Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee, Appointed by the House of Delegates, to Examine Into the Condition of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Greensborough: February 15, 1856 The committee then proceeded to the banking house and were met by Dr. G. W. Goldsborough one of the directors of said banlr, who on the part of the board of directors of said institution, stated to the committee that the board of directors protested against the right of the committee to examihe into the affairs of the bank, but at the same time invited them to make a full examination into the condition of the Institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.