found: RLIN, Feb. 7, 1997(hdg.: Virginia. Loan Office; est. by act of Va. General Assembly in 1777; one of 13 state loan offices in the thirteen original states authorized by the Continental Congress; these loan offices were set up to receive subscriptions to the domestic loans for financing the Revolution; after the establishment of the federal government in 1789, Alexander Hamilton continued the loan office system in conjunction with his plan for funding the Revolutionary debt; in 1817 the duties and records of the state commissioners of loans were transferred to the Second Bank of the United States, which had been chartered in 1816, and the loan offices ceased to exist)
