The Joint Stock Banks (Scotland) Act 1856
WHEREAS, under the Provisions of the Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-five, (whereby the Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirteen, was extended to Joint Stock Banks in Scotland,) Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, is empowered to grant Letters Patent of Incorporation to any Company of more than Six Persons who were carrying on the Business of Bankers in Scotland on or before the Ninth Day of Au...