1810.094: Petition seeking Branch of Bank of Virginia in Lynchburg (A).
Published: 1810
Full Title: To the honorable ... General Assembly ... memorial of planters ... merchants ... of Campbell, Buckingham [22 counties in all] ...
Author: Planters and Merchants of Southwest Virginia.
Place Issued: Lynchburg
Issuing Press: James Graham
Description: 1 sheet [1 pg.]; 34 cm. x 21 cm. (broadside).
Notes
Petition here was evidently part of a concerted effort to expand the capitalization of the Bank of Virginia sufficient for creating a branch of that bank at Lynchburg; this petition was accompanied by like ones from the town of Lynchburg (1810.095) and the merchants there (1810.096); fundamental problem was that the bank's charter allowed only its current shareholders to make such decisions, so request entailed altering the bank's charter; as a result, this effort failed for want of support among the bank's friends in the Assembly. Sheet carries colophon: "Star-Office." The Lynchburg Star was published by James Graham, so the attribution here.
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