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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 6 — Foreign Banking

§ 604. Accounts of foreign branches; profit and loss

Statutory text

Every national banking association operating foreign branches shall conduct the accounts of each foreign branch independently of the accounts of other foreign branches established by it and of its home office, and shall at the end of each fiscal period transfer to its general ledger the profit or loss accrued at each branch as a separate item.

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 § 25 · 38 Stat. 103

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 604

    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is comprised of the sixth undesignated par. of section 25 of act , which comprises this subchapter. For classification of other pars. of section 25 of this Act, see Codification note under section 601 of this title.

The words “national banking association operating foreign branches” were in the original “such banking association”.

Amendments

1916—Act , substituted “accrued” for “accruing”.

Credits

1913–1916 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273
  2. 1916Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 461, 39 Stat. 756.
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(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 25 (par.), 38 Stat. 273; Sept. 7, 1916, ch. 461, 39 Stat. 756.)

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