Bank of Berryville provided note collection services as well as deposit-taking. This was an unsecured 120 day note, contracted for on June 13, 1876 and payable to Thomas Gold. Sometime between 1872 and 1878, problems began to appear in the accounting books of the Bank of Berryville. Concern spread throughout the County and resulted in a depositors’ meeting on December 27, 1877. Depositors strongly urged stockholders to name Mr. Ammashaddi Moore, Jr., a local attorney, as receiver of the bank, and his appointment was subsequently affirmed at the annual stockholder’s meeting held on January 3, 1878. The Clarke Courier editorialized that Mr. Moore “is well qualified for the important and laborious trust, and the recognition of his fitness by the depositors’ meeting is a compliment that he no doubt fully appreciates.” An injunction restraining Mr. Moore from acting as receiver was demanded by some of the investors and was subsequently granted by Judge Page who was the Clarke County court judge during that time. The injunction was argued in Clarke County Circuit Court by Judge Turner. The stockholders named Captain John R. Nunn Chairman of the Board and Mr. M. W. Jones, Jr. Secretary. Capt. Nunn proceeded to form a three-person committee consisting of Messrs. A. Moore, Jr., S. S. Thomas and D. T. Wood and charged them with ascertaining and reporting the amount of deposits in the Bank of Berryville. They reported the amount of time deposits at $16,000, although they also admitted that the figure was not an accurate one. On the same day, a stockholders’ meeting was held at the Board of Directors’ request with Mr. R. O. Allen presiding, for the purpose of discussing the problems that continued to plague the Bank of Berryville. The shareholders unanimously passed several resolutions in an effort to resolve the financial woes of the bank: 1st–Resolvedthattheassets,books,property,choresandeverything appertaining to the Bank of Berryville now in the custody of S. J. C. Moore, its president, or elsewhere, be by regular deed of assignment conveyed and transferred to a receiver, who is hereby directed to take