Petition asking Capital Increase and Branch Office of Bank of the Valley.

• imprint_number: 1818.127
• title: To the honorable the General Assembly ... petition of the subscribers, stockholders in the Bank of the Valley in Virginia ...
• sequence_number: 127
• year: 1818
• place_issued: Shepherdstown
• issuing_press: Robinson & Harper
• author: Stockholders in the Bank of the Valley in Virginia.
• notes: Petitioners sought an increase in the capitalization ($ 130,000) of the Bank of the Valley of Virginia in order to allow for opening a branch office in Shepherdstown. Despite a positive committee report on the petition, the resulting bill was defeated on January 27, 1819.
  Sheet lacks colophon; item carries a manuscript notation for December 14, 1818, the day it was received by the Assembly; at that time the only press in Shepherdstown was that of the firm of Robinson & Harper; as this title clearly was intended to benefit the residents of both Shepherdstown and surrounding Jefferson County, it undoubted issued from that press, so the attributions reported here; the first names of the partners have not been determined..
  
  
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