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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 306. Assistants to Federal reserve agent

Statutory text

Subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal reserve agent shall appoint one or more assistants. Such assistants, who shall be persons of tested banking experience, shall assist the Federal reserve agent in the performance of his duties and shall also have power to act in his name and stead during his absence or disability. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall require such bonds of the assistant Federal reserve agents as it may deem necessary for the protection of the United States. Assistants to the Federal reserve agent shall receive an annual compensation, to be fixed and paid in the same manner as that of the Federal reserve agent.

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. Pub. L. 65–6 § 4 · 40 Stat. 38

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 306

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), as added June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 2, 40 Stat. 232

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), as added June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 2, 40 Stat. 232

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of par. 23 of section 4 of act , as added . For classification to this title of other pars. of section 4, see Codification note set out under section 301 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Section 203(a) of act , changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Credits

1913–1935 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), as added June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 2, 40 Stat. 232
  2. 1935amended Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.
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(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 4 (par.), as added June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 2, 40 Stat. 232; amended Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.)

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