Ordered, that Messrs. Williams, of Boston, Simmons, of Roxbury, and Peabody, of Salem, be a committee to consider and report to this House, the expediency of providing by law, that hereafter all directors, officers and clerks of the several banks in the Commonwealth, shall be required to make solemn oath, before a notary public, or a magistrate, that they will not during the time they are officially connected with the respective banks to which they are attached, either directly or indirectly, aid, consent to, or suffer, the taking or receiving any higher rate of interest, than that provided by law ...