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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 336. Certificates of stock; representation of stock of other corporations

Statutory text

After , no certificate evidencing the stock of any State member bank shall bear any statement purporting to represent the stock of any other corporation, except a member bank or a corporation engaged on , in holding the bank premises of such member bank, nor shall the ownership, sale, or transfer of any certificate representing the stock of any State member bank be conditioned in any manner whatsoever upon the ownership, sale, or transfer of a certificate representing the stock of any other corporation, except a member bank or a corporation engaged on in holding the bank premises of such member bank: Provided, That this subchapter shall not operate to prevent the ownership, sale, or transfer of stock of any other corporation being conditioned upon the ownership, sale, or transfer of a certificate representing stock of a State member bank.

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. Gold Reserve Act of 1934

    Pub. L. 73–6 § 9 · 48 Stat. 337

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 336

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 9 (par.), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 5(c), 48 Stat. 165

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 9 (par.), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 5(c), 48 Stat. 165

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. Section 3699 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 31, sec. R.S., sec. 3699, p. 731; U.S.C., p. 1024. 733) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 3699. The Secretary of the Treasury may anticipate the Anticipating interest payment on public debt. payment of interest on the public debt, by a period not exceeding one year, from time to time, either with or without a rebate of interest upon the coupons, as to him may seem expedient; and he may Sale of gold in public interest. sell gold in any amounts, at home or abroad, in such manner and at such rates and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem most advantageous to the public interest, and the proceeds of any gold so sold shall be covered into the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Treasury may sell the Proviso. Parity maintenance. gold which is required to be maintained as a reserve or as security for currency issued by the United States, only to the extent necessary to maintain such currency at a parity with the gold dollar.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this section”, meaning section 9 of act , which is classified generally to this subchapter (§ 321 et seq.).

Codification

Section is comprised of the twenty-first par. of section 9 of act , as amended. The twenty-first par. constituted the nineteenth par. of section 9 in 1933 (48 Stat. 165), became the twentieth par. in 1935 (49 Stat. 704), and became the twenty-first par. in 1950 (64 Stat. 458). For further details, see Codification notes set out under sections 321 and 329a of this title.

Amendments

1935—Act , among other changes, inserted proviso.

Credits

1913–1935 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 9 (par.), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 5(c), 48 Stat. 165
  2. 1935amended Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title III, § 310(b), 49 Stat. 710.
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(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 9 (par.), as added June 16, 1933, ch. 89, § 5(c), 48 Stat. 165; amended Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title III, § 310(b), 49 Stat. 710.)

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