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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · February 28, 1885 · Chapter 264

Chapter 264.

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CHAP. 264.— AN ACT to authorize the increase of the capital stock of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago.February 28, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Commercial National Bank of Chicago.Increase of capital stock. That the Commercial National Bank of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock, in accordance with existing laws, to any sum not exceeding two millions of dollars, notwithstanding the limit heretofore fixed in its original articles of association and determined by the Comptroller of the Currency; and the Comptroller of the Currency is hereby authorized to fix Limit of increase.*Proviso*.the limit of the increase of the capital stock of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago at the amount of two millions of dollars: *Provided*, That two-thirds of the stockholders shall consent thereto.
Approved, February 28, 1885.
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