Bank of Scotland Act 1873
WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland passed in the fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Third, dated seventeenth July one thousand six hundred and ninety-five, intituled "Act for erecting a Publick Bank," the Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland were incorporated for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking, and were authorised to raise a capital stock of one hundred thousand pounds sterling: And whereas further powers of increasing their capita...