon. duty of the banks to keep a list of all applications for discounts, the names of the parties thereto, endorsers and amounts, and the Loansto Individu. decisions thereon. No person or company shall, at any time, owe aiL or companies any one bank of this commonwealth as drawer or acceptor, a sum limited, exceeding fifty thousand dollars, nor as endorser, a greater sum than fifty thousand dollars. Lawn prohibiting 13. And be it further enacted, That all the laws now in force issue nd circuIe- designed to prohibit tie issue and circulation of a paper medium tion of small notes re-enforced, for sums less than five dollars, shall be and are hereby duclared to be in full force and effect, in all cases, in which such paper medium shall be for sums less than ten dollars, and all persons or bodies corporate violating the spirit of tuch acts, shall be subject to all Circulation or the pains and penalties therein imposed: Provided however, That Proaibnote no nothing herein shall be so construed as to prohibit tile circulation to bank issuing. of bank notes under the denomination of ten dollars, except by the bank or banks which shall have emitted or issued the same. Merchants and 1H. Be it firther enacted, That if the Bank of Virginia, and rcter, Bank or the Farmers Bank of Virginia, or either of them shall refuse to ac- Lynchburg, when subject to act. . cept the provisions of this act, and (if the act increaing the bank- ing capital of the commonwealth, passed March twenty-fifth, eigh. teen hundred and thirty-seven; and tile Merehants and Planters Bank of Lynchburg shall, in conformity therewith go into opera- tion, the said batik shall he subject to all the provisions of this act prescribing the regulations and government of the Bank of Vir- ginia, the Farmers Bank of Virginia, and the Bank of the Valley in Virginia. Commencnteent. 15. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof. CtP. 89.-An ACT to amend the acts concerning the banks of this'state. (Passed April 10, 1839.) Provision limiting 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That so much of any disnounts, Sus- pouded. act as requires that the amount of the loans and discounts of the banks of this commonwealth shall not exceed twice the amount of the capital stock thereof, shall be and the same is hereby suspended until the first day of January next. Commencenent. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Cm Er. D0.-An ACT further to prohibit injuries to rail-roads and bridges. (Passed April 5, 1839.) Injuries to rail- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That if any person or roads nod bridges, felo,,y, persons shall wilfully and maliciously burn, set fire to, cut, tear up or destroy any part of any rail-road now constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, or which may be partly constructed, by any company incorporated by the authority of the legislature of this commonwealth, or constructed by the commonwealth, or by any person or persons authorized by the legislature ; or any of the ne- cessary works, buildings, machines or bridges belonging, attached to, and used with, or as parts of such rail-road, of the value of one hundred dollars, every such person, his, her and their aiders and

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