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[CITE: 12USC23]

 
                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
                        CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL BANKS
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 23. Acknowledgment and filing of certificate

    The organization certificate shall be acknowledged before a judge of 
some court of record, or notary public; and shall be, together with the 
acknowledgment thereof, authenticated by the seal of such court, or 
notary, transmitted to the Comptroller of the Currency, who shall record 
and carefully preserve the same in his office.

(R.S. Sec. 5135.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5135 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, Sec. 6, 13 
Stat. 101, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this 
title.

                  Exception as to Transfer of Functions

    Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the 
Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer of 
functions to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 
of this title.
