1891 private laws – Ch.43 Sec.1

That R. M. Nimocks, W. S. Cook, B. R. Taylor, J. P. Thompson, C. W. Broadfoot, J. B. Broadfoot, H. W. Lilly, N. W. Ray, H. L. Cook, A. H. Slocumb, A. E. Rankin, F. W. Thornton, W. C. McDuffie, jr., A. J. Cook, E. C. Smith, B. R. Huske, Charles Hay, E. L. Pemberton, D. H. Ray, L. Shaw, J. W. McNeill, B. E. Ledberry, J. A. Hodges, Z. W. Whitehead, D. G. McMillan, W. J. McDonald, jr., G. A. Overbaugh, E. J. Lilly, jr., J. Schlossberg, E. H. Jennings, B. W. Townsend, H. R. Novitzky, W. B. Draughon, N. G. Wade, R. A. Tomlinson, H. I. McDuffie, J. D. Brown, A. Broadfoot, John Underwood, G. W. Lake, T. H. Sutton, John Averitt, W. T. Fisher, G. M. Rose, A. A. McKethan, jr., T. D. Haigh, H. R. Horne, A. B. Williams, C. L. Taylor, W. N. Williams, C. E. Pearce, H. J. Marsh, J. H. Marsh, W, A. Robeson, M. Currie, R. G. Haigh, W.S. Sheetz, G. A. Burns, J. A. Burns, J. M. McIver, C. W. Eliot, J. G. Hollingsworth, F. R. Rose, Q. K. Nimocks, J. P. Cook, A. D. McGill, their present and future associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of The Bank of Commerce, with its principal place of business at Fayetteville, North Carolina, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of the state, and shall have a continual succession for thirty years with capacity to take, hold and convey real and personal estate, and with all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities granted to any bank or banking institution by this or any preceding or subsequent legislation of this state, together with the rights, powers and privileges incident to or belonging to corporations as set forth or referred to in sections six hundred and sixty-three, six hundred and sixtyfour and six hundred and sixty-five of chapter sixteen of The Code, entitled Corporations. :