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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 2 — National Banks

§ 194. Dividends on adjusted claims; distribution of assets

Statutory text

From time to time, the comptroller shall make a ratable dividend of the money so paid over to him by such receiver on all such claims as may have been proved to his satisfaction or adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction, and, as the proceeds of the assets of such association are paid over to him, shall make further dividends on all claims previously proved or adjudicated; and the remainder of the proceeds, if any, shall be paid over to the shareholders of such association, or their legal representatives, in proportion to the stock by them respectively held.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. R.S. § 5236

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 194

    R.S. § 5236

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 5236

  2. Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–325 title VI § 602(g)(12) · 108 Stat. 2160

    Struck · 12 U.S.C. § 194

    Pub. L. 103–325 struck out “, after full provision has been first made for refunding to the United States any deficiency in redeeming the notes of such association” after “From time to time”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–325 struck out “, after full provision has been first made for refunding to the United States any deficiency in redeeming the notes of such association” after “From time to time”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (12) Section 5236 of the Revised Statutes (12 U.S.C. 194) is amended by striking “, after full provision has been first made for refunding to the United States any deficiency in redeeming the notes of such association”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 5236 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 50, 13 Stat. 114, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–325 struck out “, after full provision has been first made for refunding to the United States any deficiency in redeeming the notes of such association” after “From time to time”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Application to District of Columbia

Provisions of this section were made applicable to banks, etc. in the District of Columbia by act Mar. 4, 1933, ch. 274, § 4, 47 Stat. 1567.

Executive Documents

Exception as to Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer of functions to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 of this title.

Credits

1994 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 5236
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–325, title VI, § 602(g)(12), , 108 Stat. 2294.
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(R.S. § 5236; Pub. L. 103–325, title VI, § 602(g)(12), , 108 Stat. 2294.)

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