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corporation, or the lands, tenements, goods or chattels of the same from being also liable for and chargeable with said excess. Such of said directors who may have been absent when said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act whereby the same was so contracted or created, may respectively exonerate themselves from being so liable by forthwith giving notice of the fact, and of their absence or dissent, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and to the stockholders at a general meeting which they shall have power to call for that purpose; and the body corporate, hereby created, and the capital stock thereof, shall be liable for all the debts and engagements contracted, or which, before or on the said fourth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and eleven, shall be contracted by the company or co-partnership heretofore created by the articles of association herein before mentioned, and which carried on the banking business under the name and style of “The President and Directors of the Bank of Washington;” and the creditors of the said co-partnership shall have the like remedy by action, against the said body corporate, as they had or have, or may or can have, against the said co-partnership.

. And be it further enacted, That in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold and make an election of directors, at a meeting to be called, in such manner as shall be prescribed by the laws and ordinances of the said corporation.

. And be it further enacted, That this act shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and held a public act, and be and continue in force for the term of ten years, from and after the fourth day of March, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and no longer.

, February 15, 1811.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the present subscribers to the Farmers’ Bank of Alexandria, as well as those who shall hereafter become subscribers to the same, their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby created a corporation and body politic by the name and style of the Farmers’ Bank of Alexandria; and by that name and style shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, posses, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, of what kind, nature or quality soever: and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien or dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record or any other place whatsoever, subject nevertheless to the rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations and provisions herein after prescribed and declared.

. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation may consist of five hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each; and subscriptions, towards filling up the remaining part of said stock not already subscribed, may be opened by the president and directors of the bank, at such times and places, and under such regulations, as they shall direct; and it shall be lawful for any person, a citizen of the United States, to subscribe; and it shall be the duty of the president and directors to give notice in two newspapers, or more, published in the district of Columbia, of the times and places of opening