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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 4 — China Trade

§ 153. Dividends

Statutory text

Dividends declared by a China Trade Act corporation shall be derived wholly from the surplus profits of its business.

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. China Trade Act, 1922

    Pub. L. 67–346 § 13 · 42 Stat. 849

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 153

    (Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 13, 42 Stat. 853.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 13, 42 Stat. 853.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 13. dividends. Dividends declared by a China Trade Act corporation Dividends to be declared only from profits. shall be derived wholly from the surplus profits of its business.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 13, 42 Stat. 853.)

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