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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

§ 356. Purchase of commercial paper from member banks and sale of same

Statutory text

Every Federal reserve bank shall have power to purchase from member banks and to sell, with or without its indorsement, bills of exchange arising out of commercial transactions, as hereinbefore defined.

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. 63–6 § 14(c) · 38 Stat. 103

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 356

    (Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 14(c), 38 Stat. 264.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 14(c), 38 Stat. 264.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of subsec. (c) of section 14 of act . For classification to this title of remainder of section 14, see Codification note under section 353 of this title.

Credits

(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 14(c), 38 Stat. 264.)

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